` Well , I will this time , ' said the gardener . ` But another time Little Lasse must ask leave to go and look for boats in the pea bed . ' ' I will , ' answered Lasse ; and he went off to the shore . Then he opened the shells with a pin , split them carefully in two , and broke small little bits of sticks for the rowers ' seats . Then he took the peas which were in the shells and put them in the boats for cargo . Some of the shells got broken , some remained whole , and when all were ready Lasse had twelve boats . But they should not be boats , they should be large warships . He had three liners , three frigates , three brigs and three schooners . The largest liner was called Hercules , and the smallest schooner The Flea . Little Lasse put all the twelve into the water , and they floated as splendidly and as proudly as any great ships over the waves of the ocean . And now the ships must sail round the world . The great island over there was Asia ; that large stone Africa ; the little island America ; the small stones were Polynesia ; and the shore from which the ships sailed out was Europe . The whole fleet set off and sailed far away to other parts of the world . The ships of the line steered a straight course to Asia , the frigates sailed to Africa , the brigs to America , and the schooners to Polynesia . But Little Lasse remained in Europe , and threw small stones out into the great sea . Now , there was on the shore of Europe a real boat , father 's own , a beautiful white-painted boat , and Little Lasse got into it . Father and mother had forbidden this , but Little Lasse forgot . He thought he should very much like to travel to some other part of the world . ' I shall row out a little way -- only a very little way , ' he thought . The pea-shell boats had travelled so far that they only looked like little specks on the ocean . '
I shall seize Hercules XXXXX the coast of Asia , ' said Lasse , ` and then row home again to Europe . '
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