THE BRAVE TIN SOLDIER
1872
FAIRY TALES OF HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN
THE BRAVE TIN SOLDIER
by Hans Christian Andersen
THERE were once five-and-twenty tin soldiers, who were all
brothers, for they had been made out of the same old tin spoon. They
shouldered arms and looked straight before them, and wore a splendid
uniform, red and blue. The first thing in the world they ever heard
were ...