Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian), 1805-1875, Dulcken, H. W. (Henry William), 1832-1894, Bayes, Alfred Walter, 1832-1909, ill · London : G. Routledge and Sons · leaf 413
e poor rose bush ! said the child. Take it, that it may bloomup yonder. And the angel took it, and kissed the child, and the little one halfopened his eyes. They plucked some of the rich flowers, but also tookwith them the despised buttercup and the wild pansy. Now we have flowers, said the child.… … THE SICK BOY AND THE LITTLE PLOWER. ashes, and sweepings, for it had been removal-day. There lay fragmentsof plates, bits of plaster, rags, and old hats, and all this did not lookwell. And the angel pointed amid all this confusion to a few fragmentsof a flower-pot, and to a lump of earth which had…
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