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Title: Oral and written English
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Potter, Milton Chase, 1873- Jeschke, Harry Jewett, 1873- Gillet, Harry O. (Harry Orrin), b. 1879
Subjects: English language
Publisher: Boston : Ginn
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LETTER . ENDING Your affectionate friend, Charles Dickens A STORY OF A MANS LIFE 33 3. Write an answer to the letter that you wrote yourteacher, in section 16. As if you were the teacher, ex-plain in your answer why it seems best not to dismissschool. Or shall you grant the request, so that thechildren may all go to the circus ? 18. A Story of a Mans LifeHANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN Hans Christian Andersen, poet and writer of fairy tales, wasborn in Denmark, April 2. 1805. His parents were poor, andthe whole family livedin one little room.His father, a shoe-maker, was not strongenough to do muchwork. When Hanswas eleven years oldhis father died; andnow the boy, who hadalways found his fatherglad to listen to hisqueer little stories, wasleft much to himself.He built himself atoy theater, and sewedclothes for the dollactors in it, and madeup plays for them.He read all the books ^^^ christian mndersen he could borrow, and it is said that he even read the plays ofShakespeare at this early age.
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34 ORAL AND WRITTEN ENGLISH At length the time came for Hans to decide what to do tomake his Uving. His friends advised him to become a tailor, buthe did not listen to them, and one fine day, with hardly a pennyin his pocket, he started for the capital of Denmark, Copenhagen,of whose beauty and wonders he had heard all his life. But Hans had a hard time of it at Copenhagen. He couldfind no work. Everybody thought him a strange lad. Therewere many days when he did not have enough to eat. At lasttwo kind musicians at the Royal Theater became interested inhim; then a poet became his friend; and finally the king him-self, having heard of the boy and of a little book he had written,agreed to send him to the great grammar school near by, in orderthat he might be better prepared to write, which was the workthat he had now chosen for himself. Strange to say, Hans Andersen wrote a number of books be-fore he discovered that he could write fairy tales best of all. Thefirst of these tales were wr

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