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A FEW large lizards were running nimbly about in the 

  clefts of an old tree; they could understand one another very 

  well, for they spoke the lizard language. 

  "What a buzzing and a rumbling there is in the elfin 

  hill," said one of the lizards; "I have not been able to close 

  my eyes for two nights on account of the noise; I might just 

  as well have had the toothache, for that always keeps me 

  awake." 

  "There is something going on within there," said the other 

  lizard; "they propped up the top of the hill with four red 

  posts, till cock-crow this morning, so that it is thoroughly 

  aired, and the elfin girls have learnt new dances; there is 

  something." 

  "I spoke about it to an earth-worm of my acquaintance," 

  said a third lizard; "the earth-worm had just come from the 

  elfin hill, where he has been groping about in the earth day 

  and night. He has heard a great deal; although he cannot see, 

  poor miserable creature, yet he understands very well how to 

  wriggle and lurk about. They expect friends in the elfin hill, 

  grand company, too; but who they are the earth-worm would not 

  say, or, perhaps, he really did not know. All the 

  will-o”-the-wisps are ordered to be there to hold a torch 

  dance, as it is called. The silver and gold which is plentiful 

  in the hill will be polished and placed out in the moonlight." 

  "Who can the strangers be?" asked the lizards; "what can 

  the matter be? Hark, what a buzzing and humming there is!" 

  Just at this moment the elfin hill opened, and an old 

  elfin maiden, hollow behind, came tripping out; she was the 

  old elf king”s housekeeper, and a distant relative of the 

  family; therefore she wore an amber heart on the middle of her 

  forehead. Her feet moved very fast, "trip, trip;" good 

  gracious, how she could trip right down to the sea to the 

  night-raven. 

  "You are invited to the elf hill for this evening," said 

  she; "but will you do me a great favor and undertake the 

  invitations? you ought to do something, for you have no 

  housekeeping to attend to as I have. We are going to have some 

  very grand people, conjurors, who have always something to 

  say; and therefore the old elf king wishes to make a great 

  display." 

  "Who is to be invited?" asked the raven. 

  "All the world may come to the great ball, even human 

  beings, if they can only talk in their sleep, or do something 

  after our fashion. But for the feast the company must be 

  carefully selected; we can only admit persons of high rank; I 

  have had a dispute myself with the elf king, as he thought we 

  could not admit ghosts. The merman and his daughter must be 

  invited first, although it may not be agreeable to them to 

  remain so long on dry land, but they shall have a wet stone to 

  sit on, or perhaps something better; so I think they will not 

  refuse this time. We must have all the old demons of the first 

  class, with tails, and the hobgoblins and imps; and then I 

  think we ought not to leave out the death-horse, or the 

  grave-pig, or even the church dwarf, although they do belong 

  to the clergy, and are not reckoned among our people; but that 

  is merely their office, they are nearly related to us, and 

  visit us very frequently." 

  "Croak," said the night-raven as he flew away with the 

  invitations. 

  The elfin maidens we”re already dancing on the elf hill, 

  and they danced in shawls woven from moonshine and mist, which 

  look very pretty to those who like such things. The large hall 

  within the elf hill was splendidly decorated; the floor had 

  been washed with moonshine, and the walls had been rubbed with 

  magic ointment, so that they glowed like tulip-leaves in the 

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