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A Christmas Greeting

H. C. Andersen

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Collection of Christmas short stories
d enough to be married. It is only a hundred human paces!"

"Well, then, let her come to him!" said the old ones; "he has a whole forest of burdocks, she has only a bush!"

And so they went and fetched little Miss Snail. It was a whole week before she arrived; but therein was just the very best of it, for one could thus see that she was of the same species.

And then the marriage was celebrated. Six earth-worms shone as well as they could. In other respects the whole went off very quietly, for the old folks could not bear noise and merriment; but old Dame Snail made a brilliant speech. Father Snail could not speak, he was too much affected; and so they gave them as a dowry and inheritance, the whole forest of burdocks, and said—what they had always said—that it was the best in the world; and if they lived honestly and decently, and increased and multiplied, they and their children would once in the course of time come to the manor-house, be boiled black, and laid on silver dishes. After this speech was made, the old ones crept into their shells, and never more came out. They slept; the young couple governed in the forest, and had a numerous progeny, but they were never boiled, and never came on the silver dishes; so from this they concluded that the manor-house had fallen to ruins, and that all the men in the world were extinct; and as no one contradicted them, so, of course it was so. And the rain beat on the dock-leaves to make drum-music for their sake, and the sun shone in order to give the burdock forest a color for their sakes; and they were very happy, and the whole family was happy; for they, indeed were so.






THE STORY OF A MOTHER




A mother sat there with her little child. She was so downcast, so afraid

Chad 12/01/2022
The Little Match Girl is the only story that could be considered a Christmas story.
Cait 12/31/2014
Some of the stories were a bit strange - like the one about the snails and the swallow. It didn't really have a point.

Lots of strong moral and religious messages.

None of the stories were particularly Christmassy. I think that perhaps it was a book that was intended to be given at Christmas rather th
France-Andrée 08/01/2013
It was a little disappointing, I didn't get the stories or what they were meant to represent. The morals of the stories weren't that easy to understand... It was interesting to read something by Hans Christian Andersen, but I'm asking myself if the text lost a lot in the translation? because it is h
Lillie 12/29/2012
These tales from yesteryear are written in a different style from today's writing. Writers today are told they must show, not tell, but the great classics like these Hans Christian Anderson Christmas stories have a lot more telling than showing. I enjoyed most of the stories--many I knew individuall

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