Hans Christian Andersen

Wonderful Stories for Children Hans Christian Andersen

At that time he believed all this; but when he grew a bigger boy, and had learned more, and was wiser, he was quite sure that there must be some other very different delight in this Garden of Paradise. "Oh! why did Eve gather of the tree of knowledge? why did Adam eat the forbidden fruit? If it haa been me, I never would have done so! If it had been me, sin should never have entered into the world!" So said he, many a time, when he was young; so said he when he was much older!