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  "Ah, but I'm not a prisoner," remarked the fly, and away he flew.

  "Well, now I know the world," said the beetle to himself; "it's anabominable world; I'm the only respectable person in it. First, theyrefuse me my golden shoes; then I have to lie on damp linen, and tostand in a draught; and to crown all, they fasten a wife upon me.Then, when I have made a step forward in the world, and found out acomfortable position, just as I could wish it to be, one of thesehuman boys comes and ties me up, and leaves me to the mercy of thewild waves, while the emperor's favorite horse goes prancing aboutproudly on his golden shoes. This vexes me more than anything. Butit is useless to look for sympathy in this world. My career has beenvery interesting, but what's the use of that if nobody knowsanything about it? The world does not deserve to be made acquaintedwith my adventures, for it ought to have given me golden shoes whenthe emperor's horse was shod, and I stretched out my feet to beshod, too. If I had received golden shoes I should have been anornament to the stable; now I am lost to the stable and to theworld. It is all over with me."

  But all was not yet over. A boat, in which were a few young girls,came rowing up. "Look, yonder is an old wooden shoe sailing along,"said one of the younger girls.

  "And there's a poor little creature bound fast in it," saidanother.

  The boat now came close to our beetle's ship, and the younggirls fished it out of the water. One of them drew a small pair ofscissors from her pocket, and cut the worsted without hurting thebeetle, and when she stepped on shore she placed him on the grass."There," she said, "creep away, or fly, if thou canst. It is asplendid thing to have thy liberty." Away flew the beetle, straightthrough the open window of a large building; there he sank down, tiredand exhausted, exactly on the mane of the emperor's favorite horse,who was standing in his stable; and the beetle found himself at homeagain. For some time he clung to the mane, that he might recoverhimself. "Well," he said, "here I am, seated on the emperor's favoritehorse,- sitting upon him as if I were the emperor himself. But whatwas it the farrier asked me? Ah, I remember now,- that's a goodthought,- he asked me why the golden shoes were given to the horse.The answer is quite clear to me, now. They were given to the horseon my account." And this reflection put the beetle into a good temper.The sun's rays also came streaming into the stable, and shone uponhim, and made the place lively and bright. "Travelling expands themind very much," said the beetle. "The world is not so bad afterall, if you know how to take things as they come.

  THE END.

  1872

  FAIRY TALES OF HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN

  THE BELL

  by Hans Christian Andersen

  IN the narrow streets of a large town people often heard in theevening, when the sun was setting, and his last rays gave a goldentint to the chimney-pots, a strange noise which resembled the sound ofa church bell; it only lasted an instant, for it was lost in thecontinual roar of traffic and hum of voices which rose from thetown. "The evening bell is ringing," people used to say; "the sun issetting!" Those who walked outside the town, where the houses wereless crowded and interspersed by gardens and little fields, saw theevening sky much better, and heard the sound of the bell much moreclearly. It seemed as though the sound came from a church, deep in thecalm, fragrant wood, and thither people looked with devout feelings.

  A considerable time elapsed: one said to the other, "I reallywonder if there is a church out in the wood. The bell has indeed astrange sweet sound!

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