小学五年级英语童话故事：Thumbelina

2021年1月26日发(作者：guanxi)
小学五年级英语童话故事：
Thumbelina



Once upon a time...



There was once a woman who wanted to have quite a tiny,
little child, but she did not know where to get one from. So
one day she went to an old Witch and said to her
：
'I should
so much like to have a tiny, little child; can you tell me
where I can get one?'



'Oh, we have just got one ready!' said the Witch. 'Here
is a barley-corn for you, but it's not the kind the farmer
sows in his field, or feeds the cocks and hens with, I can
tell you. Put it in a flower-pot, and then you will see
something happen.'



'Oh, thank you!' said the woman, and gave the Witch a
shilling, for that was what it cost. Then she went home and
planted the barley- corn; immediately there grew out of it a
large and beautiful flower, which looked like a tulip, but
the petals were tightly closed as if it were still only a bud.



'What a beautiful flower!' exclaimed the woman, and she
kissed the red and yellow petals; but as she kissed them the
flower burst open. It was a real tulip, such as one can see
any day; but in the middle of the blossom, on the green
velvety petals, sat a little girl, quite tiny, trim, and
pretty. She was scarcely half a thumb in height; so they
called her Thumbelina. An elegant polished walnut-shell
served Thumbelina as a cradle, the blue petals of a violet
were her mattress, and a rose-leaf her coverlid. There she
lay at night, but in the day-time she used to play about on
the table; here the woman had put a bowl, surrounded by a