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Updated: June 13, 2025
'Why, here is a ring! she cried, 'where could it have come from? And picking it up she put it on her finger. As she did so the hill-man lost his power over Hans for of course you understand that it was he who had been the dog, the cow, the horse and the dove. 'Well, that is really strange, said the princess. 'It fits me as though it had been made for me! Just at that moment up came the king.
Many a time, when he worked in the field, he used to look at himself in a clear, still pool, and think how golden his hair was, and how lithe and graceful his figure. Now the Hill-man knew all this; and so he led the boy to a crystal mirror and showed him his own beautiful form, set off with every advantage of rich dress.
Immediately he did so, and saw the swarthy face of a turbaned hill-man raised above the rank grass, as its owner made slowly but steadily towards our tent, worming along like a snake, and leaving a thin line of beaten-down herbage to show where his body had passed.
They climbed the gloomy staircase, and stood at the opening in the hillock. Then the little Hill-man appealed once more to his master "Noble gentleman! remember, a life of labour with Reutha or one of continual pleasure alone! Think again!" "No, not for a moment," said Arndt, as he felt the breezes of earth playing on his cheek. How sweet they were, even after the fragrant airs of elfin-land!
"Ah," said the boy, "we are to have a great many strangers and great people. First and foremost, we are to have three priests and a bishop." "Hem!" muttered the hill-man; "however, those gentlemen usually look only after the eating and drinking; they will never take any notice of me. Well, who else?" "Then we have asked St. Peter and St. Paul." "Hem! hem!
Then he kissed her, and wept over her, and dressed her in his own beautiful robes, while the Hill-men dared not interfere. Arndt took his sister by the hand, and said "Now, let us go; we have stayed long enough. Good Hill-man, you shall have your cap again when you have brought Reutha and me to our own father's door." But the Hill-man shook his tiny head, and made his most obsequious bow.
But Arndt caught a glimpse of Reutha, as she sat outside; weeping she dared not enter with him and he kicked the baskets over, and scattered the jewels like so many pebbles. "Keep all your treasures, and give me my sister!" cried he. Then the Hill-man tried him with something else. Arndt was a very handsome boy and everybody had told him so, until he was rather vain.
It is, therefore, a good recipe for banishing them to beat a drum every day in the neighbourhood of their hills, for they immediately pack up, and depart to some quieter residence. A farmer lived once in great friendship and concord with a hill-man, whose hill was in his lands.
A hill-man accompanied me, armed with a general officer's sword which I had brought out why I really forget now, for it was anything but sharp, which I now regret, as it would have been interesting to see the effect of a really sharp sword on a bear's back.
One time when his wife was about to have a child, it gave him great perplexity to think that he could not well avoid inviting the hill-man to the christening, which might, not improbably, bring him into ill repute with the priest and the other people of the village.
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