The Green Fairy Book
brave little fellow, but he had lost neither arms nor legs in battle. Still, the fightin
ome reason or other his friends always called him
napsack on his back and his sword by his side, when suddenly one evening he was seized with a wish to ligh
hen he noticed a light shining through the trees. He went towards it
a window, saw a large fire blazing at the end of a low hall. He
u give me
got no
knocked again, this time more
ch and entered; t
for a nice red hot coal with which to light his pipe, when clic! something went, like a spring giv
ge still, this serpent
ives; but the little soldier, though he was so small, had a true soldier's
ent. 'I have been waiting for you,
are
he King of the Low Countries. Deliver me, and I
Ludovine's eyes, which looked at him as a snake looks at a little bird. They were beautiful green eyes, not round like those of a cat, but long and almond-shaped, and they shone with
do?' asked
at the end just like this. Cross that, and you will see a close
reached the room he saw by the light of the stars eight hands on a level with his face, which threate
which he returned with his fists. When he got to the closet, he
e panted, rathe
Ludovine was a woman down to her wa
lvet, embroidered in pearls, but the pe
ase which is on the left, and in the second room on the first st
y hands, eight arms, each holding an enormous stick. He instantly unsheathed his
which was made of silk as
e serpent appeared. She was no
w,' she said. 'Go and get them from th
these wretches will break it like glass, and if I can't think of anything else, I am a dead man.' At this moment his eyes fell on the door, which was made of oak, thick and heavy. He wrenched it off its hinges and held it over
two hundred ducats. Sleep to-night at the inn which is at the edge of the wood, and awake early in the morning: for at nine o'clock I shall pass the door, and shall take you up in my carriage.' 'Why shouldn't we go now?' ask
en lit his pip
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