Germany. The Friendly Dwarfs
The Friendly Dwarfs'
CLOSE to the little town of Dardesheim, between Halberstadt and Brunswick, is a spring of the finest water called the Smansborn, and which flows out of a hill in which in old. times the dwarfs dwelt. When the former inhabitants of the country were in want of a holiday-dress, or, at a family festival, of any rare utensils, they went and stood before this Dwarf-hill, knocked three times, and pronounced their petition in a distinct and. audible tone, adding,
Before the sun is up to-morrow.
At the hill shall be the things we borrow.
The Dwarfs thought themselves sufficiently compensated if there was only some of the festive victuals set down before the hill.
CLOSE to the little town of Dardesheim, between Halberstadt and Brunswick, is a spring of the finest water called the Smansborn, and which flows out of a hill in which in old. times the dwarfs dwelt. When the former inhabitants of the country were in want of a holiday-dress, or, at a family festival, of any rare utensils, they went and stood before this Dwarf-hill, knocked three times, and pronounced their petition in a distinct and. audible tone, adding,
Before the sun is up to-morrow.
At the hill shall be the things we borrow.
The Dwarfs thought themselves sufficiently compensated if there was only some of the festive victuals set down before the hill.
