1872 FAIRY TALES OF HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN WHAT THE OLD MAN DOES IS ALWAYS RIGHT by Hans Christian Andersen I WILL tell you a story that was told me when I was a littleboy. Every time I thought of this story, it seemed to me more and morecharming; for it is with stories as it is with many people- theybecome better as they grow older. I have no doubt that you have been in the country, and seen a veryold farmhouse, with a thatched roof, and mosses and small plantsgrowing wild upon it. There is a stork's nest on the ridge of thegable, for we cannot do without the stork. The walls of the houseare sloping, and the windows are low, and only one of the latter ismade to open. The baking-oven sticks out of the wall like a greatknob. An elder-tree hangs over the palings; and beneath itsbranches, at the foot of the paling, is a pool of water, in which afew ducks are disporting themselves. There is a yard-dog too, whobarks at all corners. Just such a farmhouse as this stood in a countrylane; and in it dwelt an old couple, a peasant and his wife. Smallas their possessions were, they had one article they could not dowithout, and that was a horse, which contrived to live upon thegrass which it found by the side of the high road. The old peasantrode into the town upon this horse, and his neighbors often borrowedit of him, and paid for the loan of it by rendering some service tothe old couple. After a time they thought it would be as well tosell the horse, or exchange it for something which might be moreuseful to them. But what might this something be? "You'll know best, old man," said the wife. "It is fair-dayto-day; so ride into town, and get rid of the horse for money, or makea good exchange; whichever you do will be right to me, so ride to thefair."
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