dance, as it is called. The silver and gold which is plentiful
in the hill will be polished and placed out in the moonlight."
"Who can the strangers be?" asked the lizards; "what can
the matter be? Hark, what a buzzing and humming there is!"
Just at this moment the elfin hill opened, and an old
elfin maiden, hollow behind, came tripping out; she was the
old elf king's housekeeper, and a distant relative of the
family; therefore she wore an amber heart on the middle of her
forehead. Her feet moved very fast, "trip, trip;" good
gracious, how she could trip right down to the sea to the
night-raven.
"You are invited to the elf hill for this evening," said
she; "but will you do me a great favor and undertake the
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invitations? you ought to do something, for you have no
housekeeping to attend to as I have. We are going to have some
very grand people, conjurors, who have always something to
say; and therefore the old elf king wishes to make a great
display."
"Who is to be invited?" asked the raven.
"All the world may come to the great ball, even human
beings, if they can only talk in their sleep, or do something
after our fashion. But for the feast the company must be
carefully selected; we can only admit persons of high rank; I
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