ut a stout little sack.Help yourself, my boy, he said. You mayhave all you want. I ask nothing in paymentbut the little brown herb. That you cannot have, answered Hans,for all the jewels in the world, for it is the brownherb that will make my mother well. So! said the little dwarf. If that is… … The little brown dwarf knocked on the snowdrift I cannot give her anything so good as the kindlittle son that is hers already. Then suddenly the dwarf and the cave disap-peared, and Hans was alone in the snow, but in 19 280 Happy Holidays one hand he still held the herb and in the otherthe little…
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