![]() The tin soldiers rattled in their box because they, too, wanted to be outside, but could not lift the lid. Then the toys started playing, dancing and fighting. ![]() When night fell, all the other tin soldiers got into their box and the people went to bed. He then hid behind a snuffbox lying on a table from where he could watch the gentle ballerina continue to stand on one leg without losing her balance. ![]() Still I must try and make her acquaintance." "That is the wife for me," he thought "but she is too grand, and lives in a castle, while I have only a box to live in, five-and-twenty of us altogether, that is no place for her. The beautiful paper girl had both arms outstretched because she was a ballerina, and the one-legged tin soldier immediately fell in love with her. She was cut out of paper, with a ballet dress of the finest muslin, a scarf of narrow blue ribbon around her shoulders, fastened in the middle with a glittering rose of golden paper, as large as her head. Everything was very beautiful, but the most beautiful was a little girl standing at the open door of the castle. ![]() In front of the castle stood small trees, and in front of a tiny mirror that served as a lake, on which wax swans swam. Other toys were arranged on the table on which the boy had placed them, but the most beautiful of all was a beautiful, small cardboard castle, with windows through which one could see the rooms. ![]()
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