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Cornelli

CHAPTER VI
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So they both became what they had wished.
"But the copper pan, who had been used to the cosy fire, began to shake and freeze when the ice filled her whole inside.

Her teeth were chattering while she looked about to see if she could discover a little fire anywhere.

But nobody ever brought any burning spark near her.

She suffered the bitterest hunger besides, because she had been used to quite different nourishment from fat morsels roasting in her insides.
Now she had to swallow little lumps of ice and nothing else.

She was not a bit pleased with shining outside and in, for she had to think all the time: how terrible it is to starve and freeze to death.
"The tea kettle meanwhile was standing on a beautifully set table.
Many splendidly dressed young ladies and gentlemen were sitting around him and drinking tea out of fine china cups, and eating from lovely gold-rimmed plates.


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