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'I will not desert you since you want me. No one shall say of the dean in Delsbo that he refused to accompany any creature who was in trouble. "He let the horse go as he wished and thought only of keeping his seat. It proved to be a hazardous and troublesome journey uphill most of the way.
When he did glance up, he saw that the forest was as dense about him as at the beginning, and he was somewhat surprised, for he had ridden so long that he should have come to the inhabited portion of the township. "Delsbo was about the same then as now.
Some were so small that they included only one cow and a few sheep; others consisted of only a pair of goats. It was apparent that these were from very humble homes, but they too were compelled to pass in review. "The dean thought of the Delsbo farmers, who had so much love for their beasts. 'Did they but know of it, surely they would not allow a repetition of this! he thought.
He preached so powerfully to the Delsbo peasants that in his day all the wolves and bears were exterminated from that section of the country, although they may have returned since his time." Here Bernhard ended his story. He received praise from all sides and it seemed to be a foregone conclusion that he would get the prize.
He knew little of Clement Larsson, but assumed that he would come out with some story about ghosts and trolls. As he knew that people liked to listen to such things, he thought it best to choose something of the same sort. "Some centuries ago," he began, "a dean here in Delsbo township was riding through the dense forest on a New Year's Eve. He was on horseback, dressed in fur coat and cap.
"'May he only find his way home before church hour! thought the dean. 'I wonder how the Delsbo folk would take it if I were not at my church on time? "He did not have to brood over this long, for soon he came to a place that was familiar to him. It was a little creek where he had fished the summer before.
Surely he had heard that the animals in Delsbo assembled on Black's Ridge every New Year's Eve, that the Wood-nymph might mark out which among the tame beasts would that year be prey for the wild beasts. The dean pitied the poor creatures that were at the mercy of savage beasts, when in reality they should have no master but man.
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