Here is a story of something that 

 was shown me when I was a little 

 boy. Every time I think of this 

 story it seems to me more and more 

 charming. For it is with some 

 stories as it is with many people 

 they become better as they grow 

 older. . . . And that something 

 which was told me when I was a 

 child, you shall hear too, and learn 

 that whatever an old man does, is 

 generally right. HANS CHRISTIAN 

 ANDERSEN, The Wife Perfect. 



