Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 425
as if dead in the great cavern on the cold rock, andaround them stood sadly the little Wichtel men.One of them, who had a snow-white beard, andmust have been very old, said to the rest: 4-00 KING WICHTEL THE FIRST. [April, Did I not tell you that we could not keep our The Wichtel men bowed their… … WELCOME 1 WELCOME ! I AM RIGHT GLAD YOU HAVE COME. are all alike. Even the poorest love their parents re-clad the children in their old clothes, took them so much that they long for them, and cry, and softly out of the hole in the mountain, and then this they would do though one should offer them…
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