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Hans Christian Andersen's Tales: The Wild Swans
From: Great Works of Literature
Date: 19920101
Author:Andersen, Hans Christian
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The Wild Swans
Far away, where the swallows fly when our winter comes on, lived a King who had eleven sons, and one daughter named Eliza. The eleven brothers were Princes, and each went to school with a star on his breast and his sword by his side. They wrote with pencils of diamond upon slates of gold, and learned by heart just as well as they read; one could see directly that they were Princes. Their sister Eliza sat upon a little stool of plate-glass, and had a picture-book which had been bought for the value of half a kingdom.
O, the children were ...
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