Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen

pistols, and a silver coffee-pot. This latter would be useful when he began housekeeping. But all these were not the heaviest weight he

e sound of the axe and the heavy fall of the trunks of the trees, as they rolled down the slopes of the mountains. When seen from the heights, the trunks of these trees looked like slender ste

quite near to him. She was also going to ascend the mountain. The maiden's eyes shone with an uneart

Rudy; all his thoughts were

iden, with a laugh; it was as

round," said she. "We must keep

e crevasse. Do you pretend to be a guide,

ed, while yours are down in the valley yonder. We should think of the

not keep me when I was a child; I will n

, and then it began to snow, an

n; "I will help you to mount." And

require a woman to help me to climb." And

e wind whistled, and behind him he could hear the maiden l

ought Rudy, who had heard such things talked about when he was a li

he looked back, there was no one to be seen, but he heard sou

f the Rhone, the snow had ceased, and in the clear heavens he saw two bright stars twinkling. They re