tailieunhanh - THE SNOW QUEEN - FIRST STORY. and SECOND STORY

THE SNOW QUEEN FIRST STORY. - SECOND STORY Tương tự truyện cổ Grim, truyển cổ Andersen cũng là 1 trong những tác phẩm nổi tiếng thế giới . đây là bản tiếng anh cảu bộ truyện này. | THE SNOW QUEEN FIRST STORY. Which Treats of a Mirror and of the Splinters Now then let us begin. When we are at the end of the story we shall know more than we know now but to begin. Once upon a time there was a wicked sprite indeed he was the most mischievous of all sprites. One day he was in a very good humor for he had made a mirror with the power of causing all that was good and beautiful when it was reflected therein to look poor and mean but that which was good-for-nothing and looked ugly was shown magnified and increased in ugliness. In this mirror the most beautiful landscapes looked like boiled spinach and the best persons were turned into frights or appeared to stand on their heads their faces were so distorted that they were not to be recognised and if anyone had a mole you might be sure that it would be magnified and spread over both nose and mouth. That s glorious fun said the sprite. If a good thought passed through a man s mind then a grin was seen in the mirror and the sprite laughed heartily at his clever discovery. All the little sprites who went to his school for he kept a sprite school told each other that a miracle had happened and that now only as they thought it would be possible to see how the world really looked. They ran about with the mirror and at last there was not a land or a person who was not represented distorted in the mirror. So then they thought they would fly up to the sky and have a joke there. The higher they flew with the mirror the more terribly it grinned they could hardly hold it fast. Higher and higher still they flew nearer and nearer to the stars when suddenly the mirror shook so terribly with grinning that it flew out of their hands and fell to the earth where it was dashed in a hundred million and more pieces. And now it worked much more evil than before for some of these pieces were hardly so large as a grain of sand and they flew about in the wide world and when they got into people s eyes there they stayed and then