Select popular tales, from the German of Musaeus . boundary,however, the princess had luckily just passed, and beyond thatRiibezahl was powerless. The deserted spirit rent the air with his cries, and plungeddown to his subterraneous dominions, there to bewail his disap-pointment, and to lament his ill-fortune. In his rage he stampedhis feet, and in a moment the magic palace disappeared, while thegnome betook himself once more to his former solitary abode inthe centre of the earth, with a heart still more embittered againstthe inhabitants of this upper earth. The report of the strange adventure
Select popular tales, from the German of Musaeus . boundary,however, the princess had luckily just passed, and beyond thatRiibezahl was powerless. The deserted spirit rent the air with his cries, and plungeddown to his subterraneous dominions, there to bewail his disap-pointment, and to lament his ill-fortune. In his rage he stampedhis feet, and in a moment the magic palace disappeared, while thegnome betook himself once more to his former solitary abode inthe centre of the earth, with a heart still more embittered againstthe inhabitants of this upper earth. The report of the strange adventure of the princess, and theingenious device by which she effected her escape, was soon spreadabroad throughout her fathers kingdom, and in all the surround-ing country, and it became a tradition, which descended fromgeneration to generation, until at last the common people wereaccustomed to give the gnome, for want of a better, the name ofRiibezahl, or the Turnip Counter; thus perpetuating in the mostlasting manner the memory of his unlucky P. 155. ?J|^p£5^HE displeased gnome had, as we have seen, left0^ffif&l the upper world with the determination never againy^§is> to behold the light of day; but beneficent Timegradually effaced the effects of his grief, althoughthe tedious operation of healing his wound re-quired not less than nine hundred and ninety-nine years. Atlength, when sadly oppressed by heaviness and ennui, and in avery bad humour, his favourite jester in the lower region—amerry frolicksome cob old—proposed one day a pleasure trip tothe Giant Mountains, to which proposal his Highness mostreadily acceded. There needed no longer time than a minute,and the distant journey was accomplished. He found himself atonce in the midst of his old pleasure grounds, to which heimparted its former appearance of verdure; invisible, however, tohuman eyes,—for the wanderers who crossed the mountains sawnothing but a gloomy wilderness. The sight of these objects,still
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