Via Golden Age Comic Book Stories
The drawing shows an Andersen tale, Tommelise , English and Thumbelina Thumbelina in French.
" A woman was very anxious to have a baby, but not knowing how to get there, she went to an old witch and said," I wish I had a small child, tell me what it must be for that.
- This is not very difficult, "replied the witch; here a grain of barley that is not the kind that grows in the fields of peasant or eat the chickens. Put it in a flowerpot, and you'll see.
- Thank you, "said the woman, giving sixpence to the witch. Then she went home and planted the barley grain.
Soon she lives out of the ground a large beautiful flower like a tulip, but still in bud.
"What a pretty flower! "Said the woman, kissing on the red and yellow leaves, and at the same time the flower opened with a bang. We now saw that it was a real tulip, but in the interior on green background, sat a little girl, slim and charming, an inch high at most. Also was called Thumbelina.
She was cradled a well polished walnut shell; mattress of violet leaves, and cover for a rose leaf. She slept during the night but the day she was playing on the table, where the woman placed a plate full of water surrounded by a garland of flowers. In this dish was swimming great tulip leaf on which Thumbelina could sit and wander from one side to another, with two white horse-hair who acted as his oars. It thus offered a pretty sight, and then she could sing in a voice so sweet and melodious, they had never heard the like.
One night while she slept, an ugly toad entered the room through a broken window ... "
- This is not very difficult, "replied the witch; here a grain of barley that is not the kind that grows in the fields of peasant or eat the chickens. Put it in a flowerpot, and you'll see.
- Thank you, "said the woman, giving sixpence to the witch. Then she went home and planted the barley grain.
Soon she lives out of the ground a large beautiful flower like a tulip, but still in bud.
"What a pretty flower! "Said the woman, kissing on the red and yellow leaves, and at the same time the flower opened with a bang. We now saw that it was a real tulip, but in the interior on green background, sat a little girl, slim and charming, an inch high at most. Also was called Thumbelina.
She was cradled a well polished walnut shell; mattress of violet leaves, and cover for a rose leaf. She slept during the night but the day she was playing on the table, where the woman placed a plate full of water surrounded by a garland of flowers. In this dish was swimming great tulip leaf on which Thumbelina could sit and wander from one side to another, with two white horse-hair who acted as his oars. It thus offered a pretty sight, and then she could sing in a voice so sweet and melodious, they had never heard the like.
One night while she slept, an ugly toad entered the room through a broken window ... "
Hans Christian Andersen - Thumbelina , Tales, trans. David Soldi
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