They examined every bush and every hedge , but there was no Snowflake . And long after everyone else had given up hope Ivan and Marie would wander through the woods crying ` Snowflake , my dove , come back , come back ! ' And sometimes they thought they heard a call , but it was never the voice of Snowflake . And what had become of her ? Had a fierce wild beast seized her and dragged her into his lair in the forest ? Had some bird carried her off across the wide blue sea ? No , no beast had touched her , no bird had borne her away . With the first breath of flame that swept over her when she ran with her friends Snowflake had melted away , and a little soft haze floating upwards was all that remained of her . I Know What I Have Learned From the Danish . There was once a man who had three daughters , and they were all married to trolls , who lived underground . One day the man thought that he would pay them a visit , and his wife gave him some dry bread to eat by the way . After he had walked some distance he grew both tired and hungry , so he sat down on the east side of a mound and began to eat his dry bread . The mound then opened , and his youngest daughter came out of it , and said , ` Why , father ! why are you not coming in to see me ? ' ` Oh , ' said he , ` if I had known that you lived here , and had seen any entrance , I would have come in . ' Then he entered the mound along with her . The troll came home soon after this , and his wife told him that her father was come , and asked him to go and buy some beef to make broth with . ` We can get it easier than that ! ' said the troll . He fixed an iron spike into one of the beams of the roof , and ran his head against this till he had knocked several large pieces off his head .
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