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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
| “Did you know me then, lb?” she said | 305 |
| So he set himself to write, but the words would not come | 305 |
| Where the plough had cut it, it glittered before him | 306 |
| Life and joy reigned there, for there was little Christine | 307 |
| The Cripple | |
| But Hans was pleased with it | 308 |
| “Good-night,” said the king; “now you can go home and curse your folly” | 309 |
| The swineherd sat in the ditch, and laughed and sang. “I am that most fortunate man” | 311 |
| Even people quite out on the high-road could hear it singing | 312 |
| He held the cage in his hands, and ran with it out of the door into the road | 313 |
| The Old Bachelor’s Nightcap | |
| Seated on the bed he chanted an evening psalm | 315 |
| One pip the little girl proposed they should plant in the earth | 315 |
| “Lady Holle! Lady Holle!” she cried, loud and clear | 316 |
| “I dare kiss him,” she would cry, and throw her arms round his neck | 317 |
| He longed to say, “Lady Holle, Lady Holle, open the door to me!” | 318 |
| Wine, bread, and all the basket held, miraculously changed to roses | 319 |
| Prone he lay, clasping in death his old nightcap | 320 |
