“In the winter, when the fields were covered with snow, and the water filled with large blocks of ice which I had blown up to the coast,” continued the Wind, “great flocks of crows and ravens, dark and black as they usually are, came and alighted on the lonely, deserted ship. Then they croaked in harsh accents of the forest that now existed no more, of the many pretty birds’ nests destroyed and the little ones left without a home; and all for the sake of that great bit of lumber, that proud ship, that never sailed forth. I made the snowflakes whirl till the snow lay like a great lake round the ship, and drifted over it. I let it hear my voice, that it might know what the storm has to say. Certainly I did my part towards teaching it seamanship.

NEAR the shores of the great Belt, which is one of the straits that connect the Cattegat with the Baltic, stands an old mansion with thick red walls. I know every stone of it,” says the Wind. “I saw it when it was part of the castle of Marck Stig on the promontory. But the castle was obliged to be pulled down, and the stone was used again for the walls of a new mansion on another spot—the baronial residence of Borreby, which still stands near the coast. I knew them well, those noble lords and ladies, the successive generations that dwelt there; and now I’m going to tell you of Waldemar Daa and his daughters. How proud was his bearing, for he was of royal blood, and could boast of more noble deeds than merely hunting the stag and emptying the wine-cup. His rule was despotic: ‘It shall be,’ he was accustomed to say. His wife, in garments embroidered with gold, stepped proudly over the polished marble floors. The tapestries were gorgeous, and the furniture of costly and artistic taste.

"Ten steps from the porch and twenty steps from the rose bushes," growled Bluebeard in Jimmy's dream one night. "There be treasure there! Aawrgh."
So the next day Jimmy began to dig. He dug until the hole was deep and the dirt pile was high.
He kept digging. The hole got deeper and the dirt pile got higher.
He dug until the

An Archer, hunting in the woods, was so successful with his arrows that he killed many of the wild animals. This frightened the rest so much that they ran into the densest part of the bushes to hide. At last the Tiger stood up, and pretending to be very brave, told the other animals not to be afraid anymore, but to rely on his courage, and he would

Dear Mummy
by Katrina
Dear Mummy,
Oh, why did you send me here, Mummy?
It was so much better at home, Mummy
You have to do lessons all day, Mummy
And you hardly get any TV
Oh, and the other kids hate me, Mummy
And the teachers don't want me to talk, Mummy
I've got hours and hours of homework, Mummy
Th

On the tenth day after leaving Troy，Odysseus and his men came to an island，

Near China's northern borders lived a man well versed in the practices of Taoism.

there was once an artist whose name was Wen Tong. He was famous for his bamboo drawings.

Snake-like Reflection of a Bow in the Cup

there were two high mountains between Jizhou in the south and Heyang in the north.

A certain tailor had a son, who happened to be small

很久以前，在一个峭壁上有一个鹰巢，里面住着一只小鹰。

Long ago and far away, there lived an Emperor.

A king had three sons whom he loved equally well， and he did not know which of them to appoint as king following his own death.

远古时期的人们认为毛发、剪下的指甲和脱落的牙齿即使离开了人的身体，仍与其主人保持着神秘的联系

Everybody knew that this was Li Fucai of Baoshan.

The Shoes That Were Danced to Pieces

This is an interesting story from the Three Kingdoms period (220-280) in ancient China