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pleased; and when the storehouse was ready she proposed that they should set off to pay her parents a visit.
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THE ELF MAIDEN’S HOUSE
The old people welcomed them heartily, and summoned their neighbours, for many miles round, to a great feast in their honour. In fact, for several weeks there was no