. The Waldorf family ; or, Grandfather's lagends . J. early, he trusted to the belief, that the dwarfs hadnot yet begun their nightly frolics. So he ven-tured upon the heath, and had nearly reached themiddle of it, when he suddenly beheld it swarmingwith fairies, like crows in a corn field. At thesame moment, the horns of the little hunterssounded on all sides, and the cries of the poul-pikans were heard in every direction. We are lost! we are lost! cried Bernard, we shall be obliged to dance till daylight; and,after our days work, it will kill us. Troops of korigans now clustered round, likef
. The Waldorf family ; or, Grandfather's lagends . J. early, he trusted to the belief, that the dwarfs hadnot yet begun their nightly frolics. So he ven-tured upon the heath, and had nearly reached themiddle of it, when he suddenly beheld it swarmingwith fairies, like crows in a corn field. At thesame moment, the horns of the little hunterssounded on all sides, and the cries of the poul-pikans were heard in every direction. We are lost! we are lost! cried Bernard, we shall be obliged to dance till daylight; and,after our days work, it will kill us. Troops of korigans now clustered round, likeflies about a drop of honey, and the poor peasantswere in despair. But just as the dwarfs wereabout to seize both, they espied the little pitch-fork, which Guilcher carried in his hand, and in-stantly, tumbling each other head over heels, theyretreated, singing:— Back! my comrades! let them be!In his hand the pitchfork see;Touch them not, both he and she Through the Fairy-Copse go free. 179
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