English Fairy Tales Collected by Joseph Jacobs Chapter 21: Childe Rowland Childe Rowland and his brothers twain Were playing at the ball, And there was their sister Burd Ellen In the midst, among them...
English Fairy Tales Collected by Joseph Jacobs Chapter 12: Teeny-Tiny Once upon a time there was a teeny-tiny woman lived in a teeny-tiny house in a teeny-tiny village. Now, one day this teeny-tiny...
English Fairy Tales Collected by Joseph Jacobs Chapter 11: Cap O' Rushes Well, there was once a very rich gentleman, and he'd three daughters, and he thought he'd see how fond...
English Fairy Tales Collected by Joseph Jacobs Chapter 39: The Ass, the Table, and the Stick A lad named Jack was once so unhappy at home through his father's ill- treatment, that he made up...
English Fairy Tales Collected by Joseph Jacobs Chapter 3: The Rose-Tree There was once upon a time a good man who had two children: a girl by a first wife, and a boy by the second. The girl was as...
English Fairy Tales Collected by Joseph Jacobs Chapter 4: The Old Woman and Her Pig An old woman was sweeping her house, and she found a little crooked sixpence. "What," said she,...
SENSE AND SENSIBILITY by Jane Austen (1811) Chapter 23 However small Elinor's general dependence on Lucy's veracity might be, it was impossible for her on serious reflection to suspect...
SENSE AND SENSIBILITY by Jane Austen (1811) Chapter 33 After some opposition, Marianne yielded to her sister's entreaties, and consented to go out with her and Mrs. Jennings one morning for...
English Fairy Tales Collected by Joseph Jacobs Chapter 7: Nix Nought Nothing There once lived a king and a queen as many a one has been. They were long married and had no children; but at last a...
CHAPTER 32 Elizabeth was sitting by herself the next morning, and writing to Jane while Mrs. Collins and Maria were gone on business into the village, when she was startled by a ring at the door, the...