`` Since I came into the world I have been many times scoured , and have cooked much . My only pleasure is to have a good chat with my companions when I am lying nice and clean in my place after dinner . '' ' `` Now you are talking too fast , '' spluttered the fire . ' `` Yes , let us decide who is the grandest ! '' said the matches . ' `` No , I do n't like talking about myself , '' said the pot . ' `` Let us arrange an evening 's entertainment . I will tell the story of my life . ' `` On the Baltic by the Danish shore - '' ` What a beautiful beginning ! '' said all the plates . `` That 's a story that will please us all . '' ` And the end was just as good as the beginning . All the plates clattered for joy . ' `` Now I will dance , '' said the tongs , and she danced . Oh ! how high she could kick ! ` The old chair-cover in the corner split when he saw her . ` The urn would have sung but she said she had a cold ; she could not sing unless she boiled . ` In the window was an old quill pen . There was nothing remarkable about her except that she had been dipped too deeply into the ink .
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