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On his birthday, a boy receives a set of 25 toy soldiers all cast from one old tin spoon and arrays them on a table top. One soldier stands on a single leg, as having been the last one cast there was not enough metal to make him whole. Nearby, the soldier spies a paper ballerina with a spangle on her sash. She too is standing on one leg and the soldier falls in love. That night, a goblin among the toys in the form of a Jack-in-the-box angrily warns the soldier to take his eyes off the ballerina, but the soldier ignores him.

Le jour de son anniversaire, un petit garçon reçut une boîte de 25 soldats de plomb. L'un d'entre eux était un peu différent des autres car il n'avait qu'une seule jambe. Les soldats furent rangés sur une table, où il y avait beaucoup d'autres jouets. Le soldat de plomb qui n'avait qu'une jambe remarqua parmi eux une danseuse, qui se tenait gracieusement sur une seule jambe, et la croyant unijambiste comme lui, il pensa que ce jouet lui ferait une femme merveilleuse.

"The Tinder Box" is a literary fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen. A poor soldier returning home from war meets a witch who asks him to climb into a hollow tree to retrieve a magic tinder box. In the tree, he finds three chambers filled with precious coins guarded by three monstrous dogs, "one with eyes the size of teacups", who guards a vault filled with pennies, one with "eyes the size of water wheels", who guards a vault filled with silver, and one with eyes "the size of Round Tower", who guards a vault filled with gold.

Había una vez un soldadito hecho de plomo. Cuando los adultos lo hicieron, no tuvieron suficiente metal para sus dos piernas, así que solo tenía una. Estaba una vez parado en la habitación del niño que era su dueño y vio a una pequeña bailarina, parada en una pierna. El soldadito se enamoró de inmediato de ella, ya que era igual a él, pero había un juguete malvado que no los quería ver juntos.

Havia muitos brinquedos no quarto e o mais orgulhoso de tudo era o porco-mealheiro: ele se sentou em cima do guarda-roupa e sabia que, na barriga, tinha tudo o que precisava para comprar todos os outros brinquedos. Eles também sabiam disso, mas deixavam que o porco-mealheiro brincasse com eles assim mesmo.