Therefore he decreed that one day in every hundred years I should change into a little raspberry worm , and live in that weak and helpless form from sunrise to sunset . During that time my life is dependent on the little worm 's life , so that a bird can eat me , a child can pick me with the berries and trample under foot my thousand years of life . Now yesterday was just my transformation day , and I was taken with the raspberry and would have been trampled to death if you had not saved my life . Until sunset I lay helpless in the grass , and when I was swept away from your table I twisted one of my feet , and my mouth became crooked with terror ; but when evening came and I could take my own form again , I looked for you to thank you and reward you . Then I found you both here in my kingdom , and tried to meet you both as well as I could without frightening you . Now I will send a bird from my wood to show you the way home . Good-bye , little children , thank you for your kind hearts ; the raspberry king can show that he is not ungrateful . ' The children shook hands with the old man and thanked him , feeling very glad that they had saved the little raspberry worm . They were just going when the old man turned round , smiled mischievously with his crooked mouth , and said : ` Greetings to Otto from me , and tell him when I meet him again I shall do him the honour of eating him up . ' ` Oh , please do n't do that , ' cried both the girls , very frightened . ` Well , for your sake I will forgive him , ' said the old man , ' I am not revengeful . Greetings to Otto and tell him that he may expect a gift from me , too . Good-bye . ' The two girls , light of heart , now took their berries and ran off through the wood after the bird ; and soon it began to get lighter in the wood and they wondered how they could have lost their way yesterday , it seemed so easy and plain now . One can imagine what joy there was when the two reached home . Everyone had been looking for them , and the big sister had not been able to sleep , for she thought the wolves had eaten them up . Otto met them ; he had a basket in his hand and said : ` Look , here is something that an old man has just left for you . ' When the girls looked into the basket they saw a pair of most beautiful bracelets of precious stones , dark red , and made in the shape of a ripe raspberry and with an inscription : ` To Lisa and Aina ' ; beside them there was a diamond breast pin in the shape of a raspberry worm : on it was inscribed ` Otto , never destroy the helpless ! ' Otto felt rather ashamed : he quite understood what it meant , but he thought that the old man 's revenge was a noble one . The raspberry king had also remembered the big sister , for when she went in to set the table for dinner , she found eleven big baskets of most beautiful raspberries , and no one knew how they had come there , but everyone guessed .
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