cheerful and straightforward. I knew him formerly, when we
used to drink together to our good fellowship: he came here
once to fetch his wife, she is dead now. She was the daughter
of the king of the chalk-hills at Moen. They say he took his
wife from chalk; I shall be delighted to see him again. It is
said that the boys are ill-bred, forward lads, but perhaps
that is not quite correct, and they will become better as they
grow older. Let me see that you know how to teach them good
manners."
"And when are they coming?" asked the daughter.
"That depends upon wind and weather," said the elf king;
"they travel economically. They will come when there is the
chance of a ship. I wanted them to come over to Sweden, but
the old man was not inclined to take my advice. He does not go
forward with the times, and that I do not like."
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Two will-o'-the-wisps came jumping in, one quicker than
the other, so of course, one arrived first. "They are coming!
they are coming!" he cried.
"Give me my crown," said the elf king, "and let me stand
in the moonshine."
The daughters drew on their shawls and bowed down to the
ground. There stood the old goblin from the Dovre mountains,
with his crown of hardened ice and polished fir-cones. Besides
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