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and deserved better treatment. Now, if theboy would set him free, he would give him an old penny, asilver spoon, and a gold coin, as big as the case on hisfathers silver watch. The boy didnt think that this was much of an offer; butit so happened that after he had got the elf into his power,he was… … THE ELF BEGAN TO SPEAK, AND BEGGED, OH! SO PITIFULLY, FOR HIS FREEDOM WONDERFUL ADVENTURES OF NILS 9 For this reason he agreed at once to the bargain, and heldthe snare still, so the elf could crawl out of it. But when theelf was almost out of the snare, the boy happened to thinkthat he should have…
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