No, replied the boy, I cant open the door. You must go away. But nonethe less, he did wish that he could open the door just a cradt, so that hecould have a look at the fairies. Then they began to shiver with the cold … -.^^ and begged so piteously, that Smolineck felt sorry for them and opened thedoor, just wide enough for them to put in their two little fingers, as they had promised. The fairies thanked him very prettily and put in their two little fingers, thentheir hands, and before he knew it, their arms and…
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