them, salad of mushroom seed, hemlock, noses and marrow of
mice, beer from the marsh woman's brewery, and sparkling
salt-petre wine from the grave cellars. These were all
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substantial food. Rusty nails and church-window glass formed
the dessert. The old elf king had his gold crown polished up
with powdered slate-pencil; it was like that used by the first
form, and very difficult for an elf king to obtain. In the
bedrooms, curtains were hung up and fastened with the slime of
snails; there was, indeed, a buzzing and humming everywhere.
"Now we must fumigate the place with burnt horse-hair and
pig's bristles, and then I think I shall have done my part,"
said the elf man-servant.
"Father, dear," said the youngest daughter, "may I now
hear who our high-born visitors are?"
"Well, I suppose I must tell you now," he replied; "two of
my daughters must prepare themselves to be married, for the
marriages certainly will take place. The old goblin from
Norway, who lives in the ancient Dovre mountains, and who
possesses many castles built of rock and freestone, besides a
gold mine, which is better than all, so it is thought, is
coming with his two sons, who are both seeking a wife. The old
goblin is a true-hearted, honest, old Norwegian graybeard;
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