On leaving Rota Air Force Base, Spain on the morning of January 28, 2001, I boarded a bus in Rota, the city adjacent to the base. The bus itself, as I had discovered in the past in Europe, was a modern Mercedes, and served its purpose well on the way to Algeciras, Spain where I [...]

Three brothers and one sister lived together in a small cottage, and they loved one another dearly. One day the eldest brother, who had never done anything but amuse himself from sunrise to sunset, said to the rest, ‘Let us all work hard, and perhaps we shall grow rich, and be able to build ourselves [...]

Once upon a time there was a handsome black Spanish hen, who had a large brood of chickens. They were all fine, plump little birds, except the youngest, who was quite unlike his brothers and sisters. Indeed, he was such a strange, queer-looking creature, that when he first chipped his shell his mother could scarcely [...]