The Complete Fairy Tales & Other Stories
By Hans Christian Andersen - online book

Oxford Complete Illustrated Edition all his stories written between 1835 and 1872.

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SHEPHERDESS AND CHIMNEY-SWEEPER 335
that he could not help giving way to her, though it was foolish.                                                   
And so with much labour they climbed down the chimney again. And they crept through the pipe and the fire-box.
That was not pleasant at all. And there they stood in the dark stove ; there they listened behind the door, to find out what was going on in the room. Then it was quite quiet: they looked in—ah ! there lay the old Chinaman in the middle of the floor! He had fallen down from the