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«The golden key» in Spanish

La llave de oro

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✒ Author
📖 Pages1
⏰ Reading time 10 minutes
💡 Originally published1815
🌏 Original language German
📌 Type Fairy tale
📌 Genres Children's literature, Adventure, Parable

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La llave de oro: read the book with parallel translation into English

Un día de invierno en que una espesa capa de nieve cubría la tierra, un pobre muchacho hubo de salir a buscar leña con un trineo. Una vez la hubo recogido y cargado, sintió tanto frío, que antes de regresar a casa quiso encender fuego y calentarse un poquitín. Al efecto apartó la nieve, y debajo, en el suelo, encontró una llavecita de oro. Creyendo que donde había una llave debía estar también su cerradura, siguió excavando en la tierra y, al fin, dio con una cajita de hierro. "¡Con tal que ajuste la llave! - pensó -. Seguramente hay guardadas aquí cosas de gran valor." Buscó, y, al principio, no encontró el agujero de la cerradura; al fin descubrió uno, pero tan pequeño que apenas se veía. Probó la llave y, en efecto, era la suya. Diole vuelta y... Ahora hemos de esperar a que haya abierto del todo y levantado la tapa. Entonces sabremos qué maravillas contenía la cajita.
In the winter time, when deep snow lay on the ground, a poor boy was forced to go out on a sledge to fetch wood. When he had gathered it together, and packed it, he wished, as he was so frozen with cold, not to go home at once, but to light a fire and warm himself a little. So he scraped away the snow, and as he was thus clearing the ground, he found a tiny, gold key. Hereupon he thought that where the key was, the lock must be also, and dug in the ground and found an iron chest. If the key does but fit it! thought he, no doubt there are precious things in that little box. He searched, but no keyhole was there. At last he discovered one, but so small that it was hardly visible. He tried it, and the key fitted it exactly. Then he turned it once round, and now we must wait until he has quite unlocked it and opened the lid, and then we shall learn what wonderful things were lying in that box.
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