THE LITTLE ELDER-TREE MOTHER
1872
FAIRY TALES OF HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN
THE LITTLE ELDER-TREE MOTHER
by Hans Christian Andersen
THERE was once a little boy who had caught cold; he had gone out
and got wet feet. Nobody had the least idea how it had happened; the
weather was quite dry. His mother undressed him, put him to bed, and
ordered the teapot to be brought in, that she might make him a g ...