


1872
fairy tales of hans christian1 andersen
a great grief
by hans christian andersen
this story really consists of two parts. the first part might be left out, but it gives us a few particulars, and these are useful we were staying in the country at a gentleman's seat, where it happened that the * was absent for a few days. in the meantime, there arrived from the next town a lady; she had a pug dog with her, and came, she said, to dispose of shares in her tan-yard. she had her *s with her, and we advised her to put them in an envelope, and to write thereon the address of the proprietor2 of the estate,"general war-commissary knight,"