![]() ![]() And mind you take the big basket with you for the flowers.’ “‘Why, what a good heart you have’! cried his Wife ‘you are always thinking of others. “Well,” said the Linnet, hopping now on one leg and now on the other, “as soon as the winter was over, and the primroses began to open their pale yellow stars, the Miller said to his wife that he would go down and see little Hans. I have all kinds of beautiful sentiments myself, so there is a great sympathy between us.” He spoke of the matter at great length, and I am sure he must have been right, for he had blue spectacles and a bald head, and whenever the young man made any remark, he always answered ‘Pooh!’ But pray go on with your story. I heard all about it the other day from a critic who was walking round the pond with a young man. “Every good story-teller nowadays starts with the end, and then goes on to the beginning, and concludes with the middle. ![]() “Then you are quite behind the age,” said the Water-rat. “Certainly not,” answered the Linnet, “that is the beginning.” “Is that the end of the story?” asked the Water-rat. However, he was so young that you must excuse him.” ![]()
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