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Rh horizon, threw her unsteady light between the tops of the trees. As we passed the deserted mountain-dairy, we must have crossed the fresh track of a hare, because the hounds became rather uneasy in the couples. who tried all he could to keep the dogs back, *' because it isn't as it should be about here ! " " I think you are right there, Matthias," I said ; " it isn't as it should be, because it isn't light enough for shooting ; else, were the moon clear of the trees yonder, we would soon make it all right, and the hounds would, as sure as I am here, treat you to the best music for a sportsman's ear." '* That may be," he continued, and he looked cautiously back at the dairy, "but they do say the huldre^ is hereabouts at this time." •* Ah, indeed, perhaps you have seen her yourself.^" " No, I have never seen her here," he said. " But where did you see her then, Matthias ? " I asked curiously ; brownies." " Well, shouldn't I believe what there's written in the Scriptures }" he said. " Why, when the Lord banished the fallen angels, some of them went down below there, of course," and he pointed signifi- cantly downwards ; "but they who had not sinned overmuch, are up in the air, under the ground, or in the sea. Besides I have myself often heard them and seen them in the woods and glens about here." nothing else to do while we walk along." "If you care to listen to it, of course I shall tell you all I know," he answered, and commenced his story. "Well, the first time I came across the huldre, I was about eight or nine years old, and it was somewhere up on the main road between Bjerke and Mo. I had been on a message for my father, and was walking home along the road, when I saw a tall,
 * ' Now it depends 'pon the strength of the couples,'* said Matthias,
 * for I see you believe that there are such beings as fairies and
 * ' You must tell me something about them," I asked ; '* we have
 * The Non^'Cgian Fairy of the Woods.