![]() ![]() ![]() The next morning, the children after playing with the tin soldiers left the one-legged soldier in the window from where due to the wind, or as he believed, the goblin’s doing, he fell out into the street. As he tried to figure out a way to make acquaintance with her, out of the snuff-box emerged a little black goblin who warned the soldier and asked him to stop desiring what did not belong to him, namely, the ballerina who was way beyond his reach, but the soldier, mesmerized and bewitched in his love, paid no heed. Finding her to be as “different” as him, he instantly fell in love with her and decided at that very moment that he wanted to spend the rest of his life with her by his side. This one-legged soldier, as he looked around and saw all the other things, saw among those playthings a beautiful paper ballerina who had one of her legs raised so high that it appeared as if she too had only one leg. One amongst them was slightly different from the rest as being made at the very end, there was not enough metal left for him and hence, he had only one leg. Made out of the same tin spoon, all the twenty-five soldiers presented a royal picture as they stood straight in their splendid red and blue uniform. The story begins with the description of the tin soldiers received by a little boy on his birthday. ![]()
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