Posts Tagged ‘Hans Christian Andersen’

  So a year passed, and the emperor, the court, and all the other Chinese knew every little turn in the artificial bird’s song; and for that same reason it pleased them better. They could sing with the bird, which they often did. The street-boys sang "Zi-zi-zi, cluck, cluck, cluck, cluck," and the emperor himself…

The Nightingale Part 1   A story to celebrate our animal theme, by a master teller of fairytales – Hans Christian Andersen.   In China, you know, the emperor is a Chinese, and all those about him are Chinamen also. The story I am going to tell you happened a great many years ago, so…