Of Might and Mettle (The Toymaker’s Chronicles #1)

—The Brave Tin Soldier

The soldiers were all exactly alike,

excepting one, who had only one leg;

he had been left to the last, and then

there was not enough of the melted tin to finish him,

so they made him to stand firmly on one leg,

and this caused him to be very remarkable.

—The Brave Tin Soldier

by Hans Christian Anderson