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"A mortal man," she said, "had made love to a beautiful nixy, and won her affection in return. But because she was not human, he did not think of marrying her, but became engaged to a village maiden who was good and sweet, if not so beautiful as the nixy. But the nixy had her revenge.
Again and again he listens breathlessly, and again and again despair overwhelms him. Should he, then, never see the Nixy, and ask the fulfilment of his three wishes? Curiously enough, those three wishes which once were so great a part of his life had now almost escaped him. It was the Nixy's strain he had been intent upon, and the wishes had lapsed into oblivion.
"Time to go home," he said, cheerfully. "Good night, Sproggins." He took her into the house through the conservatory, paused to pluck and twine a wreath of tiny pink rosebuds for her, adjusted it on her rather touseled curls, and took her out to the Moorish Courtyard. "Now, Warb, what about the baboon?" "I want to go ragpick with him and be pag-rickers together. Can I? Pleathe " "Nixy.
Many a wet kiss will he have from them ha ha! but cold water will be his bridal bed, and death the groomsman ha, ha!" "Do not be so cruel," said kind little Brigitte, who had blamed the nixy in the story. "See how pale Hermann looks, he will faint in another minute; he has never been strong since he was out in that awful storm."
And now what had he to ask of the Nixy, who had blessed him so abundantly? The last secret, the wondrous strain, forsooth, that he might imprison it in notes, and din it in the ears of an unappreciative multitude!
He may tell some others just as tough as himself; and how could we hold up our end if half a dozen tackled us?" grumbled Thad, as he stalked along at the side of his chum. "Shall we go back, then?" asked the other. "Nixy. I don't care if there's a dozen coming, we're going to get to George all right. You hear me, Maurice." "That's the right way to speak.
But all the same he did not enjoy his good fortune, for he could not forget his compact with the nixy, and he knew that sooner or later she would demand his fulfilment of it. But year after year went by, and the boy grew up and became a great hunter, and the lord of the land took him into his service, for he was as smart and bold a hunter as you would wish to see.
Still Nils kept on making good resolutions and breaking them, and then piecing them together again and breaking them anew. If it had not been for his desire to see the Hulder and the Nixy, and making them promise the fulfilment of the three wishes, he would have given up the struggle, and resigned himself to being a bad boy because he was born so.
After several songs had been sung in unison, Hermann begged the young man who was the host that evening to ask the beautiful strangers to sing a song alone and of their own choosing, he longed to hear their voices, unspoilt by those of others. The nixy maidens readily complied: was not singing their most natural mode of expressing themselves?
"If you boys had been one year old when the Panama Canal was first mentioned," he managed to say, choking back his laughter, "you would now stand at the venerable age of four hundred and sixteen years." "I guess you get your history in the dream book," Jimmie cried. "Nixy dream book," declared Peter, with the dignity which comes of much knowledge.
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