Excerpt from Fairy Tales and Stories

Perhaps there never existed a more remarkable instance of the adapta tion of extraordinary circumstances to the purposes of a unique genius than was seen in the case of the early training of Andersen. His childish days had been spent in strange places, in still stranger company. He must have been about five years of age when he went with his parents to dine with the jailer of the common prison in Odense. Two prisoners waited at table.

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