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 on the coast of Asia , ' said Lasse , ` and then row home again to Europe . ' He shook the rope that held the boat , and , strange to say , the rope became loose . Ditsch , ratsch , a man is a man , and so Little Lasse manned the boat . Now he would row -- and he could row , for he had rowed so often on the step sat home , when the steps pretended to be a boat and father 's big stick an oar . But when Little Lasse wanted to row there were no oars to be found in the boat . The oars were locked up in the boat-house , and Little Lasse had not noticed that the boat was empty . It is not so easy as one thinks to row to Asia without oars . What could Little Lasse do now ? The boat was already some distance out on the sea , and the wind , which blew from land , was driving it still further out . Lasse was frightened and began to cry . But there was no one on the shore to hear him . Only a big crow perched alone in the birch tree ; and the gardener 's black cat sat under the birch tree , waiting to catch the crow . Neither of them troubled themselves in the least about Little Lasse , who was drifting out to sea . Ah ! how sorry Little Lasse was now that he had been disobedient and got into the boat , when father and mother had so often forbidden him to do so ! Now it was too late , he could not get back to land .
Perhaps he would be lost out XXXXX the great sea .
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