Once upon a time there lived a harsh man with a timid daughter. The man kept the girl busy and hardly ever let her out of doors. The man, whose name was Simon Swinehart, made his living by scavenging for junk and bringing it home for his daughter to repair and then sold it for secondhand goods. One day he found pieces of porcelain that had once been a beautiful vase. He brought them home to his daughter to patch back into a vase. But she wasn't paying attention and didn't realize until the last piece was in place that she had made, not a porcelain vase, but a porcelain man. This porcelain man could talk. He said, “I love you,” and took the girl into his arms and kissed her. Just then Simon returned home. He smashed the porcelain man to pieces, thinking he was a real man. But when his daughter told him that the man was made of porcelain and could walk and talk, he told her to put him back together again, because Simon could make a fortune showing him at the county fair. But this time the girl made a porcelain horse, who ran off with the girl on his back. This was terrible. He still loved the girl, but he was a horse, not a man. He didn't want to horse around; he wanted to marry her. He then became a set of dishes. How could she fall in love with a set of dishes? On top of that, he had a rival - a real man. But he has one more transformation with which to win her love. This time he succeeds. What could it be? Come and see.
