When I was brushing the queen’s hair, I told her what I saw by the lake. A handsome man in a suit of green satin came down to the water and got in a boat. He rowed over to the island where the princess lives in her castle, out of the queen’s reach....
I’m not a big fellow like my eleven brothers. I’m just a little guy. My brothers work in the fields and the forest with my father, while I stay home with my mother. My father is getting old and weak now, and my brothers are biting at the bit to go and seek...
I hadn’t laughed in such a long time. There was nothing to laugh about. Then this fellow came along holding a goose, and he seemed to be stuck to it, and then the person behind him had become stuck to him, and the person behind him, and so on until there were...
Last night I took an axe and chopped off the head of my stepdaughter while she was sleeping. I thought, ‘Ha, now there will be no more fuss about who gets all the pretty things. My daughter will get them all!’ This morning, I called upstairs for my girl....
