Fairy tales
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: The Elf-Hill Some lizards were nimbly running in and out of the clefts in an old tree. They understood each other very well, for they all spoke lizard language. " What a rumbling and grumbling is going on ins...
MorePurchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: The Elf-Hill Some lizards were nimbly running in and out of the clefts in an old tree. They understood each other very well, for they all spoke lizard language. " What a rumbling and grumbling is going on inside the old Elf-hill," said one of the lizards. " I have not closed my eyes for the last two nights for the noise. I might just as well be having toothache, for all the sleep I get!" " There is something up inside," said the other lizard. " They propped up the top of the hill on four red posts till cockcrow this morning, to air it out thoroughly; and the elf maidens had been learning some new dancing steps, which they are always practising. There certainly must be something going on." " Yes, I was talking to an earthworm of my acquaintance about it," said the third lizard. " He came straight up out of the hill, where he had been boring into the earth for days and nights. He had heard a good deal, for the miserable creature can't see, but it can feel its way, and plays the part of eavesdropper to perfection. They are expecting visitors in the Elf-hill, grand visitors; but who they are the earthworm refused to say or perhaps he did not know. All the will-o'-the-wisps are ordered for a procession of torches, as it is called; and the silver and gold plate, of which there is any amount in the hill, is all being polished up and put out in the moonlight." " Whoever can the strangers be ? " said all the lizards together. " What on earth is happening ? Hark ! what a humming and buzzing ? " At this moment the Elf-hill opened, and an elderly elf- maiden tripped out. She was hollow behind,1 but otherwise quite attractively dressed. She was the old elf-king's house- 1 According to a superstition these elf-maidens are hollow, like the inside of a mask. keeper, and...
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