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THE FLOATING PRINCE AND OTHER FAIRY TALES.
has come, and gone," cried Loris, looking about in every direction for the person who had knocked. "Oh, there he is! How could he have got away so far in such a short time? I must run after him."
So away she ran as fast as she could, after a man she saw, walking away from the cottage in the direction of a forest.
LORIS FOLLOWS THE SHORT MAN.
"Oh, dear!" she said, as she ran, "How fast he walks! and he is such a short man, too! He is going right to the hut of Laub, that wicked Laub, who is always trying to get away work from father, and he came first to our house, but thought there was nobody at home."
Loris ran and ran, but the short man did walk very fast. However, she gradually gained on him, and just as he reached
