Clever Elsa
But she did not know what to answer, and stood for a time doubtful. At last she thought: ‘I will go home, and ask if it is me, or if it is not me; they will be sure to know.’
She ran to the house, but found the door locked; so she knocked at the window, and cried: ‘Hans, is Elsa at home?’
‘Yes,’ answered Hans, ‘she is!’
Then she started and cried: ‘Alas! then it is not me,’ and she went to another door; but when the people heard the jingling of the bells, they would not open the door, and nowhere would they take her in.
So she ran away out of the village, and was never seen again.
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