THE SHOES OF FORTUNE (III)

THE SHOES OF FORTUNE (III) Tương tự truyện cổ Grim, truyển cổ Andersen cũng là 1 trong những tác phẩm nổi tiếng thế giới . đây là bản tiếng anh cảu bộ truyện này. | THE SHOES OF FORTUNE IV A Moment of Head Importance An Evening s Dramatic Readings A Most Strange Journey Every inhabitant of Copenhagen knows from personal inspection how the entrance to Frederick s Hospital looks but as it is possible that others who are not Copenhagen people may also read this little work we will beforehand give a short description of it. The extensive building is separated from the street by a pretty high railing the thick iron bars of which are so far apart that in all seriousness it is said some very thin fellow had of a night occasionally squeezed himself through to go and pay his little visits in the town. The part of the body most difficult to manage on such occasions was no doubt the head here as is so often the case in the world long-headed people get through best. So much then for the introduction. One of the young men whose head in a physical sense only might be said to be of the thickest had the watch that rain poured down in torrents yet despite these two obstacles the young man was obliged to go out if it were but for a quarter of an hour and as to telling the door-keeper about it that he thought was quite unnecessary if with a whole skin he were able to slip through the railings. There on the floor lay the galoshes which the watchman had forgotten he never dreamed for a moment that they were those of Fortune and they promised to do him good service in the wet so he put them on. The question now was if he could squeeze himself through the grating for he had never tried before. Well there he stood. Would to Heaven I had got my head through said he involuntarily and instantly through it slipped easily and without pain notwithstanding it was pretty large and thick. But now the rest of the body was to be got through Ah I am much too stout groaned he aloud while fixed as in a vice. I had thought the head was the most difficult part of the matter oh oh I really cannot squeeze myself through He now wanted to pull his over-hasty

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