. Our young folks [serial]. smiting each image in the face, and no harm came. Theywere indeed but blocks of wood and stone. Then the crowd awoke from their stupor of astonishment. With a wild vol. iv. — NO. II. 7 98 Wide-Mouthed Kluhn. [February, cry they burst into the sacred enclosure. Axe and hammer were soon atwork, and gods and goddesses were hurled to the ground. Fagots andtorches were brought, and in a few minutes gods and temple were burningin one sacrificial fire. Wall and bank were next levelled with the ground,amid the wild shouts of the Saxons, above which rose the triumphant voice
. Our young folks [serial]. smiting each image in the face, and no harm came. Theywere indeed but blocks of wood and stone. Then the crowd awoke from their stupor of astonishment. With a wild vol. iv. — NO. II. 7 98 Wide-Mouthed Kluhn. [February, cry they burst into the sacred enclosure. Axe and hammer were soon atwork, and gods and goddesses were hurled to the ground. Fagots andtorches were brought, and in a few minutes gods and temple were burningin one sacrificial fire. Wall and bank were next levelled with the ground,amid the wild shouts of the Saxons, above which rose the triumphant voicesof the Christian priests chanting psalms and hallelujahs. But from the exulting and excited throng, one figure stole quietly out, and,mounting a fleet steed, rode swiftly back to the palace, and crossed its de-serted courts to the Queens chamber. There, leaping from his horse, Ed-win threw himself into the arms of his faithful Ethelberga, exclaiming withjoyous but reverent voice, Now, indeed, Christ is Lord. WIDE-MOUTHED KLUHN f^\NCE upon a time, the little woman began, there lived in a quietV^ valley a rather sour-tempered child, who was so fond of red, that shewas seldom seen without some garment or ribbon of that color, and so be-came known in the valley as Little Redjacket. She had often heard of Santa Claus, the well-beloved friend of children, 1868.] Wide-Mouthed Kluhn. 99 of the sweet fairies who lived in flowers, of wicked giants, of humpbackeddwarfs whose feet grew backwards, or were clawed like the feet of geese,and who hammered away upon various metals, deep underground ; also ofthe little hillmen, with caps no bigger than her thimble, who worked all dayinside the hills, but came out at night to roll down the sides, and to playtricks upon the passers-by ; and of the funny trolls, not higher than a pipe-stem, clad in moss-jackets and pointed caps, who came forth by moonlightto fiddle, while fairies danced around the ring. And one summers day she said
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