HARBINOTON) 



CHILDREN'S STORIES 



341 



NO. 3. SONG OF THE ELF AS HE IS PACKED ALONG 



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Transcription by Helen H. Roberts. 



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TRANSLATION 



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Only the last two lines have meaning: "A person who is very 

 kind is packing me along." 



"Do not move so much. You are very heavy." The 01(^ Giant 

 was going along all sweating. 



When he brought the Elf to his home, the Old Giant was tired out, 

 and lay down to take a nap. Then the Elf came out and found a 

 pile of bones. He had a medicine bag tied on his person, and took 

 the medicine out and spit it on the bones. Then he told the bones: 

 "Little children, get up!" Then he sent two of them to look for 

 pitch. After they brought the pitch, they put pitch all over the 

 Elf, and he turned the children again into bones. 



The Elf went into the Old Giant's house. When the Old Giant 

 woke up, he fixed the fire. "Let me see; come this way, little one," 

 he said to the Elf. The Giant said as he looked at him: "To-night 

 I shall have a feast. This must be a very fat child." And he put 

 him in the fire to roast. The Elf, spitting on the fire, entered the fire. 

 Then he sang: 



