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Stories

Thumbelina lived a comfortable,
contented life with the old woman.
At night, she slept in a cradle made of a
pretty polished walnut shell, with blue violet
leaves as her mattress and a rose petal for her
cover. During the day, she sailed about in a saucer
of water with a large tulip leaf as her boat.
Then, one night, everything changed. A fat mother toad
hopped through a broken window into the house and landed right
beside the sleeping Thumbelina.
”What a beautiful wife she would make for my toad son!”
exclaimed the mother. So she picked up the sleeping Thumbelina
and carried her away to the garden outside.
There she spoke to her son of her plans. “Don’t make a noise or
you will waken and frighten her,” said the mother toad.

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