There she lay at night , but in the day-time she used to play about on the table ; here the woman had put a bowl , surrounded by a ring of flowers , with their stalks in water , in the middle of which floated a great tulip pedal , and on this Thumbelina sat , and sailed from one side of the bowl to the other , rowing herself with two white horse-hairs for oars . It was such a pretty sight ! She could sing , too , with a voice more soft and sweet than had ever been heard before . One night , when she was lying in her pretty little bed , an old toad crept in through a broken pane in the window . She was very ugly , clumsy , and clammy ; she hopped on to the table where Thumbelina lay asleep under the red rose-leaf . ` This would make a beautiful wife for my son , ' said the toad , taking up the walnut-shell , with Thumbelina inside , and hopping with it through the window into the garden . There flowed a great wide stream , with slippery and marshy banks ; here the toad lived with her son . Ugh ! how ugly and clammy he was , just like his mother ! ` Croak , croak , croak ! ' was all he could say when he saw the pretty little girl in the walnut-shell . ` Do n't talk so load , or you 'll wake her , ' said the old toad . ` She might escape us even now ; she is as light as a feather . We will put her at once on a broad water-lily leaf in the stream . That will be quite an island for her ; she is so small and light . She ca n't run away from us there , whilst we are preparing the guest-chamber under the marsh where she shall live . ' Outside in the brook grew many water-lilies , with broad green leaves , which looked as if they were swimming about on the water . The leaf farthest away was the largest , and to this the old toad swam with Thumbelina in her walnut-shell . The tiny Thumbelina woke up very early in the morning , and when she saw where she was she began to cry bitterly ; for on every side of the great green leaf was water , and she could not get to the land . The old toad was down under the marsh , decorating her room with rushes and yellow marigold leaves , to make it very grand for her new daughter-in-law ; then she swam out with her ugly son to the leaf where Thumbelina lay .
She wanted to fetch the pretty cradle to put it into her room XXXXX Thumbelina herself came there .
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