The Wild Swans By Hans Christian Andersen Listen to the story  The Wild Swans far away in the land to which the swallows fly when it is winter, there was the king who had 11 sons and one daughter named Eliza; the 11 brothers were princes, and each went to school with a star on his breast and a sword by his side. They rowed with diamond pencils on gold slates and learned the lesson so quickly and read so easily that everyone might know they were princes their sister Eliza sent on a little stool, a plate-glass, and a book full of pictures which had cost as much as half a kingdom, oh these children were indeed happy, but it was not to remain…