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Title: The pink fairy book
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912, ed
Subjects: Tales
Publisher: New York, London (etc.) Longmans, Green, and co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
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sage; now you wont be hungry ! They were tied to the reindeer, the little robber-girlopened the door, made all the big dogs come away, cutthrough the halter with her sharp knife, and said to thereindeer, Run now! But take great care of the littlegirl. And Gerda stretched out her hands with the large furgloves towards the little robber-girl and said, Good-bye ! Then the reindeer flew over the ground, through thegreat forest, as fast as he could. The wolves howled, the ravens screamed, the skyseemed on fire. Those are my dear old Northern lights, said thereindeer; see how they shine ! And then he ran faster still, day and night. The loaves were eaten, and the sausage also, and thenthey came to Lapland. They stopped by a wretched little house; the roofalmost touched the ground, and the door was so low thatyou had to creep in and out. There was no one in the house except an old Laplandwoman who was cooking fish over an oil-lamp. Thereindeer told Gerdas whole history, but first he told his
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96 THE SNOW-QUEEN own, for that seemed to him much more important, andGerda was so cold that she could not speak. Ah, you poor creatures! said the Lapland woman; you have still further to go! You must go over ahundred miles into Finland, for there the Snow-queenlives, and every night she burns Bengal lights. I willwrite some words on a dried stock-fish, for I have nopaper, and you must give it to the Finland woman, for shecan give you better advice than I can. And when Gerda was warmed and had had somethingto eat and drink, the Lapland woman wrote on a driedstock-fish, and begged Gerda to take care of it, tied Gerdasecurely on the reindeers back, and away they wentagain. The whole night was ablaze with Northern lights, andthen they came to Finland and knocked at the Finlandwomans chimney, for door she had none. Inside it was so hot that the Finland woman worevery few clothes; she loosened Gerdas clothes and drewoff her fur gloves and boots. She laid a piece of ice onthe reindeers head

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