THE SNOW-QUEEN
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And now we will hear all about it.
In a large town, where there were so many people and houses that there was not room enough for everybody to
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have gardens, lived two poor children. They were not brother and sister, but they loved each other just as much as if they were. Their parents lived opposite one another