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Title: The Bookshelf for boys and girls Little Journeys into Bookland
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: University Society, New York
Subjects: Children's literature Children's encyclopedias and dictionaries Literature Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York : University Society
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University-Idaho

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nt him to another school, where,among the scholars, was a tiny girl who toldHans once that her ambition was to be a dairy-maid at a large country house. You shall be a dairymaid at my castle when Iam a gentleman, said the boy in jest, and hedrew upon his slate a rough picture of what hiscastle was like. The little fairies of the brainwere already at work prompting him to tellstrange stories about himself. So he went on toassure the little scholar that he was really ofnoble birth, but that the fairies had changed himin his cradle. The girl was very matter-of-fact,and she only replied to his fanciful tale by turn-ing to some playmates and exclaiming, He ismad, like his grandfather. Alas, it was true hisgrandfather was weak-witted, and this unhappyreception of one of his earliest efforts to tell afairy story must have filled the sensitive boy withdread. It would be quite a long story if we were tofollow the incidents of Hans Andersens life,though everything concerning this strange genius
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GEORGE MACDONALD. HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN. JAKOB AND WILHELM GRIMM. 89 90 WRITERS OF FAIRY STORIES would be well worth telling. We can only, how-ever, mention a very few of the facts of his life.His father died when the lad was eleven, andeven at that age he had made very poor use ofhis schooling, dreaming and idling his time away. HOW HANS ANDERSEN WENT OUT TOMAKE A FORTUNE It was not very long before he had a stepfather,and soon he had to think of making his way in theworld by going to Copenhagen, the capital of hiscountry. It was all because of having appearedon the stage of the theater at Odense in a verytiny part in Cinderella, and having written aboyish play which he thought good enough forthe stage, that long, dreamy Hans, the laughing-stock of all the lads of Odense, set off on thecoach, with a little bundle packed by his mother,and the sum of thirty-seven shillings in hispocket, to seek fame and fortune in Copenhagen;but many a sad and hungry day he was to havebefore he was f

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