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Hans Christian Andersen's Tales: The Constant Tin Soldier
From: Great Works of Literature
Date: 19920101
Author:Andersen, Hans Christian
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The Constant Tin Soldier
There were once five-and-twenty tin soldiers; they were all brothers, for they had all been born of one old tin spoon. They shouldered their muskets and looked straight before them; their uniform was red and blue, and very splendid. The first thing they had heard in the world, when the lid was taken off their box, had been the words "Tin soldiers!" These words were uttered by a little boy, clapping his hands; the soldiers had been given to him, for it was his birthday; and now he put them upon the table. Each soldier was exactly ...
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