. The black aunt. Stories and legends for children . ing?» rejoinedthe huntsman in astonishment, you dont say so! —«Where is your kingdom?)) At this Nutcracker put on awrathful face, but said nothing, and though the huntsmanasked him many other questions not a word would hesay in reply. The man was sorry for the little fellow,who, it was plain to see, was very cold, and he thoughtperhaps that he might serve as a playmate for the chil-dren of his master, whose castle was not a great wayfrom the forest. And so at last he asked him if he wouldo with him for he would freeze there in the wood. Thel
. The black aunt. Stories and legends for children . ing?» rejoinedthe huntsman in astonishment, you dont say so! —«Where is your kingdom?)) At this Nutcracker put on awrathful face, but said nothing, and though the huntsmanasked him many other questions not a word would hesay in reply. The man was sorry for the little fellow,who, it was plain to see, was very cold, and he thoughtperhaps that he might serve as a playmate for the chil-dren of his master, whose castle was not a great wayfrom the forest. And so at last he asked him if he wouldo with him for he would freeze there in the wood. Thelittle fellow gave a surly nod byway of assent and startedto follow the huntsman, but he could not get on fastenough and sunk almost to his ears in the fallen the huntsman stooped down and took the little fellowon his arm and went with him rapidly through the they had not gone far before a loud Cock-a-doodle-doo saluted them from the branch of a tree. At this Nut-cracker who had been sitting still looked and recognized 131. *~*^i^ his friend the cockerel and made the queerest the huntsman thinking that perhaps they belongedtogether at last enticed the cockerel which had flown afterthem from tree to tree, so that he came down to theground and sat on the huntsmans arm beside cockerel began to crow and chatter and the hunts-man who understood something of the language of ani-mals because he was always hunting for them in thewoods, heard from him the story of the white hen that 135 the fox had carried off, and how hungry he was becausefor a long time he had found nothing to eat. But Nut-cracker spoke in all sorts of snarling tones and the hunts-man could not understand him and bv and by the strangepair arrived in the yard of the castle. The cockerel jump-ed down clapped his wings, set up a merrv Cock-a-doodledoo and went in among the hens for they were just havinga dinner of barley corns. The hens were frightened atfirst and ran a
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