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Hans Christian Andersen's Tales: The Elfin Mound
From: Great Works of Literature
Date: 19920101
Author:Andersen, Hans Christian
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The Elfin Mound
Several large lizards were running quickly into the cleft of an old tree; they could understand each other perfectly, for they all spoke the lizard language.
"What a noise there is in the old Elfin mound!" said one of the Lizards. "What a rumbling and uproar! For two nights I have not been able to close my eyes, and might just as well have had a toothache, for then I certainly should not have slept."
"There is a something going on there," said the other Lizard. "They let the mound stand on four red poles ...
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