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She held his head above the water and let the waves drive them whithersoever they would 5
Then she saw her sisters rise from the water, they were as pale as she was 21
And he told her all about the storks, which bring beautiful children up out of the river 33
"I saw the prophet myself . . . his eyes were like shining stars, and his beard like foaming water" 37
She wanted to sit down on a pauper's grave where the bitter wormwood grew 43
"You can't know who I am." I chop the bad people's heads off, and I see that my axe is quivering" 47
She was so happy now, because the toad could not reach her and she was sailing through such lovely scenes 57
"Heavens, how beautiful it is!" he said, but then he had to attend to his business and forgot it 81
The eagle in the great forest flew swiftly, but the Eastwind flew more swiftly still 95
There she lay asleep already, beautiful as only the Fairy in the Garden of Paradise can be 105
"Look! the white bees are swarming" 123
The biggest snowflake became the figure of a woman. She was delicately lovely, but all ice, glittering, dazzling ice 141
She then said that she was sitting on "The Mirror of Reason," and that it was the best and only one in the world 155
If the public had seen their favorite how they would have shouted, "Bravo! Bravissimo! Punchinello" 179