. The black aunt. Stories and legends for children . hold any she started for the house and came to an openspot in the woods; there she saw a snow drop under atree and as she was tired with walking and stooping somuch she sat down by the snow drop and laid her loaddown beside her. As she sat there looking at the flowershe said: «dear little snow drop what a pretty greendress you wear and how splendid it makes you never freeze like me poor child in my ragged dressand the bad woman will never give me such a beautifullittle white cap as yours.» Saying this she laid her little h
. The black aunt. Stories and legends for children . hold any she started for the house and came to an openspot in the woods; there she saw a snow drop under atree and as she was tired with walking and stooping somuch she sat down by the snow drop and laid her loaddown beside her. As she sat there looking at the flowershe said: «dear little snow drop what a pretty greendress you wear and how splendid it makes you never freeze like me poor child in my ragged dressand the bad woman will never give me such a beautifullittle white cap as yours.» Saying this she laid her little head down on -thebundle of sticks and began again to weep bitterly till atlast she wTent to sleep. Then she had a dream and sawa gentle wind moving the snow drop and listened as it-began softly to ring and tinkle like a bell. The othersnow drops which were still asleep under the groundheard the ringing and rubbed their eyes open andstretched their limbs and came out into the daylight andopening their bells began also to ring softly with silvery 11. tones so that the wood was full of the strange, sweetechoes. But little Mary did not wake up again from herbeautiful dream but went dreaming to her father andmother in heaven. The next day as they went to look for her theyfound her dead, surrounded by blooming snow dropsand the snow drops had covered her after her deathwith their green leaves. THE COCKEREL AND THE HENS. here was once a great farm yard in which there liveda splendid looking Cockerel with his wives, a whole flockof hens, black and white, grey and brown, both withand without crests. They all lived in great peace andharmony, for every thing went well with them and everyday they got a large pile of barley corns for their foodOnly one thing troubled them, that their eggs were al-ways taken away and they hardly ever could bring upa brood of chickens. The hens had often hid their nests,sometimes in the woodshed, sometimes in the barn, sothat the eggs might not be found, and
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