They would obey his slightest wish, but as he was a kind old man and never told his dwarfs to do anything wrong, the people who lived near were not afraid.

"Idiot!" cried the dwarf.

Ugliness is trivial, the monstrous is terrible; Velasquez knew this when he painted his dwarfs.

"No he has not," said the Dryad, whose quick eyes perceived the Echo-dwarf among the rocks.

"Stupid, inquisitive goose!" replied the dwarf; "I meant to split the trunk, so that I could chop it up for kitchen sticks; big logs would burn up the small quantity of food we cook, for people like us do not consume great heaps of food, as you heavy, greedy folk do.

the people might not care To cheer a dwarf like me.

Such shrill and such harsh voices never met yet A-laughing as loud as they could, could, could, A-laughing as loud as they could. Come Jinnie, come dwarf, cocksparrow, and bee, There's a ring gaudy-green in the dell, Sing, sing, ye sweet cherubs, that flit in the tree; La! who can draw tears from a well, well, well, Who ever drew tears from

When Paul du Chaillu described the Obongo dwarfs of West Africa, his narrative was discredited; but four or five groups of dwarfs, probably numbering many thousands, are now known to be scattered from the lower border of Abyssinia to the Kalahara desert in the far south.

When Lizzie Hexam's brother and a friend, Bradley Headstone, paid their first visit to the house on Church Street, they knocked at the door, which promptly opened and disclosed a childa dwarf, a girlsitting on a little, low, old-fashioned arm-chair, which had a kind of little working-bench before it.

when, by ill-luck, the wind had entangled his beard in his line, and just afterwards a big fish taking the bait, the unamiable little fellow had not sufficient strength to pull it out; so the fish had the advantage, and was dragging the dwarf after it.

And what is the most beautiful or the most ungainly form before a sorcerer like this, who can endow a fair simpleton with the rarest intellect, or transform, by a glance, the intellectual, noble-hearted dwarf to an angel of light?

"Ho, ho!" exclaimed the dwarf; "what are you doing here?

They all drew out at once their swords of tempered bronze, cast down to them centuries since on stormy nights when their fathers, drew them and faced the dwarfs, and casting their idleness from them, fell on them, sword to axe.

They formed a family circleof dwarfs.

While he was thus engaged he heard shrill cries, and looking up, he saw a giant holding a dwarf and about to devour him.

Up jumped the dwarf in extremest terror, but could not get to his hiding-place, the bear was too close to him; so he cried out in very evident anguish "Dear Mr. Bear, forgive me, I pray!

No other tree that I know dwarfs so regularly and completely as this under changes of climate due to changes in elevation.

And the king commanded: "Let all the dwarfs of Lunka Bring rags from near and far; Call all the dwarfs of Lunka To soak them all in tar!"

They planted tobacco on the mountain side and were happy and prosperous, The fields stretched almost to the top of the mountain and the plants grew well, for every night Harisaboqued would order his dwarfs to attend to them, and though the tobacco was high up it grew faster and better than that planted in the valley below.

But, instead of following this advice, Dietrich persuaded the dwarf to show him the way to the giant's retreat.

Often, too, he would conduct games at night, and sometimes he would pit dwarfs [Footnote: Reading [Greek: nanous] (Dindorf)] and women against each other.

Remembering that a comrade-in-arms possessed a Turkish dwarf with an abnormally large head, he cast about to procure some such monstrosity for her amusement.

"A man," returned the dwarf, "who keeps his eyes open may almost cease to be surprised at any thing.

The cook who served up the dwarf in a pie (to continue the frolic) might have lapped up such an historian as this in the bill of fare.

The king consented, but the moment he set the dwarf free he felt him snatch the ring his mother had given him off his hand, and saw him mysteriously and suddenly disappear, his voice sounding tauntingly now on one side, now on the other.