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The first words that they heard in this world, when the lid of the box in which they lay was taken off, were: 'Hurrah, tin-soldiers! This was exclaimed by a little boy, clapping his hands; they had been given to him because it was his birthday, and now he began setting them out on the table.
Can anyone really believe this of The Absolute playing like a child, with men and women, worlds and suns, as Its blocks and tin-soldiers? Why should the Infinite "play"? does It need amusement and "fun" like a child? Poor Man, with his attempts to read the Riddle of the Infinite!
But I must make her acquaintance. Then he stretched himself out behind a snuff-box that lay on the table; from thence he could watch the dainty little lady, who continued to stand on one leg without losing her balance. When the night came all the other tin-soldiers went into their box, and the people of the house went to bed. Then the toys began to play at visiting, dancing, and fighting.
Olof married a good-looking nobleman, and that is the end of the story. There were once upon a time five-and twenty tin-soldiers all brothers, as they were made out of the same old tin spoon. Their uniform was red and blue, and they shouldered their guns and looked straight in front of them.
The tin-soldiers rattled in their box, for they wanted to be out too, but they could not raise the lid. The nut-crackers played at leap-frog, and the slate-pencil ran about the slate; there was such a noise that the canary woke up and began to talk to them, in poetry too! The only two who did not stir from their places were the Tin-soldier and the little Dancer.
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