Hans Andersen's Love Story

-I was on Andersen 's journey through Fu non and Jutland that ha met a young girl with whom he feil deeply in love but who, unfortunately, at the sam time was engaged to another man Andersen never met another woman whom he could love aa he loved this girl and remained unmarried all his life Many years later a peasant girl, who hac heard about him as a greut and world renowned poet, whom all men honored - and who, I believe, had alao read some of his stories - took it into her head tha he was the one man she wanted to mar ry. So she started out for Copenhagen where Andersen was then living, went t his house, and told him her errand. You can imagine how astonished he mus have been at being told by a yonng handsome girl that she wished to marry him. "I should be so very good to you, " said she, ' 'and always take good care of you. " But, my dear girl, I don't wish to bemarried," answered he ; and she departed as suddenly as she had come. - St. fichólas, "What, is the matter, sir ?" said a surgeon to his patiënt. "Well, I have eaten some oysters, and I suppose they have disagreed with me." "Have you eaten auything else?" "Well, no - why, yes, I did, too ; that ia, I took for my tea a minee pie, four bottles of ale and two glasses of gin, and I have eaten the oysters since, and I really believe the oysters were not good for me "