1 But the little Fir wanted so very much to be a grown-up tree.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE FIR TREE 2 In autumn the wood-cutters always came and felled some of the largest trees.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE FIR TREE 3 Thus passed many years, and he was now an old man, and sat with his old wife under the blooming tree.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE ELDERBUSH 4 But whether the sound came from his head or from the hollow tree, that no one could say with certainty.
5 He flew into a tree, and beat his black wings as long as he could see the carriage, that shone from afar like a sunbeam.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE SNOW QUEEN 6 The lights of the Christmas tree rose higher and higher, she saw them now as stars in heaven; one fell down and formed a long trail of fire.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE LITTLE MATCH GIRL 7 However, he said that the sound proceeded from a very large owl, in a hollow tree; a sort of learned owl, that continually knocked its head against the branches.
8 When Christmas came, quite young trees were cut down: trees which often were not even as large or of the same age as this Fir Tree, who could never rest, but always wanted to be off.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE FIR TREE 9 At the end of a year he had shot up a good deal, and after another year he was another long bit taller; for with fir trees one can always tell by the shoots how many years old they are.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE FIR TREE 10 Now there she was sitting under the most magnificent Christmas tree: it was still larger, and more decorated than the one which she had seen through the glass door in the rich merchant's house.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE LITTLE MATCH GIRL 11 So there they both sat, like a king and a queen, under the fragrant tree, that looked exactly like an elder: the old man told his wife the story of "Old Nanny," as it had been told him when a boy.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE ELDERBUSH 12 Out of the spout even did they spread themselves on all sides, and grew larger and larger; it was a splendid Elderbush, a whole tree; and it reached into the very bed, and pushed the curtains aside.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE ELDERBUSH 13 She then sat down and wept; but her hot tears fell just where a rose-bush had sunk; and when her warm tears watered the ground, the tree shot up suddenly as fresh and blooming as when it had been swallowed up.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE SNOW QUEEN 14 They had great-grand-children, and were soon to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of their marriage; but they could not exactly recollect the date: and old Granny sat in the tree, and looked as pleased as now.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE ELDERBUSH 15 And the swineherd went behind a tree, washed the black and brown color from his face, threw off his dirty clothes, and stepped forth in his princely robes; he looked so noble that the Princess could not help bowing before him.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE SWINEHERD 16 Woodroof and anemonies grew almost too high; blooming convolvuluses and blackberry-bushes hung in long garlands from tree to tree, where the nightingale sang and the sunbeams were playing: it was very beautiful, but it was no place for girls to go; their clothes would get so torn.
17 This happened every year; and the young Fir Tree, that had now grown to a very comely size, trembled at the sight; for the magnificent great trees fell to the earth with noise and cracking, the branches were lopped off, and the trees looked long and bare; they were hardly to be recognised; and then they were laid in carts, and the horses dragged them out of the wood.
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