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"It is mine now," he murmured: "it is all mine, now, the Hoard of the swarthy elf-folk, the garnered wisdom of ages. The strength of the world is mine. I will keep, I will save, I will heap up; and none shall have part or parcel of the treasure which is mine alone." Then his eyes fell upon Siegfried; and his cheeks grew dark with wrath, and he cried out, "Why are you here in my way?
But they that were kin to the Elf-folk were sorry for the little Wild Thing; and though the Wild Things cannot sorrow long, having no souls to sorrow with, yet they felt for awhile a soreness where their souls should be, when they saw the grief of their comrade. So the kith of the Elf-folk went abroad by night to make a soul for the little Wild Thing.
And they came up by flocks the whole night long to the number of a great multitude, and danced away together over the marshes. And I believe that there was a great rejoicing all that night among the kith of the Elf-folk. The Highwaymen Tom o' the Roads had ridden his last ride, and was now alone in the night.
"In that case I will soon put you out of power to play the spy," he answered. So saying, he spat in her face, and she became blind on the spot. A Danish story also relates that a midwife, who had inadvertently anointed her eyes with the salve handed to her by the elf-folk for the usual purpose, was going home afterwards and passed by a rye-field.
"Trust you to get telepathic messages from the elf-folk! Why, this gorge teems with fairy tales and legends of magic, black and white. The Rhine Valley and the Black Forest together haven't as many or as wonderful ones. I should like you to hear the stories from some of the village people or the boatmen. They believe them to this day." "Why, of course," I said, gravely.
The myth-spirits of the North were more homely and domestic than those of the South, and had a broader humor and livelier fancies. The Northern Elf-folk were true natives of the soil, grotesque in costume and shape. The Teuton of to-day is the lineal descendant of the old worshipper of Thor. Miöllnir, the hammer of Thor, still survives in the gigantic mechanisms of Watt, Fulton, and Stephenson.
'I am a Wild Thing, and have found a soul in the marshes, and we are kin to the Elf-folk. Talking it over afterwards, the farmer and his wife agreed that she must be a gipsy who had been lost, and that she was queer with hunger and exposure. So that night the little Wild Thing slept in the farmer's house, but her new soul stayed awake the whole night long dreaming of the beauty of the marshes.
"With the giant's kin Have I oft raised din; To the rock folk Have I dealt out stroke; Ill things could tell That I smote full well; The half-trolls know My baneful blow. "Small gain in me Did the elf-folk see, Or the evil wights Who ride anights." Many other deeds of his did Hallmund sing in that song, for he had fared through all the land.
And it left London far behind it, reddening the sky, and could distinguish no longer its unlovely roar, but heard again the noises of the night. And now it would come through a hamlet glowing and comfortable in the night; and now to the dark, wet, open fields again; and many an owl it overtook as they drifted through the night, a people friendly to the Elf-folk.
We are only Wild Things, and of the kith of the Elf-folk. But it only answered, 'I want to have a soul. Then the Oldest of the Wild Things said: 'I have no soul to give you; but if you got a soul, one day you would have to die, and if you knew the meaning of music you would learn the meaning of sorrow, and it is better to be a Wild Thing and not to die. So it went weeping away.
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