THE LAST PEARL
1872
FAIRY TALES OF HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN
THE LAST PEARL
by Hans Christian Andersen
WE are in a rich, happy house, where the master, the servants, the
friends of the family are full of joy and felicity. For on this day
a son and heir has been born, and mother and child are doing well. The
lamp in the bed-chamber had been partly shaded, and the windows were ...