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The Old House

Story Time 73

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The Old House

By: Hans Christian Andersen
Narrated by: Robin Nixon
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In the street, up there, was an old, a very old house - it was almost three hundred years old, for that might be known by reading the great beam on which the date of the year was carved: together with tulips and hop-binds there were whole verses spelled as in former times, and over every window was a distorted face cut out in the beam. The one story stood forward a great way over the other; and directly under the eaves was a leaden spout with a dragon's head; the rain-water should have run out of the mouth, but it ran out of the belly, for there was a hole in the spout...

Public Domain (P)2022 Bookstream GmbH
Classics Fairy Tales, Folk Tales & Myths

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