Hans Christian Andersen in Silhouettes 
The Fairy-tales Illustrated by Ei.se Hasselriis 
There was a knocking at the town gate, and 
the old king went out to open it. It was a 
princess who stood outside. 
The Princess on the Pea 
“Good-bye,” she said, and then she rose, 
light and clear as a bubble, up through the 
water. The sun had just set when she lifted 
her head above the sea, but all the clouds still 
shone like roses and gold. 
The Little Mermaid 
Her hot tears fell just on the spot where 
a rosebush lay buried, and when the warm tears 
moistened the earth the bush at once grew up 
as blooming as when it had sunk, and Gerda 
hugged it and kissed the flowers. 
The Snow Queen 
