Hans Christian Andersen

We crossed paths with another literary giant in Denmark by the name of Andersen. I happen to have a copy of his fairy tales but I must say I don't think they are all his fairy tales.  Well the vast majority are his but I cannot think why he would need to copy some of the ideas from "The Arabian Nights" into his book of tales.  He has got plenty of his own ideas such as "The Ugly Duckling" , "The Emperor's New Clothes" and "The Little Mermaid" so why dress up a flying carpet as a flying trunk or have a Tinder Box instead of a lamp with a wish granting dog, instead of a wish granting genie? 
  After Ali Baba  stole his first batch of gold from the thieves, his wife wanted to measure it, so she went to her sister-in-law to borrow a measure. The sister-in-law placed suet in the bottom as she was curious to see what was being measured hoping some would stay stuck. In the tales, Little Claus borrowed a bushel measure from Big Claus.
 "What can he want with it? Big Claus thought; and he smeared some tar to the bottom of the bushel so that what ever was measured might stick to it.  Both of these resulted in coins being stuck to the bottom of the container.  Today you'd be in court contesting royalties but in those days I guess they didn't care.

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