The Leap-Frog
By Hans Christian Andersen
A Flea, a Grasshopper, and a Leap-frog once wanted to see which could jump highest; and they invited
the whole world, and everybody else besides who chose to come to see the festival. Three famous jumpers were
they, as everyone would say, when they all met together in the room.
"I will give my daughter to him who jumps highest," exclaimed the King; "for it is not so amusing where
there is no prize to jump for."
The Flea was the first to step forward. He had exquisite manners, and bowed to the company on all
sides; for he had noble blood, and was, moreover, accustomed to the society of man alone; and that makes a
great difference.
Then came the Grasshopper. He was considerably heavier, but he was well-mannered, and wore a green
uniform, which he had by right of birth; he said, moreover, that he belonged to a very ancient Egyptian family,
and that in the house where he then was, he was thought much of. The fact was, he had been just brought out of
the fields, and put in a pasteboard house, three stories high, all made of court-cards, with the colored side
inwards; and doors and windows cut out of the body of the Queen of Hearts. "I sing so well," said he, "that
sixteen native grasshoppers who have chirped from infancy, and yet got no house built of cards to live in, grew
thinner than they were before for sheer vexation when they heard me."
It was thus that the Flea and the Grasshopper gave an account of themselves, and thought they were
quite good enough to marry a Princess.
The Leap-frog said nothing; but people gave it as their opinion, that he therefore thought the more; and
when the housedog snuffed at him with his nose, he confessed the Leap-frog was of good family. The old
councilor, who had had three orders given him to make him hold his tongue, asserted that the Leap-frog was a
prophet; for that one could see on his back, if there would be a severe or mild winter, and that was what one
could not see even on the back of the man who writes the almanac.
"I say nothing, it is true," exclaimed the King; "but I have my own opinion, notwithstanding."
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