As pretty as seven, and other popular German tales. [With] Little One Eye, and other stories, by the brothers Grimm

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Seite 336 - Stepmother was always contriving how to inflict an additional burden, and make her daughter's life more intolerable. One day the Stepmother said to the Girl, " Here are twelve pounds of quills for you to strip, and remember if you are not ready with them by this evening you will get a good beating. Do you think you are to idle all day ?" The poor Girl set to work, while the tears rolled fast down her cheeks, for she saw that it was impossible to finish her work by the time. Every now and then as...
Seite 300 - ... nothing to eat but what they leave. To-day they have given me so little that I am still quite hungry.

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