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安徒生童话英文版,经典童话故事100篇,安徒生童话全集在线听,安徒生童话故事全集书,安徒生童话英文版pdf,安徒生童话黑暗原版txt,安徒生童话中英文版pdf,安徒生童话双语版,安徒生童话英文版长篇,安徒生童话英文版简单FAIRY TALES OF HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN
                                 A GREAT GRIEF
                           by Hans Christian Andersen
    THIS story really consists of two parts. The first part might be
left out, but it gives us a few particulars, and these are useful
    We were staying in the country at a gentleman's seat, where it
happened that the master was absent for a few days. In the meantime,
there arrived from the next town a lady; she had a pug dog with her,
and came, she said, to dispose of shares in her tan-yard. She had
her papers with her, and we advised her to put them in an envelope,
and to write thereon the address of the proprietor of the estate,
"General missary Knight," &c.
    She listened to us attentively, seized the pen, paused, and begged
us to repeat the direction slowly. plied, and she wrote; but
in the midst of the "General War-" she struck fast, sighed deeply, and
said, "I am only a woman!" Her Puggie had seated itself on the
ground while she wrote, and growled; for the dog e with her for
amusement and for the sake of its health; and then the bare floor
ought not to be offered to a visitor. His outward appearance was
characterized by a snub nose and a very fat back.
    "He doesn't bite," said the lady; "he has no teeth. He is like one
of the family, faithful and grumpy; but the latter is my
grandchildren's fault, for they have teased him; they play at wedding,
and want to give him the part of the bridesmaid, and that's too much
for him, poor old fellow."
    And she delivered her papers, and took Puggie upon her arm. And
this is the first part of the story which might have been left out.
    PUGGIE DIED!! That's the second part.
    It was about a week afterwards we arrived in the town, and put
up at the inn. Our windows looked into the tan-yard, which was divided
into two parts by a partition of planks; in one half were many skins
and hides, raw and tanned. Here was all the apparatus necessary to