Now it was too late , he could not get back to land . Perhaps he would be lost out on the great sea . What should he do ? When he had shouted until he was tired and no one heard him , he put his two little hands together and said , ` Good God , do not be angry with Little Lasse . ' And then he went to sleep . For although it was daylight , old Nukku Matti was sitting on the shores of the ` Land of Nod , ' and was fishing for little children with his long fishing rod . He heard the low words which Little Lasse said to God , and he immediately drew the boat to himself and laid Little Lasse to sleep on a bed of rose leaves . Then Nukku Matti said to one of the Dreams , ` Play with Little Lasse , so that he does not feel lonesome . ' It was a little dream-boy , so little , so little , that he was less than Lasse himself ; he had blue eyes and fair hair , a red cap with a silver band , and white coat with pearls on the collar . He came to Little Lasse and said , ` Would you like to sail round the world ? ' ` Yes , ' said Lasse in his sleep , ' I should like to . ' ` Come , then , ' said the dream-boy , ` and let us sail in your pea-shell boats . You shall sail in Hercules and I shall sail in The Flea . ' So they sailed away from the ` Land of Nod , ' and in a little while Hercules and The Flea were on the shores of Asia away at the other end of the world , where the Ice Sea flows through Behring Straits into the Pacific Ocean . A long way off in the winter mist they could see the explorer Nordenskiold with his ship Vega trying to find an opening between the ice . It was so cold , so cold ; the great icebergs glittered strangely , and the huge whales now lived under the ice , for they could not make a hole through with their awkward heads . All around on the dreary shore there was snow and snow as far as the eye could see ; little grey men in shaggy skins moved about , and drove in small sledges through the snow drifts , but the sledges were drawn by dogs . ` Shall we land here ? ' asked the dream-boy . ` No , ' said Little Lasse . '
I am so afraid XXXXX the whales would swallow us up , and the big dogs bite us .
So for from of on than that to under until