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The little match girl

by H. C Andersen

Jan 14 • Clara MacGauffin

PURPLE CATERPILLARS AND GOLDEN BUTTERFLIES

There was once a land whose rulers were purple caterpillars.

Jan 13 • Clara MacGauffin

THE SNOW-CHILD.

(FROM THE RUSSIAN.)

Jan 12 • Clara MacGauffin

The Snow Daughter and the Fire Son

There was once upon a time a man and his wife, and they had no children, which was a great grief to them.

Jan 11 • Clara MacGauffin

The Snow, the Crow, and the Blood

One day in the dead of winter, when the snow lay like a linen tablecloth over the world, Jack, the King of Ireland’s son, went out to shoot.

Jan 10 • Clara MacGauffin

The Winter of the Blue Snow

Paul Bunyan is the outsized lumberjack-giant of North American tall-tale tradition: a camp legend whose strength is so impossible it turns everyday…

Jan 8 • Clara MacGauffin

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