The Waldorf family . cingat the same time the little bags upon the table. 192 But, alas ! he had counted the price of his butterbefore he had bought his cow. The purses of themalicious korils contained nothing but sand, deadleaves, some hair, and a pair of scissors. At thisdeplorable sight, he uttered such a cry, that hiswife, who had gone to lock the door, came runningback to see what was the matter. Guilcher toldher the whole story, The korigans have cheated you, she said. Alas ! yes; I see it now, said the poor fellow. How could you dare to touch the purses ofthat accursed race, you wicked
The Waldorf family . cingat the same time the little bags upon the table. 192 But, alas ! he had counted the price of his butterbefore he had bought his cow. The purses of themalicious korils contained nothing but sand, deadleaves, some hair, and a pair of scissors. At thisdeplorable sight, he uttered such a cry, that hiswife, who had gone to lock the door, came runningback to see what was the matter. Guilcher toldher the whole story, The korigans have cheated you, she said. Alas ! yes; I see it now, said the poor fellow. How could you dare to touch the purses ofthat accursed race, you wicked wretch ? I thought I should find in them somethingworth having, said he, despondingly. You might have known better than to expectany thing good from such a source. You haveonly brought ill-luck upon the house. But giveme the sacks: you know that running water de-stroys all enchantments; and if I throw them intothe brook behind the house, they will do us noharm. So saying, she snatched up the little red purses, 193 13. and followed by the miserable Guilcher, went tothe stream, into which she plunged the fairy treas-ures. But Guilcher waited until she had goneinto the house, and then wading into the water, hefished out the sacks, saying to himself: I willtake them back to the korils, and perhaps theywill give me true gold for them. As he was carrying them into the barn, wherehe meant to hide them until night, he fancied theyhad grown heavier, and could not resist his desireto look into one more bag, to be sure that he hadreally been cheated. What was his astonishment,therefore, to find the hairs converted into pearls,the dead leaves into gold pieces, the sand intodiamonds, and the scissors into a superb gold-hiltedsword. The running water had destroyed the en-chantment which the mischievous korils had laidupon their treasures, to guard them from the eyesof mortals. Guilcher paid Balibowzik his five crowns, andgave to every poor man in the village a bushel ofwheat, and six ells of
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