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«The golden key» in Italian

La chiave d'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 chiave d'oro: read the book with parallel translation into English

Un giorno d'inverno, mentre una spessa coltre di neve copriva la terra, un povero ragazzo fu mandato a cercare della legna. Dopo averla raccolta, siccome sentiva molto freddo, prima di rincasare decise di accendere un fuoco per scaldarsi un po'. Sul terreno, dove la neve si era sciolta, vide una chiave d'oro. Ritenendo che dove c'è una chiave non possa non esserci anche una serratura, scavò e scavò finché trovò una piccola scatola di ferro. "Se con questa chiave riesco ad aprirla," pensò, "di sicuro dentro troverò qualcosa di grande valore." Così si mise a cercare il buco della serratura, ma riusciva a trovarlo. Alla fine lo vide, ma era così piccolo che lo si poteva appena vedere. Provò la chiave e questa entrò perfettamente. La girò una volta e... adesso dobbiamo aspettare che sollevi il coperchio per sapere quali grandi meraviglie la scatola contiene.
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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