LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
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| She would go and sit on the broad marble steps, for it cooled her burning feet to bathe them in the water | 137 |
| He kissed her rosy mouth and played with her long hair | 137 |
| Gazed through the clear waters, and fancied she saw her father’s palace | 138 |
| She was fain to laugh and dance, though the thoughts of death were in her heart | 138 |
| She then saw her sisters rising out of the flood | 139 |
| Then jumped overboard, and felt her body dissolving into foam | 140 |
| The Girl who Trod on the Loaf | |
| Inger turned away, for she was ashamed to have for her mother a ragged woman who gathered sticks | 142 |
| Flung the loaf into the mud that she might step on it and come over dry-shod | 143 |
| But the worst of all was the horrible hunger which she felt | 143 |
| They told her story to the children, and the little ones called her “the wicked Inger” | 144 |
| “I do so wish she would!” said the little girl, and she was quite inconsolable | 145 |
| A peasant set up a pole close to the wall, and tied a sheaf of oats to the top | 145 |
| “There is a sea-swallow flying away over the sea,” said the children | 146 |
| The Constant Tin Soldier | |
| Though they had nearly trodden upon him they could not manage to find him | 148 |
| The boat flew past, and the rat followed | 149 |
| Everybody was desirous of seeing the celebrated man who travelled about inside a fish | 149 |
| When the maid raked out the ashes she found him in the shape of a tin heart | 151 |
| The Snow Queen | |
| He climbed up to the window | 151 |
| And she placed him beside her in the sledge, and wrapped the skin round him | 154 |
| A little house with strange red and blue windows | 155 |
| While she was eating, the old woman combed her hair with a golden comb | 156 |
| Gerda knew every flower | 156 |
| “I don’t understand anything about it,” said little Gerda | 157 |
| Little Gerda ran forth with bare feet into the wide world | 158 |
| “No—have you, though?” cried the little girl, and had nearly hugged the crow to death, so fondly did she kiss him | 159 |
| She began to sing a song which ran thus; “Wherefore shouldn’t I marry?” | 160 |
| And when they approached the throne where sat the Princess, they found nothing to say | 161 |
| On the third day there came marching cheerfully along towards the palace a little body, who had neither horse nor coach | 162 |
| And he was pleased with her, and she with him | 163 |
| Gazed at Gerda, who curtsied | 163 |
| Horses with flying manes appeared like shadows on the wall | 164 |
| The coach was amply stored inside with sweet cakes, and under the seat were fruit and gingerbread nuts | 164 |
| “Oh, la!” screamed the woman | 165 |
| By that time they had reached Lapland | 166 |
| The Finlandish woman’s intelligent eyes twinkled, though she said nothing | 167 |
| Little Gerda then repeated the Lord’s Prayer | 168 |
| But he sat quite motionless, stiff and cold | 169 |
| There emerged from it a beautiful horse | 169 |
