The Wizard’s Fairy Tale

fifth story little robber girl

They drove through the thick woods. But the car shone like a torch, and dazzled the eyes of some of the robbers, who could bear it no longer.

"That's gold! That's gold!" they cried. They rushed forward, stopped the horses, killed the riders, coachmen, and servants, and finally dragged Gerda from the cart.

"She was fat...she was beautiful...she grew up on walnut pits!" said the old Bandit woman. Her beard grew long and hard, and her shaggy eyebrows covered her eyes.

"She's like a fat little lamb! Oh, it's delicious!"

So she drew out a shining knife—a knife that shone frighteningly.

"Ouch!" cried the old woman at the same time, for her own daughter crawled on her back and bit her ear; she was a naughty and wild child, and liked such pleasures. "You naughty child!" said the mother, so that she would not have time to kill Gerda.

"I want her to play with me!" said the little robber girl. "She must give me her muff and her pretty dress, and sleep with me in the bed!"

Then the child bit her again, and the old robber woman jumped up and twirled again; and the other robbers laughed, and said at the same time, "Look how well she dances with her imp!"

"I'm going to get in that car!" said the little robber girl.

She can do what she wants, because she is a very presumptuous and stubborn child. In the car she and Gerda drove over stumps and brambles until they reached the forest. The little robber girl was the same age as Gerda, but she had a stronger body and broader shoulders. Her skin was brown and her eyes were dark, almost gloomy. She hugged little Gerda by the waist and said:

"They can't kill you as long as I'm not mad at you. You're a princess, I suppose?"

"No," said little Gerda. So she told her what had happened to her, and how she liked little Kay.

The little robber girl gave her a serious look, nodded slightly, and said at the same time, "Even if I'm angry with you, they can't kill you, because then I will do it myself."

So she wiped away Gerda's tears, and put her hands in the soft, warm muff.

Now the carriage finally stopped. They came into the courtyard of the robber's palace. The palace was riddled with cracks from top to bottom. Dordos and crows flew out of the open holes, and great bulldogs—each as if they could swallow a man—jumped high, but they didn't bark, because it was forbidden.

In a great old, smoky room, a fire blazed on a stone-paved floor. Smoke swirls under the ceiling, trying to find a way out. A great pot of soup was simmering, and many rabbits and hares were roasting on irons.

"You'll sleep with me and my animals tonight," said the little robber girl.

They ate and drank something, and went into a corner where there was straw and a carpet. Here were more than a hundred pigeons perched on the planks and perches. They were all about to fall asleep. But when the two girls came, they turned their heads and took a look.

"These things are mine," said the little robber girl. So she immediately grabbed the one at hand, lifted its legs and shook it a few times until it flapped its wings wildly. "Kiss it!" she exclaimed, slapping Gerda across the face. "There are some wood bastards sitting there," she went on, pointing to a wooden barn against the wall. a hole. "Both of these things are bastards in the woods. If you don't lock them up, they'll fly off in no time. Now look at my old love 'ba'." She grabbed a reindeer by the horns and pulled It drags out. It was sheathed; around its neck was a ring of polished brass. "We had to keep it tight, or it would get away.

Every night I scratched his neck with a sharp knife--he was terribly afraid of it. "

The little girl then took out a long knife from the crack in the wall and slid it on the reindeer's neck a few times. The poor animal flicked its legs. The little robber girl laughed and dragged Gerda into the bed.

"Do you also keep this knife with you when you sleep?" asked Gerda, looking at it in horror.

"I always sleep with my knife!" replied the little robber girl, "because no one knows what accidents may happen. But now please tell me about Kay and why you came to this university." The reason why you came from the world, tell me again."

Gerda told the story all over again. The turtledove cooed in the upper cage, while the others fell asleep. The little robber girl, with one arm around Gerda's neck and the knife in the other, also fell asleep—these movements could be heard. But Gerda couldn't close her eyes anyway—she didn't know whether she was going to live or die.

The robbers sat round the fire, singing and drinking. The old robber woman turned somersaults. A little girl would have been terrified to see this.

Then the turtledoves said: "Coo! Coo! We see little Kay. A white hen with his sleigh on her back: he sits in the Snow Queen's carriage. While we are in the nest, the car is low." Lowland flew over the woods. She blew on our little turtledove: all dead but us two. Coo! coo!"

"What do you talk about there?" asked Gerda. "Where did Snow White travel? Do you know?"

"She's probably gone to Lapland, because there's snow and ice all year round. Ask that reindeer on the rope."

"There is ice and snow, there is splendor!" said the reindeer, "where men can leap freely in the shining valleys! There the Snow Queen pitches her summer tent, but her usual palace is near the North Pole." An island called Spitsbergen."

"Oh, Kay, little Kay!" sighed Gerda.

"Lie still," said the little Robber Girl, "or I'll put a knife in your belly!"

Next morning Gerda told her all that the Turtledove had said. The little Robber Girl looked very serious, but she nodded and said, "Never mind! Never mind! Do you know where Lapland is?" she asked the reindeer.

"Who knows better than I?" said the Reindeer, rolling its eyes over its head. "I was born there, I grew up there. I jumped in the snow there."

"Listen!" said the little robber girl to Gerda. "You know: our men are all gone. Only mother stays, and she'll stay here. But towards noon she'll drink from the big bottle, and she'll take a nap, Then I will help you again!"

She jumped out of bed, put her arms around her mother's neck, tugged at her beard, and said, "Good morning, my dear old goat."

Her mother tapped her on the nose a few times, making her red and blue—but it was all out of true motherly love.

After Mom drank something from the bottle, she fell asleep. The little robber girl went up to the reindeer and said, "I'd love to stab you a few more times with a sharp knife, because that would make you look funny. But that's all right, I'll untie your rope and let you out so that you Can run to Lapland. But you'll have to use your legs well and take the little girl to Snow Queen's palace - where her playmates are. You've heard her Talk to me, because she speaks loudly, and you're eavesdropping!"

The reindeer jumped up and down happily. The little robber girl took little Gerda on its back, and fastened her very carefully, and even gave her a little cushion for a seat.

"Never mind," she said, "you put on your boots, for it's getting cold. I'll keep the muff, though, because it's lovely! But you won't be cold yet. These are my mother's big gloves, and they go right up to your elbows. Put them on! Your hands are really like my ugly mother's now."

Gerda wept with joy.

"I can't bear to see you shed a big pool of tears!" said the little robber girl. "You ought to look happy now. Take these two loaves of bread and a piece of ham, and you won't starve."

These things are tied to the reindeer's back. The little robber girl opened the door and coaxed some big dogs into the house. So she cut the rope with a knife, and said to the reindeer:

"You run! But please take good care of this little girl!"

Gerda stretched out her big-gloved hands to the little robber girl, and said, "Good-bye!" Mercedes Benz. Jackals are howling, crows are croaking. "Hush! Shh!" was the voice in the air. The sky seemed to be on fire.

"That's my dear old Northern Lights!" said the Reindeer, "look how bright it is!" So he ran faster, day and night.

When the bread was gone, as was the ham, they reached Lapland.

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① Lapland (Lapand) is a place in the north of Sweden, Norway and Finland, which is very cold.

② Spitsbergen (Spiyzbergen) is an archipelago in the Arctic Ocean, belonging to Norway.

Sixth Story Lapland Woman and Finn Woman

They stopped in front of a small house. The house was very humble; its roof was so low that it almost touched the ground; its doors were so low that the members of the family had to crawl on the ground when they wanted to go in and out. There was no one in the house but an old woman who was frying fish over an oil lamp. The reindeer told all of Gerda's experiences, but he told his own first, because he thought his own was the most important. Gerda was so cold that she couldn't even utter a word.

"Oh, you poor things!" said the Lappish woman, "you have a long way to go! You still have to run more than three hundred Danish miles to get to Finnmark, because the Snow Queen is there Holidays in the country. She sets off blue fireworks every night. I'll write something on a dried cod, because I don't have paper, and you can take it to an old Finnish woman—she'll tell you more Lots of news."

When Gerda had warmed up, ate and drank something, the Lappish woman wrote some words on a dried cod and told Gerda to hold it well, and tied her to the reindeer's back Come on, the deer jumped away immediately, "Hoo! Hoo!" it said high in the air. The most beautiful, azure-blue Northern Lights shine non-stop all night long.

So they came to Finnmark, and they knocked on the Finnish woman's chimney, because she didn't even have a door.

It was very hot in the house, and Finnish women lived there almost naked. She is small in stature and dirty. She undressed Gerda at once, and took off her large gloves and boots, otherwise Gerda would be too hot. She put a piece of ice on the reindeer's head and read the writing on the cod - she read it three times in a row. When she knew the words by heart, she threw the fish into a soup pot to cook, for it was edible, and she was one who never wasted anything.

The reindeer told first her own story, and then that of little Gerda, and the Finn blinked her wise eyes without saying a word.

"You are very clever," said the reindeer, "and I know you can sew all the winds in the world together with one thread. If the captain unties a knot, he can have good wind; Tie the second knot, and the wind will blow harder; but when he untie the third and fourth knots, there will be a storm that can blow the woods down. Will you give this little girl How about something to drink, so that she can have the strength of 12 men to subdue the Snow Queen?"

"The power of 12 people!" said the Finnish woman. "It works!"

She went to the shelf, took down a large bundle of hides, and opened the bundle. It has many strange letters written on it. The Finnish woman read until beads of sweat dripped from her forehead.

But the reindeer begged very earnestly for little Gerda, and Gerda herself looked at the Finn woman with tearful, imploring eyes. The woman also began to blink, and led the reindeer to a corner, and put a piece of fresh ice on its back, and said, "Of course little Kay lives at the Snow Queen's. What does he think there?" Everything was to his liking and idea. He thought it was the most beautiful place in the world. But it was because he had a mirror fragment in his heart and a mirror fragment in his eye. They had to be removed first. Come out, or he will never be a man. But the Snow Queen will do everything in her power to keep him!"

"But can you give little Gerda something that will give her strength to overcome all difficulties?"

"I can't give her more power than she has now: don't you see how great it is? Don't you see how men and animals serve her? Don't you see her bare feet How far has she run in the world? She doesn't need us to know her own strength. Her strength is in her heart; Go to the Snow Queen and get the shards of glass out of little Kay, then we can't help her! The Snow Queen's garden begins two miles from here. You can take the little girl to Go there: put her in the snow by a big saffron-berry bush. Don't stay there gossiping, come back here before it's too late!"

So the Finn woman carried Gerda on the reindeer's back. It flies as fast as it can.

"Oh, I don't have my boots on! I don't have my gloves on!" cried little Gerda.

She felt a piercing cold at once; but the reindeer dared not stop: it ran to the side of the bush full of red berries. It put Gerda down and kissed her on the mouth, and big bright tears rolled down her cheeks. It ran back as fast as it could. Poor Gerda stood there, in that terrible, cold Finnmark, without shoes or big gloves.

She ran forward desperately. A snowflake rolls over. It didn't fall from the sky, because the sky was very clear and the northern lights shot out. Snowflakes roll along the ground. The closer it got, the bigger it got. Gerda remembered how big and beautiful the snowflakes had been when she had looked out through the hot glass. But here they were huge and terrifying—they were alive. They are the Snow Queen's outposts, and they are oddly shaped. Some looked like big ugly hedgehogs; They were all sparkling white, living snowflakes.

Little Gerda said the Lord's Prayer. It was so cold she could see her own breath coming out of her mouth like smoke. The exhaled breath became thicker and thicker, forming a bright little angel. As soon as they touch the ground, they get bigger and bigger. They all wore helmets and carried spears and shields. Their numbers are increasing. When Gerda finished saying her prayers, a large army appeared around her. These soldiers stabbed the terrible snowflakes with their spears, and smashed them into countless pieces. So little Gerda went on steadily and courageously. Angel stroked her hands and feet so that she felt less cold. She hurried to the Snow Queen's palace.

But now we have to see what Kay is up to. He did not think at all of little Gerda, still less that she was standing at the palace gate.

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①Finnmark (Finnmark) is the northernmost county in Norway and the northernmost region in Europe, which is extremely cold.

② refers to the Northern Lights.

The Seventh Story: What Happened in the Snow Queen's Palace and Its Consequences

The walls of the palace are made of snow, and the biting wind is its windows and doors. There are more than a hundred houses in it, all formed by blowing snowflakes together. The largest of them was several miles long. The intense Northern Lights light them up; they are very large, very empty, very cold and very bright. There was never any joy here, not even at Bear's ball. In fact, the blizzard is likely to play a little music here, allowing the polar bears to stride on their hind legs and put on a show of their awesomeness. They don't even have gadgets to slap their mouths or tap their paws. The young white fox girls never had any little tea parties either.

The halls of the Snow Queen are empty, vast, and cold. The Northern Lights are so accurate, you can work out when it's highest and lowest. In the middle of this empty, boundless hall of snow there is a frozen lake--it breaks into a thousand pieces; but each piece is exactly the same shape as the other pieces, so it is like a perfect art Taste. When Snow White is at home, she sits in the middle of the lake. She said herself that she sat in the mirror of reason, and that it was the only mirror, the best mirror in the world.

Little Kay was blue with cold--almost black with cold, indeed, but he didn't feel it, for the Snow Queen kissed the chill away from him. His heart was like a block of ice. He was moving several flat and sharp pieces of ice, trying to piece them together into something. This is just as if we want to make a pattern out of several pieces of wood—the so-called Chinese toys. Kay is also working on a pattern—the most intricate pattern.

It's called the intellectual ice cube game. In his eyes, these patterns were the most remarkable and very important things; it was all because of the shard of mirror in his eye. He laid out these patterns to form a word - but he couldn't form the word he wanted - "eternal". So the Snow Queen said, "If you can spell this pattern, then you are your own master. I will give you the whole world and a new pair of skates as presents."

But he couldn't spell it.

"Now I'm anxious to fly to warm countries!" said the Snow Queen. "I'm going to see the black pots!" She was referring to the volcanoes we call Etna and Vesuvius. Volcano②. "I'll make them whiter! There's a need for that; it's good for grapes and lemons."

So the Snow Queen flew away. Kay sat alone in the large, empty ice palace that was several miles long, staring blankly at his blocks of ice. He fell into deep thought and almost broke his head. He sat upright and motionless, and one might have thought he had frozen to death.

Just then little Gerda happened to pass through the gate and came into the palace. The wind was sharp here, but when she had said her vespers it was still, as if she had gone to sleep. She entered the large, empty, cold room and saw Kay. She recognized him immediately. She fell on top of him, embraced him, held him tight, and cried out at the same time:

"Kay, dear little Kay! I finally found you!"

But he sat motionless, erect and indifferent. Then little Gerda shed many tears. The tears flowed down his breast, seeped into his heart, melted the snow in there, and disintegrated a small piece of mirror in there. He looked at her, and she sang a hymn:

Roses grow in abundance in the valley,

There we meet the Baby Jesus.

Then Kay burst into tears. He cried so much that even the mirror powder from his eyes flowed out. He recognized her now, and he cried joyfully: "Gerda, dear Gerda! Where have you been so long? Where have I been?" He looked round. "How cold it is here! How wide and empty it is here!"

He hugged Gerda tightly. She was so happy that she cried and laughed at other times. They were so happy that the ice cubes around them danced for joy. When they lay down because of fatigue, the two of them formed exactly a pattern of a word - Snow White once said that if he could spell this pattern, he would become his own master, and at the same time she would give him the whole world and a new pair of ice boots.

Gerda kissed his cheeks: they were like blooming flowers; she kissed his eyes: they shone like her own; she kissed his hands and feet, and he became healthy and lively again stand up. The Snow Queen could come home now, but the letter of his emancipation was already shining brightly on the ice.

They walked out of the huge ice palace arm in arm. They talked about grandma, about the roses on the roof. Wherever they went, the wind died down, and at the same time the sun came out. When they came to the red-berry bush, the reindeer were there waiting for them. It also brought another calf. The doe's nipples were full, so she gave the two little ones warm milk and kissed their mouths at the same time. They sent Kay and Gerda first to the Finnish woman. They warmed up in her warm room for a while, and got some directions as to the way home. Then they went to the Lappish women. The woman had made new clothes for them, and had repaired her sled.

Reindeer and calf hopped beside them, escorting them all the way to the border. The early spring plants here are already sprouting green shoots. They said goodbye to the two reindeer and the Lappish woman. "Good-bye!" everyone said. The birds in early spring began to murmur and sing; the woods were covered with a layer of green shoots. A beautiful horse ran out of the woods. Gerda knew it because it was the same horse that had drawn the golden carriage. A young girl rides it. She wore a bright red hat on her head, and she carried a pistol. This is the little robber girl. She was tired of staying at home, and wanted to go to the North first; if she didn't like that place, then go somewhere else. She recognized Gerda at once; Gerda recognized her. They were very happy to meet.

"You're a lovely tramp!" she said to little Kay. "I want to ask, is it worth it for you to let someone rush to the sky to find you?"

But Gerda touched her face, and asked about the prince and the princess.

"They've all traveled abroad!" said the little Robber Girl.

"But what about the crow?" asked little Gerda.

"Well, the crow is dead," answered the little robber-girl, "and the tame lover is a widow, with a black down on his leg! He is very sad, but there is nothing in it." Meaning! Now tell me your story, how did you find him?"

Gerda and Kay both told the story.

"Hiss-hee-chih!" said the little robber girl. So she shook hands with both of them, and promised at the same time that if she ever passed through their city, she would pay them a visit. Then she rode her horse and ran into the vast big world. Gerda and Kay walked arm in arm. What they saw on the road was a beautiful spring with green branches and green leaves and flowers. The church bells rang, and they recognized the steeples and the great city in which they lived. They went into the city and came to the door of the grandmother's house; they climbed the stairs and went into the room where everything was where it was. The big clock was "tick-tick", and the needle on it was also turning. But as soon as they walked out the door, they found that they had grown into adults. The roses on the spout were blooming in front of the open window. Here are several chairs for children to sit on. Kay and Gerda sat in their chairs, holding each other's hands. Like a great dream, they had forgotten all about the cold and empty splendor of the Snow Queen. Grandma sat in God's bright sun and read the Bible aloud: "Unless you become a child, you will never enter the kingdom of God!"③

Kay and Gerda looked at each other face to face, and immediately understood the meaning of the hymn——

Roses grow in abundance in the valley,

There we meet the Baby Jesus.

The two of them sat there, grown-ups, but also children--children at heart. It was summer now, warm, pleasant summer.

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