The Wonderful Adventures of Nils. Selma Lagerlöf
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Selma Lagerlöf
The Wonderful Adventures of Nils
Translator: Velma Swanston Howard
e-artnow, 2020
Contact: [email protected]
EAN 4064066057725
Table of Contents
THE GREAT CRANE DANCE ON KULLABERG
THE STAIRWAY WITH THE THREE STEPS
THE STORY OF KARR AND GRAYSKIN
OSA, THE GOOSE GIRL, AND LITTLE MATS
THE PARTING WITH THE WILD GEESE
THE BOY
THE ELF
Sunday, March twentieth.
Once there was a boy. He was—let us say—something like fourteen years old; long and loose-jointed and towheaded. He wasn't good for much, that boy. His chief delight was to eat and sleep; and after that—he liked best to make mischief.
It was a Sunday morning and the boy's parents were getting ready to go to church. The boy sat on the edge of the table, in his shirt sleeves, and thought how lucky it was that both father and mother were going away, and the coast would be clear for a couple of hours. "Good! Now I can take down pop's gun and fire off a shot, without anybody's meddling interference," he said to himself.
But it was almost as if father should have guessed the boy's thoughts, for just