174 Fairy Tales

not run out and caught him up in her arms
again.

‘Well, it is odd,” she said to her husband.

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“Certainly that red bow is something new.
Suppose we take off his collar.”

And when they had done so, there was
Barthel’s little note :—

“Dear father and mother,—We are quite
well, but very miserable, for the dwarfs have