Top Of The World Stories For Boys And Girls

A story of adventure and danger among the Polar Eskimos.

This book is a collection of Scandinavian children's stories translated and illustrated by Emilie and Laura E. Poulsson. The book contains the following stories: Knut Spelevink, by Zacharias Topelius - The Princess Lingdagull, by Zacharias Topelius - Sikku and the Trolls, by Zacharias Topelius - Sampo Lappelil, by Zacharias Topelius - A Legend of Mercy, by Zacharias Topelius - Anton's Errand, or The Boy Who Made Friends By the Way, by Helena Nyblom - The Forest Witch, by Julius - The Testing of the Two Knights by Julius Krohn.

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"[...]to the beginning of the short cut, he thought: "Surely I should be a goose if I, with such an empty stomach, should walk seven miles instead of half that." And so he turned off into the short cut through Kiikkala Forest and determined to hear himself say the Catechism while he was going through the woods. He had not gone far before he saw a thin little old man, dragging a cart loaded with twelve iron bars. "Good-day, Knut Spelevink," said the old man. "Why do you look so poorly to-day?" "Why shouldn't I look poorly, when I have eaten nothing but Catechism since yesterday noon? But how did you know my new name?" "I know all names," answered the old man, who was really a troll.[...]".

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