A boy Sigurd becomes cursed by a giantess and has to go through several trials to escape the many magical dangers in the kingdom. He meets a girl Helga and they live happily ever after.
"In the tents of Akbar, Are dole and grief to–day,"
Esmeralda awakes the following morning to see her rescuer silently watching her.
As Harry prepares to leave, he asks a favor of Oliver.
A father asks for his daughters to bring him lunch in the woods, but the birds eat up the trails he has left. The daughters each in turn find a small house with a little old man and three beasts. There they are tested.
We discover more about the robin. Mary and Colin are transformed into happy delightful children. Colin has opened the drapes in his room that covered his mother’s portrait.
Pip heads back to the marsh once again.
The story continues in its description of the cows and horses in the barnyard with anecdoctes from the children.
Still in pleasant surroundings, Black Beauty learns a few things about his lineage, and meets some of the other horses in the stables.
Two brothers serves as soldiers to a king.
Rosalie reveals her feelings about life and marriage.
An Irishman meets an enchanted princess and has to overcome obstacles to finally marry her.
Jorindel must rescue his bride to be from the spell of a fairy.
The speaker anticipates while others dread.
How a nixy helps a miller regain happiness.
While Curly went to school, Flop stayed home and played. He found a stone and gave it to his mom to use as a doorstop. A mean egg-dog comes by to eat his mom’s pies. The stone began to talk and explained that he was a frozen turtle. The turtle bit the dog and it ran away.
A spoiled princess befriends an enchanted frog.
A walk on the beach brings Agnes new hope.
With the help of a dwarf, a soldier achieves great fortunes.
The Twistytail family wait for Santa to arrive on Christmas Eve. The next morning the entire family opens their bountiful gifts. The author wishes the readers a merry christmas.
Du Bois discusses the period of history from 1861 to 1872, as it relates to the American Negro.
Chapter VI is a character study. It consists almost entirely of dialogue between Catherine and Isabella, and can be read as a companion chapter to Chapter III, which has Henry and Catherine interacting in the same style. In Chapter VI we see the development of the dynamic between Catherine and Isabella that will last for all of Book I.
This is a narrative of William Wells Brown's life and how he came out of slavery.
This is a poem about life from the focus of a widowed father and a wage earner (smithy) who works hard and steadily, earning from his effort.
Mary continues to look for the secret garden. Martha tells her more about it and about its history. The master’s wife used to climb a tree and fell from it one day causing her death. After that, the master locked the garden forever.