The tiny Thumbelina woke up very early in the morning, and when she saw where she was she began to cry bitterly; for she was placed on a great green leaf in the middle of the water, and she could not get to the land.
The old toad was decorating her room, to make it very grand for her new daughter-in-law; then she swam out with her ugly son to the leaf where Thumbelina lay. The old toad said: 'Here is my son; you shall marry him, and live in great magnificence down under the marsh.'
Then they took the neat little cradle and swam away with it; but Thumbelina sat alone on the great green leaf and wept, for she did not want to live with the clammy toad, or marry her ugly son.
