The large hall within the elf hill was splendidly decorated the floor had been washed with moonshine, and the walls had been rubbed with magic ointment, so that they glowed like tulip-leaves in the light. The elfin maidens we’re already dancing on the elf hill, and they danced in shawls woven from moonshine and mist, which look very pretty to those who like such things. “Croak,” said the night-raven as he flew away with the invitations. We must have all the old demons of the first class, with tails, and the hobgoblins and imps and then I think we ought not to leave out the death-horse, or the grave-pig, or even the church dwarf, although they do belong to the clergy, and are not reckoned among our people but that is merely their office, they are nearly related to us, and visit us very frequently.” The merman and his daughter must be invited first, although it may not be agreeable to them to remain so long on dry land, but they shall have a wet stone to sit on, or perhaps something better so I think they will not refuse this time. But for the feast the company must be carefully selected we can only admit persons of high rank I have had a dispute myself with the elf king, as he thought we could not admit ghosts. “All the world may come to the great ball, even human beings, if they can only talk in their sleep, or do something after our fashion. We are going to have some very grand people, conjurors, who have always something to say and therefore the old elf king wishes to make a great display.” “You are invited to the elf hill for this evening,” said she “but will you do me a great favor and undertake the invitations? you ought to do something, for you have no housekeeping to attend to as I have. Her feet moved very fast, “trip, trip ” good gracious, how she could trip right down to the sea to the night-raven.
Just at this moment the elfin hill opened, and an old elfin maiden, hollow behind, came tripping out she was the old elf king’s housekeeper, and a distant relative of the family therefore she wore an amber heart on the middle of her forehead. “Who can the strangers be?” asked the lizards “what can the matter be? Hark, what a buzzing and humming there is!” The silver and gold which is plentiful in the hill will be polished and placed out in the moonlight.” All the will-o’-the-wisps are ordered to be there to hold a torch dance, as it is called. They expect friends in the elfin hill, grand company, too but who they are the earth-worm would not say, or, perhaps, he really did not know.
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He has heard a great deal although he cannot see, poor miserable creature, yet he understands very well how to wriggle and lurk about.
“I spoke about it to an earth-worm of my acquaintance,” said a third lizard “the earth-worm had just come from the elfin hill, where he has been groping about in the earth day and night. “There is something going on within there,” said the other lizard “they propped up the top of the hill with four red posts, till cock-crow this morning, so that it is thoroughly aired, and the elfin girls have learnt new dances there is something.” “What a buzzing and a rumbling there is in the elfin hill,” said one of the lizards “I have not been able to close my eyes for two nights on account of the noise I might just as well have had the toothache, for that always keeps me awake.”
A few large lizards were running nimbly about in the clefts of an old tree they could understand one another very well, for they spoke the lizard language.
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