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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
| The more he talked to the boatmen the more incomprehensible they appeared to him | 238 |
| “Excuse me,” said the councillor of justice to the landlady | 239 |
| “How are you now?” said the landlady, pulling the councillor’s sleeve | 240 |
| Just as he was going out, the company perceived his intention, and seized him by the feet | 241 |
| The lieutenant felt this to be the case, and therefore leant his head against the window frame and sighed deeply | 243 |
| He found himself on one of the countless circular ranges of mountains that we see in Dr. Madler’s large map of the moon | 244 |
| The young fellow then filliped his nose, which made him lose his balance | 245 |
| The first heart he entered was a lady’s, but at first he fancied he had got into an orthopædic institution | 246 |
| Her husband’s portrait served as a weathercock | 247 |
| The attendant uttered a loud exclamation at the sight of a man in all his clothes | 248 |
| Close by stood a boy, striking with a stick in a swampy ditch | 250 |
| At the same moment the skirts and sleeves of his coat became wings, his clothes turned to feathers, and his goloshes to claws | 251 |
| They purchased the bird for eightpence, and so the clerk returned to Copenhagen | 251 |
| Lovely half-naked children were tending a herd of coal-black swine, under a knot of fragrant laurels | 254 |
| The shrivelled arms and the monotonous whines of “Miserabili eccelenza!” came in much faster than the breezes | 255 |
| She drew the goloshes off his feet, when the sleep of death ended, and he once more revived | 256 |
| Holger Danske | |
| As the old man sat talking, he was carving a large wooden figure representing Holger Danske | 258 |
| The first flame led him into a dark and narrow prison, where sat captive a beautiful woman | 259 |
| “But what you have carved is very fine, grandfather,” said she | 260 |
| The Fir Tree | |
| They would often bring a pipkin full of berries and seat themselves near the little fir tree | 261 |
| “We know, we know,” twittered the sparrows, “for we have looked in at the windows in yonder town!” | 262 |
| At length the tapers were lit, and a grand sight it was, to be sure | 263 |
| Told the story of Humpty-Dumpty, who fell downstairs | 264 |
| The little mice were fit to jump to the top of the tree with delight | 265 |
| “Your servant,” answered the rats, and they returned back to their own sets | 265 |
| The youngest ran and tore off the gold star. “See what is sticking to the ugly old fir tree,” said the child | 266 |
| So the children left off playing, and came and sat near the fire | 267 |
| Little Tuk | |
| And Tuk ran off and helped her | 269 |
| Large streams of water sprang from the cliff, and close by sat an aged king with a golden crown on his white hair | 270 |
| What the Moon Saw | |
| Up and down danced the flame, but yet kept alight, and the dark eyes dwelt longingly upon it as it went | 272 |
| The hen was terrified, and made a great to do, spreading her wings to protect her chicks | 272 |
| She dropt her head, and her eyes brimmed with tears | 273 |
| Motionless she sat, as I looked at her, her hands in her lap | 273 |
| She knelt down and kissed the purple | 274 |
