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I will give you the whole world and a new pair of skates. But he could not do it. 'Now I must fly to warmer countries, said the Snow-queen. And off she flew, and Kay sat alone in the great hall trying to do his puzzle. He sat so still that you would have thought he was frozen. Then it happened that little Gerda stepped into the hall.
Gerda lay awake for some time. 'Coo, coo! said the wood-pigeons. 'We have seen little Kay. A white bird carried his sledge; he was sitting in the Snow-queen's carriage which drove over the forest when our little ones were in the nest. She breathed on them, and all except we two died. Coo, coo! 'What are you saying over there? cried Gerda. 'Where was the Snow-queen going to? Do you know at all?
So they lived happily together till they were quite old, and when one was taken ill and died the two others were so deeply grieved that they were also taken ill and died too. And so, because they had all been so clever, and so fond of each other, they were all laid in one grave. The Snow-queen Translated from the German of Hans Andersen by Miss Alma Alleyne.
And Gerda kissed his cheeks and they grew rosy; she kissed his eyes and they sparkled like hers; she kissed his hands and feet and he became warm and glowing. The Snow-queen might come home now; his release the word 'Love' stood written in sparkling ice.
In the middle of the great hall was a frozen lake which had cracked in a thousand pieces; each piece was exactly like the other. Here the Snow-queen used to sit when she was at home. Little Kay was almost blue and black with cold, but he did not feel it, for she had kissed away his feelings and his heart was a lump of ice.
If these do not come out, he will never be free, and the Snow-queen will keep her power over him. 'But cannot you give little Gerda something so that she can have power over her? 'I can give her no greater power than she has already; don't you see how great it is? Don't you see how men and beasts must help her when she wanders into the wide world with her bare feet?
Or stately Ogier the Dane, recalled from Faery, asking his way to the land that once had need of him! Or even, on some white night, the Snow-Queen herself, with a chime of sleigh-bells and the patter of reindeers' feet, with sudden halt at the door flung wide, while aloft the Northern Lights went shaking attendant spears among the quiet stars!
The reindeer told Gerda's whole history, but first he told his own, for that seemed to him much more important, and Gerda was so cold that she could not speak. 'Ah, you poor creatures! said the Lapland woman; 'you have still further to go! You must go over a hundred miles into Finland, for there the Snow-queen lives, and every night she burns Bengal lights.
The kiss was cold as ice and reached down to his heart, which was already half a lump of ice. 'My sledge! Don't forget my sledge! He thought of that first, and it was fastened to one of the great white birds who flew behind with the sledge on its back. The Snow-queen kissed Kay again, and then he forgot all about little Gerda, his grandmother, and everybody at home.
Liversedge's hearty hand-shake. "You have come like a sort of snow-queen," said Tobias, with unusual imaginativeness, pointing to the windows. "It must have begun just as you got here." Perhaps the chill of her fingers prompted him to this poetical flight. His wife, who had noticed the same thing, added, with practical fervour: "I only hope the house is thoroughly dry.
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