begun, or where it ended, nor indeed which were legs and which
were arms, for they were all flying about together, like the
shavings in a saw-pit! And then they spun round so quickly
that the death-horse and the grave-pig became sick and giddy,
and were obliged to leave the table.
"Stop!" cried the old goblin," is that the only
house-keeping they can perform? Can they do anything more than
dance and throw about their legs, and make a whirlwind?"
"You shall soon see what they can do," said the elf king.
And then he called his youngest daughter to him. She was
slender and fair as moonlight, and the most graceful of all
the sisters. She took a white chip in her mouth, and vanished
instantly; this was her accomplishment. But the old goblin
said he should not like his wife to have such an
accomplishment, and thought his boys would have the same
objection. Another daughter could make a figure like herself
follow her, as if she had a shadow, which none of the goblin
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folk ever had. The third was of quite a different sort; she
had learnt in the brew-house of the moor witch how to lard
elfin puddings with glow-worms.
"She will make a good housewife," said the old goblin, and
then saluted her with his eyes instead of drinking her health;
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