*** E-text prepared by Juliet Sutherland, Karen Lofstrom, Tom Allen, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team PERSIAN LITERATURE comprising THE SHÁH NÁMEH, THE RUBÁIYÁT THE DIVAN, AND THE GULISTAN Revised Edition, Volume 1 1909 With a special introduction by RICHARD J. H. GOTTHEIL,

How little Karen was adopted by a lady, and how she came by her red shoes CHAPTER SECOND.

Karen grows vain of her red shoes, and is forced to dance over the fields, across the bridges, and everywhere CHAPTER THIRD.

How Karen tried to go to church again, how she prayed and was sorry, and how an angel came to comfort her, and how happy she became NAUGHTY MARIAN MORNING HOUR THE CHIMNEY-SWEEP PLEASANT AMUSEMENTS THE CAGED BIRD ~THE YOUNG GLEANER.~ CHAPTER FIRST.

On the very day her mother was buried Karen received the red shoes, and wore them for the first time.

Now Karen was old enough to be confirmed by the bishop, and that she might be ready to go to the church, the old lady had new clothes made for her, and took her to the rich shoemaker's in the city to select some shoes.

" "Yes, they shine," said Karen, "and I should be delighted to have them!"

And all the people in the church looked at Karen's red shoes, and all the pictures; and as Karen knelt before the altar and raised the cup to her lips, she only thought of the red shoes, and they seemed to swim in it; and she forgot to sing her psalm, and she forgot to pray, "Our Father, who art in heaven!"

Karen raised her foot to get in after her, when the old soldier said "Look, what beautiful dancing-shoes!"

And Karen could not help dancing a step or two, and when she began, her feet continued to dance; it was just as if the shoes had power over them.

The clear sunshine streamed warmly through the window into the pew where Karen sat.

* Hans Christian Andersen is an excellent allegorist, and has very ingeniously woven together a most interesting fabric in this story of Karen, who, I am sure, every child cannot fail to see is a fabulous heroine.

BLIXEN, KAREN.

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SEE HORNEY, KAREN.

SEE HORNEY, KAREN.

DE WOLF, KAREN. Take the laughter.

Karen De Wolf (A); 20Mar68; R431969.

SEE Horne, Berry H. HORNEY, KAREN.

BLIXEN, KAREN.

SEE BLIXEN, KAREN.

GILLESPIE, KAREN R. Know your merchandise.

By Karen VanLissel.

Karen VanLissel (A); 13Dec73; R565975.