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'Blockhead!' said his brothers, 'what are you going to do with it?'

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'Blockhead!' said they, 'that is an old wooden shoe without the top!

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'Of course I shall!' returned Blockhead-Hans; and the brothers laughed and rode on a good way.

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here I am!' cried Blockhead-Hans; better and better-it is really famous!'

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'Oh,' said [316] Blockhead-Hans, 'it is really too good!

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'Of course it is!' said Blockhead-Hans, 'and it is the best kind!

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But the brothers rode on so fast that dust and sparks flew all around, and they reached the gate of the town a good hour before Blockhead-Hans.

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Now Blockhead-Hans came in; he rode his goat right into the hall.

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'That's good!' replied Blockhead-Hans; 'then can I roast a crow with them?'

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said Blockhead-Hans That was neatly done!

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said the Princess 'Oh, rather!' said Blockhead-Hans.

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'I've got that in my pocket!' said Blockhead-Hans.

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By each window do you see there are standing three reporters and an old editor, and this old editor is the worst, for he doesn't understand anything!' but she only said this to tease Blockhead-Hans.

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are those the great people?' said Blockhead-Hans.

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Blockhead-Hans became King, got a wife and a crown, and sat on the throne; and this we have still damp from the newspaper of the editor and the reporters-and they are not to be believed for a moment.

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"Crazy blockheads!" snapped the dwarf; "what's the good of calling anyone else?

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Contents PREFACE THE YELLOW FAIRY BOOK THE CAT AND THE MOUSE IN PARTNERSHIP THE SIX SWANS THE DRAGON OF THE NORTH STORY OF THE EMPEROR'S NEW CLOTHES THE GOLDEN CRAB THE IRON STOVE THE DRAGON AND HIS GRANDMOTHER HOW SIX MEN TRAVELLED THROUGH THE WIDE WORLD THE GLASS MOUNTAIN THE DEAD WIFE IN THE LAND OF SOULS THE WHITE DUCK THE WITCH AND HER SERVANTS THE MAGIC RING THE FLOWER QUEEN'S DAUGHTER THE FLYING SHIP THE SNOW-DAUGHTER AND THE FIRE-SON THE STORY OF KING FROST THE DEATH OF THE SUN-HERO THE WITCH THE HAZEL-NUT CHILD THE STORY OF BIG KLAUS AND LITTLE KLAUS PRINCE RING THE SWINEHERD HOW TO TELL A TRUE PRINCESS THE BLUE MOUNTAINS THE TINDER-BOX THE WITCH IN THE STONE BOAT THUMBELINA THE NIGHTINGALE HERMOD AND HADVOR THE STEADFAST TIN-SOLDIER BLOCKHEAD-HANS A STORY ABOUT A DARNING-NEEDLE THE YELLOW FAIRY BOOK THE CAT AND THE MOUSE IN PARTNERSHIP A cat had made acquaintance with a mouse, and had spoken so much of the great love and friendship she felt for her, that at last the Mouse consented to live in the same house with her, and to go shares in the housekeeping.

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BLOCKHEAD-HANS Far away in the country lay an old manor-house where lived an old squire who had two sons.

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All the servants stood in the courtyard and saw them mount their steeds, and here by chance came the third brother; for the squire had three sons, but nobody counted him with his brothers, for he was not so learned as they were, and he was generally called 'Blockhead-Hans.'

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'Oh, oh!' said Blockhead-Hans.

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I'll go to!' cried Blockhead-Hans; and the brothers laughed at him and rode off.

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'Dear father!' cried Blockhead-Hans, 'I must have a horse too.

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'Well,' said Blockhead-Hans, 'if I can't have a horse, I will take the goat which is mine; he can carry me!'

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Here I come!' shouted Blockhead-Hans, singing so that the echoes were roused far and near.

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'Hullo!' bawled Blockhead-Hans, 'here I am!

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'Blockhead!' said his brothers, 'what are you going to do with it?'

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'Blockhead!' said they, 'that is an old wooden shoe without the top!

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'Of course I shall!' returned Blockhead-Hans; and the brothers laughed and rode on a good way.

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here I am!' cried Blockhead-Hans; 'better and better-it is really famous!'

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'Oh,' said Blockhead-Hans, 'it is really too good!

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'Of course it is!' said Blockhead-Hans, 'and it is the best kind!

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But the brothers rode on so fast that dust and sparks flew all around, and they reached the gate of the town a good hour before Blockhead-Hans.

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Now Blockhead-Hans came in; he rode his goat right into the hall.

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'That's good!' replied Blockhead-Hans; 'then can I roast a crow with them?'

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'Oh, rather!' said Blockhead-Hans.

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'I've got that in my pocket!' said Blockhead-Hans.

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By each window do you see there are standing three reporters and an old editor, and this old editor is the worst, for he doesn't understand anything!' but she only said this to tease Blockhead-Hans.

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are those the great people?' said Blockhead-Hans.

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Blockhead-Hans became King, got a wife and a crown, and sat on the throne; and this we have still damp from the newspaper of the editor and the reporters-and they are not to be believed for a moment.

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'I don't want a blockhead like you to fight for me,' answered the king.

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'Oh, you fools and blockheads!' cried their wives, 'how could you ever believe for a moment that a goat would do the work of a servant-maid?

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When one of his comrades heard what had happened, he said, 'You blockhead, you can't have done it properly; just let me have a try,' and with these words he seized his wife by the roots of her hair, cut her throat with a razor, and then took the pipe and blew into it with all his might but he couldn't bring her back to life.

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but very few Knew any thing of it.-- And she is now going to be marry'd to the North Country Knight-- It wou'd be pity to speak of it-- She will pass upon him-- he's a very great Blockhead and She is good enough for him-- For he was not born in Wedlock himself.

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The wise Spartans, as an Encouragement to Ingenuity, always reward the thieving Genius, who came off unsuspected, and punish'd the Blockhead who had not Sufficient Art to Conceal his Theft, In Parnussus the Law is the same relating to Frauds in Play; Tho' it is notorious that this Gentleman has Play'd the best of the Game a thousand times, yet it does not Appear that he has ever been detected in a fraud.

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The Substance of it is, That he hath written a strange hotch-potch Farce, and puff'd it upon the Town as written after the manner of Aristophanes and the Pasquinades of the Italian Theatre.-- Gentlemen, This is an Affair entirely Cognizable to the Town; All I can Say upon it is, That, if you Condemn him, I will take Care the Blockhead shall never trouble you again-- In the manner of Aristophanes.

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And, like the Roman Censor, he will cry out with Patriot Ioy, What Pity 'tis, a Blockhead can be damn'd but once, to Please the Critics.

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It was he who told me the fact of the French having carried away the Portuguese ships, and he said that I might tell the Duke that he might make what use he pleased of it; but soon after, wishing if it did come out that it should fall harmless, he bethought him of the following expedient:--Seeing that Valletort (who is a good-natured blockhead) is always spluttering in the House of Commons, he thought in his hands it would do no harm, so he told him the fact with some flattering observations about his activity and energy in the House, which Valley swallowed and with many thanks proceeded to put questions to Palmerston, which sure enough were so confused and unintelligible that nobody understood him, and the matter fell very flat.

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As if we were all blockheads and egregious fools and could not see their logic as well as they!

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Paul is mortal enemy to the blockheads who make great boast, pretending to what they do not possess and to what they cannot do; who boast of having the Spirit in great measure; who are ready to counsel and aid the whole world; who pride themselves on the ability to invent something new.

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What hope that a blockhead would strike the exact middle of so fine a line?

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One burglary after another, and these Scots blockheads without a man to show for it.

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Do you suppose, you blockheads, that I am blind?

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If he is disposed to work for another out of his own free will, so that the latter may revel in the _dolce far niente_,--if he chooses to be such a blockhead, nothing hinders him.

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Herr Richter must take his readers for great blockheads to dare dish up such trash to them on the subject of our gold.

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I am not indeed a Huguenot, but neither am I a blockhead; and if the Pope play the fool too much, I will myself take Margot," his common nickname for his sister, "by the hand, and give her away in marriage in full prêche.

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'Confess, now, he was rather a blockhead,' remarked Bazarov lazily.

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"What a blockhead you are, to be sure!" he shouted, slapping his thighs.

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He struck his forehead with his clenched hand and called himself the most unflattering names he could think of, "fool, blockhead, idiot."

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There were certain ill-conditioned boatmen who almost always resisted, and who delighted to tell us--invariably, too, in very bad English--that our perquisite was properly the hangman's perquisite,[2] made over to us because we were _like him_; not seeing--blockheads as they were!--that the very admission established in full the rectitude of our claim, and gave to us, amid our dire perils and faithful contendings, the strengthening consciousness of a just quarrel.

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I bore mine, however, like a North American Indian, whereas my antagonist began to howl and cry; and I could not resist the temptation of saying to him in a whisper that unluckily reached the ear of the master, "Ye big blubbering blockhead, take that for a drubbing from me."

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One cause of the over-low estimate which the classical scholar so often forms of the intelligence of that class of the people to which our skilled mechanics belong, arises very much from the forwardness of a set of blockheads who are always sure to obtrude themselves upon his notice, and who come to be regarded by him as average specimens of their order.

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True, I had no high opinion of their merit, deeming them little more than equal to the average verses of provincial prints; but then I had intimated my scheme of getting them printed to a few Cromarty friends, and was now weak enough to be annoyed at the thought that my townsfolk would regard me as an incompetent blockhead, who could not write rhymes good enough for a newspaper.

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I said; "who cares anything for the ridicule of a blockhead?"

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_Frankly_ observes, on Cibber's declaration that he is not uneasy at Pope's satire, that "no blockhead is so dull as not to be sore when he is called so; and (you'll excuse me) if that were to be your own case, why should we believe you would not be as uneasy at it as another blockhead?

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For as it is not at all inconceivable, that a blockhead of my size may have a particular knack of doing some useful thing that might puzzle a wiser man to be master of, will not that blockhead still have something in him to be conceited of?

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If so, allow me but the vanity of supposing I may have had some such possible knack, and you will not wonder (though in many other points I may still be a blockhead) that I may, notwithstanding, be contented with my condition.

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They never suspected that "a blockhead of his size could do what wiser men could not," and, as a fine comic genius, command a whole province in human nature.

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Hill ventured to notice this attack on his "blockhead;" and, as was usual with him, had some secret history to season his defence with.

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Men of genius are more subject to "unnatural civil war" than even the blockheads whom Pope sarcastically reproaches with it.

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Let me show this to be the case by an experience which I had some years ago when Mr. Pierpont Morgan, Senior, was at the height of his glory, as the king of the great realm of big business, receiving homage on the one hand from the Rockefellers and Rothschilds, and on the other hand from the Blockheads and Henry Dubbs of all the world.

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'There is nothing wonderful in that,' said I; 'we are at the commencement of a philological age, every one studies languages; that is, every one who is fit for nothing else; philology being the last resource of dulness and ennui, I have got a little in advance of the throng, by mastering the Armenian alphabet; but I foresee the time when every unmarriageable miss, and desperate blockhead, will likewise have acquired the letter of Mesroub, and will know the term for bread, in Armenian, and perhaps that for wine.'

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My lady, who was behind him, said to him in a low voice, 'What are you doing, blockhead?

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