![]() The soldier climbed up the tree, went through the hole, then lowered himself down to the bottom, and found himself, just as the witch had said, in a large hall where hundreds of lamps were burning. Just bring me the old tinderbox that my grandmother forgot the last time she went down there.” “No,” the witch said, “but I won’t ask you for a single penny. “But what am I supposed to give you? You’re not telling me all this for nothing.” “That’s not a bad deal,” said the soldier. He is quite a dog, believe me! But don’t be scared, put him on my apron and he won’t hurt you, and take as much gold as you want.” But the dog on this chest has eyes as big as wagon wheels. “But if you’d rather have gold, you can have that too, as much as you can carry just go into the third room, where there’s another chest full of gold. Put him on my apron, and then take as much money as you want. ![]() “If you’d rather have silver coins, you’ll have to go into the second room, where you’ll find a dog with eyes as big as dinner plates. I’ll give you my blue-checked apron spread it on the floor, then grab the dog, put him on my apron, open the chest, and take as much money as you want. “When you enter the first room, you’ll see a large chest in the middle of the floor, and on it there will be a dog with eyes as big as clocks. The keys are in the locks, so you’ll be able to open them. It will be very bright, with hundreds of lamps burning. “When you reach the bottom, you’ll find yourself in a large hall. “But what am I supposed to do once I’m down there in the tree?” the soldier asked. I’ll tie a rope around your waist, and I’ll pull you up again when you tell me to.” With her Amish parents twentieth anniversary approaching, eighteen-year-old Sylvia Miller stumbles across a surprise-the old brass tinderbox her clockmaker father keeps in his Lancaster County shop has been left unlocked. When the king and queen learn where their daughter is, the soldier is arrested and sentenced to death. He orders one dog to bring him a sleeping princess from her parents' castle. The tinderbox can summon three magic dogs that will do what the soldier wants them to do. If you climb to the top, you’ll see a hole, and you can crawl through the hole and lower yourself down to the bottom. 9.79 109 Used from 1.36 37 New from 4.98. A soldier steals a magic tinderbox from an old witch. “Do you see that big tree over there?” the witch said, pointing. “Thank you, old witch,” said the soldier. Now I’ll show you how to get as much money as you could ever want.” “What a fine sword you have, and what a big knapsack! You look just the way a soldier should. She was very ugly, and her lower lip hung down to her breast. file was created for early learners of English as a second language by A Telling Story Productions. A soldier came marching along the road: left, right! left, right! He had his knapsack on his back and a sword at his side, because he had been to the war and now he was on his way home.Īs he marched along, he met an old witch on the road. Hans Christian Andersen The Tinderbox Audio Story.
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