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title: The Fir Tree — Andersen's Fairy Tales · full text with trees · page 3
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# The Fir Tree · page 3

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- [201](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/10/201/) — “'Tis over--'tis past!” said the poor Tree.
- [202](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/10/202/) — “Had I but rejoiced when I had reason to do so!
- [203](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/10/203/) — But now 'tis past, 'tis past!”
- [204](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/10/204/) — And the gardener's boy chopped the Tree into small pieces; there was a whole heap lying there.
- [205](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/10/205/) — The wood flamed up splendidly under the large brewing copper, and it sighed so deeply!
- [206](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/10/206/) — Each sigh was like a shot. — checked by a teacher
- [207](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/10/207/) — The boys played about in the court, and the youngest wore the gold star on his breast which the Tree had had on the happiest evening of his life.
- [208](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/10/208/) — However, that was over now--the Tree gone, the story at an end.
- [209](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/10/209/) — All, all was over--every tale must end at last.

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