Der var på dampskibet en gammelagtig mand, med et så fornøjet ansigt, at, løj det ikke, da måtte han være det lykkeligste menneske på jorden. Det var han også, sagde han; jeg hørte det af hans egen mund; han var dansk, var min landsmand og rejsende teaterdirektør. Hele personalet havde han med, det lå i en stor kasse; han var marionetspiller. Hans medfødte gode humør, sagde han, var blevet lutret af en polyteknisk kandidat, og ved det eksperiment var han blevet fuldkommen lykkelig. Jeg forstod ham ikke straks, men så satte han hele historien klart ud for mig, og her er den.
Sådan starter HC Andersens eventyr, Marionetspilleren. Nu skal du finde eventyret frem og svare på nogle sprørgsmål:
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On board a steamer I once met an elderly man, with such a merry face that, if it was really an index of his mind, he must have been the happiest fellow in creation; and indeed he considered himself so, for I heard it from his own mouth. He was a Dane, the owner of a travelling theatre. He had all his company with him in a large box, for he was the proprietor of a puppet-show. His inborn cheerfulness, he said, had been tested by a member of the Polytechnic Institution, and the experiment had made him completely happy. I did not at first understand all this, but afterwards he explained the whole story to me; and here it is:
This is how the fairy tale, The puppet-show man, by HC Andersen begins. Now you have to find the fairy tale and answer some questions:
