it began to grow dark already; and suppose night were to come oncompletely! Was she to be left sitting on the bough all night long?No, the little maid could not make up her mind to that. "I"ll staywith you," she said, although she felt anything but happy in her mind.She could almost fancy she distinctly saw little gnomes, with theirhigh-crowned hats, sitting in the bushes; and further back in the longwalk, tall spectres appeared to be dancing. They came nearer andnearer, and stretched out their hands towards the tree on which thedoll sat; they laughed scornfully, and pointed at her with theirfingers. Oh, how frightened the little maid was! "But if one has notdone anything wrong," she thought, "nothing evil can harm one. Iwonder if I have done anything wrong?" And she considered. "Oh, yes! Ilaughed at the poor duck with the red rag on her leg; she limped alongso funnily, I could not help laughing; but it"s a sin to laugh atanimals." And she looked up at the doll. "Did you laugh at the ducktoo?" she asked; and it seemed as if the doll shook her head."
TWENTY-SECOND EVENING
"I looked down upon Tyrol," said the Moon, "and my beams causedthe dark pines to throw long shadows upon the rocks. I looked at thepictures of St. Christopher carrying the Infant Jesus that are paintedthere upon the walls of the houses, colossal figures reaching from theground to the roof. St. Florian was represented pouring water on theburning house, and the Lord hung bleeding on the great cross by thewayside. To the present generation these are old pictures, but I sawwhen they were put up, and marked how one followed the other. On thebrow of the mountain yonder is perched, like a swallow"s nest, alonely convent of nuns. Two of the sisters stood up in the towertolling the bell; they were both young, and therefore their glancesflew over the mountain out into the world. A travelling coach passedby below, the postillion wound his horn, and the poor nuns lookedafter the carriage for a moment with a mournful glance, and a teargleamed in the eyes of the younger one. And the horn sounded faint andmore faintly, and the convent bell drowned its expiring echoes."
TWENTY-THIRD EVENING
Hear what the Moon told me. "Some years ago, here in Copenhagen, Ilooked through the window of a mean little room. The father and motherslept, but the little son was not asleep. I saw the flowered cottoncurtains of the bed move, and the child peep forth. At first I thoughthe was looking at the great clock, which was gaily painted in redand green. At the top sat a cuckoo, below hung the heavy leadenweights, and the pendulum with the polished disc of metal went toand fro, and said "tick, tick." But no, he was not looking at theclock, but at his mother"s spinning wheel, that stood justunderneath it. That was the boy"s favourite piece of furniture, but hedared not touch it, for if he meddled with it he got a rap on theknuckles. For hours together, when his mother was spinning, he wouldsit quietly by her side, watching the murmuring spindle and therevolving wheel, and as he sat he thought of many things. Oh, if hemight only turn the wheel himself! Father and mother were asleep; helooked at them, and looked at the spinning wheel, and presently alittle naked foot peered out of the bed, and then a second foot, andthen two little white legs. There he stood. He looked round once more,to see if father and mother were still asleep- yes, they slept; andnow he crept softly, softly, in his short little nightgown, to thespinning wheel, and began to spin. The thread flew from the wheel, andthe wheel whirled faster and faster. I kissed his fair hair and hisblue eyes, it was such a pretty picture.
"At that moment the mother awoke. The curtain shook, she lookedforth, and fancied she saw a gnome or some other kind of littlespectre. "In Heaven"s name!
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