Identifier: crystalpalaceoth00frar (find matches)
Title: The crystal palace : and other legends
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Frary, Marie Harriette, 1883- Stebbins, Charles M. (Charles Maurice), 1871-
Subjects: Legends
Publisher: New York : Stebbins
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
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e stern god began to sink down, down into the cold, black water. Oh, cried Hans was the man 104 Night of the Stolen Treasure drowned? No answered his mother, he was not drowned. The great god drew him down, down to the bottom of the lake, where he has a wonderful palace. In it there are all kinds of strange creatures. But what does the man do down there? Is he still alive? Yes; Mummel will not let him die; but keeps him, and makes him serve in the kitchen year after year. And does he not have any rest or any holidays? He does not need rest down there, because he is no longer mortal like us. But once a year he ceases, for a single night, to serve in the kitchen. He becomes a mortal again and comes back to earth. Every year on the day on which he committed his crime, he puts on his earthly clothes and comes up. And when he reaches the world, he suddenly finds himself at the place where he stole the treasure. He hears someone coming, and starts to flee with the treasure on his back. BilC LIBRARY
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The Night of the Stolen Treasure 105 Each time, he comes to the same spot on Mummelsee, and throws the sack into the lake. Just as before, too, he tries to hide in the bushes and is caught and held by them. Every year Mummel, angry as before, comes up and drags the man out of the bushes, and draws him down to his palace again. Many people have heard the strange noises in the bushes along the shore of the lake. Some of them imagine, too, that they have seen a strange form rising from the waters. They declare that on this night the lake is greatly disturbed. The wind is loud, and the bushes bend their heads down to the very water. On the night when these strange things happen, people are careful to avoid the place. Although they like to go there at other times, they would not wish to befound there on the Night of the Stolen Treasure. THE WATER SPRITES Mum MEL, the great angry water god, has many beautiful daughters. These he guards jealously, and will allow no one to see them in their maiden forms except by

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