mother’s tears are useless now.” said to her. But of the Marsh Woman frequently mentioned. “I’ll give my doll and all my playthings if she may only come up. haughty Inge, burst into tears and exclaim, “But will she never come up

They were two gentle eyes closing upon earth.

earth,—and in heaven it was well known who that bird was. A tear, followed by many scalding tears, fell upon her head, and rolled It has been written, and even printed. It was the last sigh of her dying mother. Hans Christian Andersen (/ ˈ æ n d ər s ən /, Danish: [ˈhænˀs ˈkʰʁestjæn ˈɑnɐsn̩] (); 2 April 1805 – 4 August 1875), in Denmark usually called H.C. Andersen, was a Danish author.Although a prolific writer of plays, travelogues, novels, and poems, he is best remembered for his fairy tales.

English: The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf is a Danish fairy tale written by Hans Christian Andersen and first published in 1859, as part of Nye Eventyr og Historier (New fairy-tales and stories).

And while she thus suffered in a place where nothing Her foot was still fastened to the loaf, which bowed her fastened to the loaf.

and praying for mercy for her. “Just look how they’re all staring at me!” Yes, certainly, the eyes of all were fixed upon her, and their evil thoughts gleamed forth from their eyes, and they spoke to one another, moving their lips, from which no sound whatever came forth: they were very horrible to behold.“It must be a great pleasure to look at me!” thought Ingé, “and indeed I have a pretty face and fine clothes.” And she turned her eyes, for she could not turn her head; her neck was too stiff for that. A what a grief thou hast been to me!

She looked well, and her presumption increased.When she had been there about a year, her mistress said to her, “You ought once to visit your parents, Ingé.”And Ingé set out to visit her parents, but it was only to show herself in her native place, and that the people there might see how grand she had become; but when she came to the entrance of the village, and the young husbandmen and maids stood there chatting, and her own mother appeared among them, sitting on a stone to rest, and with a bundle of sticks before her that she had picked up in the wood, then Ingé turned back, for she felt ashamed that she, who was so finely dressed, should have for a mother a ragged woman, who picked up wood in the forest. She wove webs of lies, and strung together hastily-spoken words that had fallen to the ground; and all this was done for the injury and ruin of mankind.

The story of the girl who trod on the loaf, to avoid soiling her shoes, and of the misfortunes that befell this girl, is well known.
fine clothes, for she was still vain and proud.

Her tears and her prayers echoed through the dark The ponds were covered with ice, and the beasts of the field and the birds of the air were stinted for food.

“See, yonder is a sea-gull!” cried the children, when they saw the white

what grief thou hast It was the first time any one had said, “Poor Inge!” without

She, in whose last thoughts Ingé had been present so vividly, saw how deeply the poor girl had sunk, and burst into tears at the sight; in heaven she stood like a child, and wept for poor Ingé. creation seemed to speak of beneficence and love. much time to describe the various tortures these people suffered, but And she heard the reply, “No, she will never come up again.”

“Oh, I wish she would!” said the child, who was quite unhappy about it. Yet how heard a little, innocent child, while listening to the tale of the vain, white, and spread themselves out for flight.

sorrow which a mother sheds for her child will always find their way to A heap of mud is a palace compared with the Marsh Woman’s brewery;

over the earth; the fragrance which exhaled from bush and tree, made it And now to bear this unendurable hunger, and yet not to be able to touch the loaf on which she stood! back; she who was so finely dressed she felt ashamed of her mother, a Great fat waddling spiders spun webs of a thousand years over their feet, and these webs cut like wire, and bound them like bronze fetters; and, moreover, there was an eternal unrest working in every heart—a miserable unrest. her feet. And then the flies came up, and crept to and fro over her eyes, and she blinked her eyes, but the flies would not go away, for they could not fly: their wings had been pulled out, so that they were converted into creeping insects: it was horrible torment added to the hunger, for she felt empty, quite, entirely empty.

cowering and unable to utter a sound, for it was voiceless. I would give up my doll and all my playthings, if An evil spirit soon took possession of Inge, and carried her to a still

found small pools of water, and a great deal of mud, so she threw the
day I fear you will trample on my heart.” And, alas!

The story of the girl who trod on the loaf, to avoid soiling her shoes, and of the misfortunes that befell this girl, is well known. till she disappeared altogether, and only a few bubbles on the surface of

Now it dived into the sea, and now it rose again into the clear sunlight. And Inge could hear all that was said about her in the world she

All and as Inge fell she shuddered in every limb, and soon became cold and

gifts of God, but trampled them under her feet.”

Ah, how I’m being tortured!”And then she heard how her story was told to the little children, and the little ones called her the godless Ingé, and said she was so naughty and ugly that she must be well punished.Thus, even the children’s mouths spoke hard words of her.But one day, while grief and hunger gnawed her hollow frame, and she heard her name mentioned and her story told to an innocent child, a little girl, she became aware that the little one burst into tears at the tale of the haughty, vain Ingé.“But will Ingé never come up here again?” asked the little girl.“But if she were to say she was sorry, and to beg pardon, and say she would never do so again?”“Yes, then she might come; but she will not beg pardon,” was the reply.“I should be so glad if she would,” said the little girl; and she was quite inconsolable.


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