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The Little People of the Snow

The Little People of the Snow

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the little
People of the Snow.

BY

WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT.

Illustrated



FROM DESIGNS BY ALFRED FREDERICKS, ENGRAVED BY A. BOBBETT.



NEW YORK:
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY,
549 & 551 BROADWAY. 1873.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1872,
By D. APPLETON & CO.,
In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.


Snow Girl
Eva


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THE LITTLE PEOPLE OF THE SNOW.

Alice.—One of your old-world stories, Uncle John,
Such as you tell us by the winter fire,
Till we all wonder it has grown so late.
Uncle John.—The story of the witch that ground to death
Two children in her mill, or will you have
The tale of Goody Cutpurse?


Alice.—               Nay, now, nay;
Those stories are too childish, Uncle John,
Too childish even for little Willy here,
And I am older, two good years, than he;
No, let us have a tale of elves that ride,
By night, with jingling reins, or gnomes of the mine,
Or water-fairies, such as you know how
Land of Elves and Gnomes
To spin, till Willy's eyes forget to wink,
And good Aunt Mary, busy as she is,
Lays down her knitting.
Uncle John.—     Listen to me, then.
'Twas in the olden time, long, long ago,
And long before the great oak at our door
Was yet an acorn, on a mountain's side

Cottager's home top
Cottager's waterfall Lived, with his wife, a cottager. They dwelt
Beside a glen and near a dashing brook,
A pleasant spot in spring, where first

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