Two little porcelain figurines were trying to escape from a cruel grandfather figurine who would not let them be married. They climbed up and out the chimney and into the wide world. After a moment, the shepherdess began to weep because the world was too wide.
In the end, the chimney sweep helped her go back down the chimney where they found the grandfather had fallen off the sideboard and broken his neck. The grandfather's neck was fixed with a rivet allowing him to nod his head 'yes,' and so the shepherdess was allowed to marry the chimney sweep.
I love this story, especially the part where the shepherdess and the chimney sweep see the whole world from the top of the chimney...and the shepherdess begins to cry because it's just too wide.
