` She has no feelers ! ' cried another . ` How ugly she is ! ' said all the lady chafers -- and yet Thumbelina was really very pretty . The cockchafer who had stolen her knew this very well ; but when he heard all the ladies saying she was ugly , he began to think so too , and would not keep her ; she might go wherever she liked . So he flew down from the tree with her and put her on a daisy . There she sat and wept , because she was so ugly that the cockchafer would have nothing to do with her ; and yet she was the most beautiful creature imaginable , so soft and delicate , like the loveliest rose-leaf . The whole summer poor little Thumbelina lived alone in the great wood . She plaited a bed for herself of blades of grass , and hung it up under a clover-leaf , so that she was protected from the rain ; she gathered honey from the flowers for food , and drank the dew on the leaves every morning . Thus the summer and autumn passed , but then came winter -- the long , cold winter . All the birds who had sung so sweetly about her had flown away ; the trees shed their leaves , the flowers died ; the great clover-leaf under which she had lived curled up , and nothing remained of it but the withered stalk . She was terribly cold , for her clothes were ragged , and she herself was so small and thin . Poor little Thumbelina ! she would surely be frozen to death . It began to snow , and every snow-flake that fell on her was to her as a whole shovelful thrown on one of us , for we are so big , and she was only an inch high . She wrapt herself round in a dead leaf , but it was torn in the middle and gave her no warmth ; she was trembling with cold . Just outside the wood where she was now living lay a great corn-field . But the corn had been gone a long time ; only the dry , bare stubble was left standing in the frozen ground . This made a forest for her to wander about in . All at once she came across the door of a field-mouse , who had a little hole under a corn-stalk .
There the mouse lived warm and snug , XXXXX a store-room full of corn , a splendid kitchen and dining-room .
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