THE KING OF ELFLAND’S DAUGHTER
loft and brought them to the kennels. And they climbed up the high palings and peered-over the top at the hounds.
When the hounds saw those strange heads peering over the palings they made a great uproar. And presently folk came to see what troubled the hounds. And when they saw that mass of trolls all round the top of the palings they said to each other, and so said all that heard of it: “There is magic in Erl now.”
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