Full text: Tales and fairy stories

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ANDERSEN'S TALES. 
This was likely to prove a pretty joke for the soy 
in case it returned, and, in all probability, went ¢, 
seek for its body in East-street, and could not fing 
Most likely, it would have applied first to the police. 
and next repaired to the directory office, that inquiries 
might be made for it amongst other lost articles; ang 
lastly, have found its way to the hospital. However. 
we may comfort ourselves with the conviction that the 
soul is wisest when acting on its own impulse; the 
body alone makes it stupid. . 
As before said, the watchman’s body was carried t, 
the hospital, where it was taken into a room to be 
cleaned, when, naturally, the first thing they did wag 
to take off the galloshes, thereby forcing his soul to 
return. It immediately took the straightest road to 
its earthly tenement, and in a couple of seconds the 
poor man had revived. He assured the bystanders 
that this had been the most dreadiul night in his 
existence : he would not take two gold pieces to be 
obliged to undergo such sensations over again. Hov- 
ever, luckily, it was over now. 
He was discharged that same day, but the galloshes 
remained in the hospital. 
IV.—AN EVENTFUL MOMENT.—A VERY UNUSUAL 
JOURNEY. 
Every inhabitant of Copenhagen knows what the 
entry to Frederick’s-hospital is like; but as it 1s pro- 
bable that some non-residents in that town may read 
this little tale, we will give a short description of its 
appearance. 
The hospital is divided from the street by a rather 
high iron railing, the bars of which are so wide asu* 
der, that, it is said, very slim fellows have squeeze 
themselves through, and gone to pay their visis It 
the town. The part of the body most difficult to get 
through was the head; so in this, as in most cas 
in the world, the little heads were the best off. Thus 
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