Somehow a ray of sunlight penetrated the snow on the ground and the flower, hidden underneath, thought that the spring had come. It stretched up, lengthening its stem as far as it could, and made a little hole in the icy roof, so that it could peek out at the world.
Oh dear! It had made a terrible mistake. It was still winter. Everyone laughed at the silly snowdrop, which would have died from the cold if a little boy had not picked it and taken it home. The snowdrop was put in a vase of water in a warm room, and it felt like a king.
Not long after, the little boy’s big sister took the flower from the vase and put it in an envelope with a letter. The snowdrop would not read, but it somehow knew that the words in the letter were beautiful. After a long and uncomfortable journey in a bag with other letters and packages, the snowdrop found itself lifted gently out of the envelop by a young man who put the flower to his lips and gave it a loving kiss.
The young man became a great poet who remembered the lovely snowdrop in his poems, and it became famous. So, even though it might have been rather silly, it was still a lucky snowdrop
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