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HANS ANDERSEN'S FAIRY TALES
but unfortunately he is blind, he cannot see you. You must tell him the prettiest stories you know.'
But Tommelise did not care at all about pleasing their neighbour Mr. Mole, nor did she wish to marry him. He came and paid a visit in his black-velvet suit, he was so rich and so
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OH, HOW TERRIFIED WAS POOR TOMMELISE .
learned, and the field-mouse declared his domestic offices were twenty times larger than hers, but the sun and the pretty flowers he could not endure, he was always abusing them, though he had never seen either. Tommelise was called upon to sing for his amusement, and by the time she had sung 'Lady-bird, lady-bird, fly away home!' and 'The Friar of Orders
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