I ILLINOIS Production Note Digital Rare Book Collections Rare Book 8: Manuscript Library University of Illinois Library at . Urbana—Champaign 2019 V . . I ,4 ‘ le "vW\ , . ' MNwr «M W’. a... p ,WWMW!W€W\JW ‘ , " '1 ,2. I ' ;v n ., j 3 {ILADZE‘QLP'JI'IIA: . _ 0 G4-.,_HE‘LN39ERSON & set-0., I ' N316; VCHESNUT mmm. ' ' 1852. l r»..x...u\/vv ~. , ~..t:\./' v ,. «L. b WI WNNflfiJVVV'\/'VV\4 NV V'Vrv me' xi v" w \/ xx" "woklmvvd — . ‘ m; ‘. ‘ ‘ _ . L A “.4 ~ ,< A ‘ ‘ a J; , 9 9 ~ _ ’v , a M; w «3% , w a a _ , ‘ "l ‘ ‘ r "‘1 Mini‘ \ V a - « _ . ) . ‘ a “a.“ A_ ‘1'” ,, u , n I _ ’ t , q .4 v. M gag , V ,<~.Ax:.t.'.:n.x w a ‘ w-: ”a. ' , ‘ _ I , . . . ‘. ' « (in .,.'_«»r,L.-4.~,1r I _ “. >v i;my'.‘*" ' A ‘ «5:95‘ .2 ‘wfiv'fi‘fiw'fimflm . .A ’ . - uwgmfififigfi w... \\ \\\ ~ . x \ 7 ~1W1N'w.mr;~aist ‘ V ‘ NUTCRACKER AND REERERRREE A FAIRY TALE. TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN, BY CHARLES A. DANA. \ ‘ PHILADELPHIA : C. G. HENDERSON, & 00., N. W. CORNER ARCH AND FIFTH STREETS. 1856. Enteled according to Act of Congress, in the year 1852, ‘ BY 0. G. HENDERSON & 00., in the Clerk’s Oflice of the District Court of the United States, in and for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. NUTCBAUKER AND SUGARDOLLY. ‘ CHAPTER 1. HOW A FRUIT DEALER ”AND HIS WIFE STEAL A NUT AND AN EGG, AND WHAT COMES or IT. A FRUIT dealer had gone through the country with his wife. He had bought nuts, and the wife eggs, and they were carrying home their purchases in baskets on their backs. And now they were on the road to the city, in order to sell their nuts and eggs there the next day. As it was hot weather they left the sunny (5) ‘NAAArnfi‘wgfi mamas? ~ " 6 NUTC‘RAOKER AND SUGARDOLLY. high road, and struck into a by-way that led through a little thicket, where it was shady and cool walking. Both sighed under the burden of their baskets, and reckoned up how much they would. make by them, and what they would buy with the money. ' While they were, talking it over, they came to the splendid garden of the Fairy ' Honeymouth. There was a Silver fence around it, with a great golden lattice-gate - and within there were wonderful shining flowers, such as thetWo travellers had never seen before; and birds of many glittering colors sat on the boughs of the great trees and sang mo’st sweetly. On each side of the golden gate there was a tree. One of them was a lofty nut tree NUTCRACKER AND SUGARDOLLY. 7 with green n—uts bigger than hen’s eggs; the other a beautiful large sugar tree, every bit of which was sugar. The trunk, the branches, the leaves, the blossoms, all were sugar The two wanderers stOOd at the gate and gazed through; they would have liked vastly to get in if only it had not been shut. “Just see 7’ said the man to his wife, “ what fine white sand the paths are strewed with.” _ “I believe it is sugar,” answered the wife, “ and «I must try it.” Then she wet her finger and, put it through the gate into the white sand and tasted of it; she was not mistaken, it tasted sweet, it was reallysugar. The woman would have been delighted to fill “tum-.3 Mao» wt yum” v 8 NUTCRACKER AND SUGARDOLLY. her pockets with the sugar, for she could not often buy any, the egg trade brought in so little money; and she often had to drink her, coffee without any sugar at all, but the lattice-work was too close _ and she could not get her hand through. At lastthe man said, “let us climb . upon the gate so that we can get a good look at the inside there.” So they they set their baskets ‘dOWn and climbed upon the latticed gate and looked“ into the garden, which was more splendid than any thing they had ever seen. By climbing up they had got so near to the nut and sugar trees that they saw a great nest with a beautiful, great, white egg in it. After they had looked at every thing, both wanted to try the ”WV. ,, w ‘ ‘ > ..,,\:'~;....,, . 1 any} s,,.L..,t./,.....z,.~.ggw - 16 NUTORACKER AND SUGARDOLLY. time, looking now at thelittle lady and now at the little man, and then at each other. At last the man said, “Wife, we have no children, and these littlecreatures are here; let us take them in the place of , children.’ ’ The wife agreed to this, and called the little ones into the room to give them some breakfast. The mannikin offered his hand to the little lady, and. both fol- lowed the man and his wife to the table. The man gave each a piece of bread and butter, but the little fellow made a dis- contented face, and the little lady turned up her nose with contempt, so that it was easy to see they did not like the fare. The wife gave them some coffee, but they did not like that either. This N_ .p....,~—.~.‘.a._. ismm‘mL—s. ‘ > NUTCRACKER AND SUGABBOLLY. 17 was vexatious, and the, wife said in an angry tone to her husband, “ This. is al- ways the way when people take other folk’s children, nothing but trouble comes of it.” The man tried to comfort his wife, and told her that the children would soon learn to eat if they were hungry, and perhaps they were now rather timid. Meanwhile the little fellow had gone to a basket of nuts that’stood in the corner, and crack, crack! bit open one after the other, and devoured them with great appetite. “Rascal,” cried the nut pedlar, “my nuts! That’s a fine storyf Let nuts alone, will you I” The little fellow made an ugly face, and dropped his under lip, ' '.‘nm\%"ww~'!flsfl~’ '18 NUTC‘RAOKEB AND SUGARDOLLY. so that the kernels of the nuts fell from his mouth. The wife had forgotten her coffee in astonishment, at the sharp bite of the little fellow, and now as she turned to drink it, she saw that the little lady had taken a lump of sugar While she was looking away, and was nibbling at it. “Oh, you little sweet tooth,” cried the” wife, “who told you to do that?” and she made haste and shut up the sugar bowl Both .were now quite angry at their adopted children. At last the wife asked, “well, what shall we call the children? They must have names, if we have to scold them.” “ I’ll call the little rogue Nut Cracker,” said the pedlar, “for he cracks them as if he had a knack at it.” NUTORACKER AND SUGARDOLLY. 19 “Yes, yes,” said the wife, “he’ll make fine times with the nuts, that you will find out, for if he goes on in this way yOu won’t make another penny with them.” The man answered in a tone of vexa- tion: “Don’t let us fret before the time ;, I won’t put the nuts again where he can get at them, and he has such ahig head and such a serious look that I’ll bet he will turnout a smart fellow and perhaps he will learn a great deal and he a dis- tinguished man. But with the little lady its a load ease if she eats sugar.” . “Leave the little one to me,” said the wife, somewhat excited, “she has nihbled a little sugar, and her name shall he Sugardolly. But I’ll fasten up the sugar bowl when there is any in it, and Dolly -&§q.%jm44;m>"v¢a - ' ~ é , g- ‘ > ,H 4‘" mar-mm . quay“ . ,ai‘. ”HM... vsf,~2’;I,-.~m-;H~ ..:_..-._...,,...:_n. . . , . , Mm”, N7 ,1 « . . > , , > . ., 20 NUTCRAOKER AND SUGARDOLLY. is a pretty little thing that one can take pleasure in. Perhaps she may marry a rich man, and that will bring us both Wealth and honor.” ‘ So the married pair talked over the _ matter, till at last each went to their business, the man to the market to sell his nuts, and the wife into the different houses to dispose of her eggs. Nutcracker and Sugardolly/ were shut up together. “ ‘ _ we. mafia—now," 1,, 4 t m r M i W. CHAPTER II. ' HOW IT eons WITH“ NUT CRACKER AND SUGAR- DOLLY AT THEIR FOSTERPARENTS. WHEN the little ones were alone, N ut- cracker came out of the corner, Where he - had sulkily crept, looked sharp about -l. .'; .'; "“Mfie' .1.“in .1“ - _‘..».‘:~«M_ , .r'M' , ,-..-L M”. the room, and saW a basket of nuts on a cupboard. He began at! once to climb up for them, but Sugardolly came to him and said, “Come, Nutcracker, let them be, perhaps you Will fall and break your neck or your legs, and when the man comes home and sees that you have been eating nuts, he Will surely scold.” ‘ (23) a ., ,7,“ “My" enigmamwm 24 . NUTOEACKER AND SUGARDOLLY. “Well, what of that,” muttered N ut- cracker, “ nuts taste well, and I must have some.” So saying, he mounted the cupboard, and sat down in the basket, and cracked away in high glee, and flung the shells down on the floor. ‘ When the man and his wife came home and saw the disorder, they. were very angry. The wife who liked tohave things neat, and made haste and got the broom and swept up the shells, and in doing it hit Nutcracker a thump that made him cry out with pain. Sugardolly who was sorry to see that ran out into the garden, where she plucked the flowers to suck out their honey. She called Nutcracker to her, for he had 'stolen after her with ' an angry face, and asked him to take NUTCRACKER AND SUGARDOLLY. 25 some of the sWeet flowers. . But he snarled at her, and said that-was no sort of food for him, she might keep them herself, he never could be satisfied with such things. He wanted nuts, and if he could not get. nuts why he. did not want any thing. _ Pretty soon the wife came into the garden to cut flowers for a boquet, when 'she saw the broken blossoms ”and per- ceived that Sugardolly still held some in her hand and suckedthem, she was an- gry for she did not like to lose the flowers, and so Dolly got a blow. At this N ut- cracker fell into a great rage, drew his sword, and went behind the woman, and cut and thrust at her legs. But she had ” thick stockings on and hardly felt it, and perhaps thought some insect stung her, ,_.x ' --_.s;lm...gar..ngt ' ninaafuw-r “We”, A, i ,2 , ,~ , .. ”was.“ a . .9...» 7 . a: l. .::;§,.._...l,._,fl,, ".fluflhgfipm , _ , .. < . . / , l wwmwtétxaewpmaw . ' 26 NUTORACKER AND SUGARDOLLY. or else Nutcracker would. have received a few'blows disc. . Things went on the next day and the next, and the'next, just as they did the first. Nutcracker was always on the watch for nuts, and when he found them ' he cracked and eat them without pay- ing any regard to Sugardolly’s entreaties, for she always hesought him not to ex- . cite the anger of their foster father. And soon the man did not know where he should hide his nuts so as to keep them safe from Nutcracker, who found his way into every corner of the house. (Once the pedlar had hung a basket full of nuts on a hook on the wall, for he thought that the rogue could not climb up the wall. But the man’s night-gown NUTCRACKER AND SUGARDOLLY. 27 hung on the hook also, and the little fel- low took hold of it and climbed up nim- bly and dexterously with his thin legs, till he got into the nut basket, and sat there as happy as a lord enjoying the nuts till the cracking betrayed him, and the man came and drove him down. Sugardolly, who was gay and pleasant, was much more liked by her foster pa- rents, than the grumbling Nutcracker, who made nothing but disorder in the house, and not only eat up the nuts when he could get at them, but kept away the ‘ peOple that came to the house to buy them. He frightened them so with his tricks, and was so spiteful and passionate towards all that bought nuts and carried them away, that they said he was a gob- 28 NUTCRACKER AND SUGARDOLLY. lin, and came no more to the house of the ’ nut" pedlar. The man saw how this was and so his dislike to Nutcracker increased more and more. » But Sugardolly loved Nutcracker very, much, for he was her constant companion, both when their foster parents were out and when» they were at home, and was always good and kind to her, always pro- tected her against danger, and did every thing to please her; ' When she danced and the surly dog of the nut pedlar tried to trip her up, he always drove him back with his sword, and when it rained out of doors he would steal out into the gar- den to get sweet flowers for Dolly, so thatzshe need not get, wet and spoil her silkdress. NUTCRACKER DEFENDING SUGARDOLLY. ‘ 4 y" ' u' “bur" ..._\ wk ‘ . N'UTCRACKER AND SUGARBOLLY. 31 ; Once when the two little creatures were alone in the room, and Dolly had been dancing about in high glee, she happened to hit the oil ju’g so that it fell over and the oil ran out. Dolly in terror ran behind the stove for she was afraid of the scolding of the woman. And as the latter came into the room and saw the oil spilt over the floor, she cried in a high passion, “Who has turned over the oil jug? Who has spilt the oil? Oil is dear and I shall have to scour a great while before I can get the stain out of the floor. ” Dolly could not stir for fear, but N ut- cracker stood quietly beside the oil can and said not a word. The woman thought he had thrown over the jug, and struck 'qu,‘ u.¢;.:¢,:14,m 7 . . , ,. ,. , ' ‘1‘ ‘ 7‘“ ”A“. ..., , ‘ yam“. 32 NUTCRAOKER AND SUGARDOLLY. him several hard blows. At this Dolly hastened out of her hiding place and confessed her fault with great sorrow. Then the woman stOpped striking N ut- cracker, lout he had already received the punishment, and Dolly cried and begged him not to be angry with her. The little; fellow looked quite kindly at Sugardolly, and from that time she loved Nutcracker twice as much as ever. But the little \ creatures did not have many happy days with their foster parents, for they would not give them either nuts or sugar or honeyflowers. However they had both good friends in the Cookerel and the hen, . from the first‘hour of their entrance into the house of their foster parents. The cockerel Secretly carried many a THE COCKEREL. 3 w»“‘ m‘W-(yui‘ ‘ «$.th NUTCRAOKER AND SUGARDOLLY. 35 nut to Nutcracker, and peOple often saw them walking together on the trough by the pump in the yard. And the hen ’Very often flew over the garden fence to get flowers for Sugardolly, and was often punished for it ; for whenever the woman saw her there, she drove her away with stones, and declared by all- that was good and great rshe would make the garden fence higher, so that the hens could not fly over into the garden. The nut pedlar and his wife often talked over with each other what should be done with the children. N utcracker, ' would eat nothing but nuts, and they were not designed for him, but wereto be sold, and beside the trade was much less profitable since the rogue had been ”,J‘ .‘,._{:. "waving,“- I 1 I l , ‘ v:%g.‘ww*m‘w€" » 36 NUTCRACKER AND SUGARDOLLY. in the house. And then he did not im- prove at all and learned nothing, so that nothing could he made of the plan of his studying and becoming a learned man. In short the foster parents had to confess that their adopted children were more trouble than pleasure to them, and they were really sorry that they had taken the nut and the egg. But Nutcracker, who was more and more discontented in the house, began to think how he could get secretly away. He was of the opinion that the forest would he the pleasantest placed to live in, especially on account of the nuts which were to he found there. But for his legs the way thither was too lOng, and he Could not walk so far. Then he went to his friend the cockerel and ,‘~._:.v,|;;\'. 11“.», .5 U ,V,.-,.. a». ‘ I ' > "W”: ‘5 “no?" “‘$}4“\wufzis‘$§¥3§fithey; 571 ~ i...» 9-i- NUTORACKER AND sueAnns-JLLY. 37' talked the plan over with him. The cockerel said he would take him on his baCk the next morning and fly with him to the forest. Nutcracker was delighted with this plan and went to tell it to Su- gardolly. At first she was alarmed at it, for she was afraid of being left alone, and thought the journey was dangerous. But when Nutcracker explained to her that he was only going to look after a better place for them‘ both to live in, and would soon return for her, she consented that he should go. The cockerel and the hen also had a long cackling and cluck- ing about it with each other in a corner \ of the yard, and at last all four were agreed that the cockerel and Nutcracker should go and explore, and then come : ' .: . m," , V , , aiumwalww , 3- " y 4- L. . , ,7. an...» .m. . , 9...“. 7 “Mn,” aet,i’»_..,..-.....rn» .,,_,A.4.7,_Armm . -'n::.-.‘-\i‘.‘tl§‘avp W}, J «3*, 38 NUTCRACKER AND SUGARDOLLY. for Sugardolly and the hen, and take them to some beautiful place where they could all live happily together. The next morning early, the cockerel crowedand clapped {his wings in anticipation of the journey, and Nutcracker leaped upon his back, took hold of his many—colored ruff, and they flew outof the window and over the wall toWards the green forest. \ i-x___?ze‘?&£§\\: , .1.»‘ _-, FLIGHT OF NUTCRACKER AND THE COCKEREL. ~:n§um:w~,mww- - ' - , 7 V ,u ,,; an new . . «hw‘ , , Asmu .. 4 Wimbnsumu .;_._W.»..:.‘,.,... A ’ ~ 7‘ " w, ““91" :_..«;,.;.m...r.»xrms.,_m' _ - - Jam-Vl’ bile'-.n~é>~ CHAPTER III. HOW SUGARDOLLY GRIEVES FOR NUTCRACKER, AND HOW SHE GOESAFTER HIM AND SEEKS’ FOR HIM, BUT DOES NOT FIND HIM. WHEN the fruit pedlar and his wife got up they wondered that all was so still in the house. The cockerel did not crow, the hen did not cackle, Sugardolly was not singing nor dancing, but sat still in a » corner, and Nutcracker was nowhere to ‘ be seen. They called him and hunted for him, but in vain. They looked under the stairs where the hen. had her nest; she was sitting in the farthest corner with (41) f’ ' iti‘lfi’W-o~fizfiyww~ ' 42 NUTCRACKER AND SUGARDOLLY. her head under her wing. Then they thought that Nutcracker must have met with some misfortune for he was always climbing about; they were glad to be rid of the little rascal who had caused them so much trouble. But they were very sorry that the handsome mottled cockerel was gone also. After that Sugardolly was stiller and sadder every day,'for she Vmiss'e'd Nut- cracker, who had been her constant com- panion, and when day after day passed. away without his return, she’ did not knew what to make of his long absence. She sought more and more the company , of the white hen, who was also unhappy at the absence of the cockerel, and they very often asked each other whether . “A 7%, i / afl/ / //// JAA/ // ’41/ WWI/”1 AV ’ ; //, . . , fl: \R m...“ ‘39“ a .‘y‘mfi‘ '9" WM" 1‘1" JQW‘M THE HEN. A, (1!. 1.4111111; 41 i J - Jed- a lam: 2-,». 4‘. n7; ' ‘~“\ 1931-. NUTCRACKER AND SUGARDOLLY. 45 Nutcracker and the cockerel would ever come back. The hen frequently took, long walks out of the yard into the street, in the hope that she might either see or hear something of the cockerel, but it was always 1n vain. Once she came back very quickly and very happy from such a walk, having in her bill a beautiful changeable feather, which she brought to Sugardolly. She told her that she, had found it on the way to the forest, and that she knew it was a feather-out of the cockerel’s ruff. “Now I am sure, said the hen, “that they have flown to the forest, and if you say so, Sugardolly, I will take you in the morning on my back, and you shall fly there with me, and’we will look for the r i , , , mw’wawfiurm- V . . . . V m ,, “a“, "if ’4...nz V “V ,... - ., «v ‘ . r“- . Velma-u». lam-- ‘ we». v?,'is,~),t;.._.._,:,.. . 4.8 NUTORAOKER AND SUGARDOLLY. c-ockerel and little Nutcracker.” Sugar- dolly agreed to this, for since Nutcracker had been away, she had not been happy. with her foster parents. They were more unkind to her because in her sorrow for her lost companion she did not want to dance and sing any more, and so amused them no longer. And now she hoped that she might find Nutcracker in the forest and with him lead a merry life. -The next morning early she mounted on the back of the good natured hen, which flew with her into the forest. And when the fruit dealer and his wife got up and went to their work, and the wife went to feed the fowls, she could notsee thewhite hen. Then she called Sugar- dolly, to ask her about the hen, for she NUTCRACKER AND SUGARDOLLY. 47 had noticed that the two were good friends, but ,Sugardolly was nowhere to g be found. At this—the man and his wife rejoiced to be rid of the children, who always reminded them of the wrong they had done. But they were very sorry in- deed that the white hen was gone which laid so many eggs. After a short and happy journey the hen and Sugardolly'alighted in the forest-4 and as soon as Sugardolly had dismounted, she began her search for the cockerel and Nutcracker. The hen cackled as loud as she could, and was lucky enough to be immediately heard, for the cockerel an- swered with a shrill “Cock-a-doo-doo,” and at once came running in great joy out of the shades of the forest. Sugar- , "HAP-ate"? fig,“ ,' ,‘1 . y, ‘ _, , ‘ “hf-rm. ,M c any»... “nan-Liana... elf-Lama»........_.., “1:; .,... ' ' ‘ ‘* .v- , m ~"r—.L. >h.‘4\‘ , - , 48 NUTCRACKER AND SUGARDOLLY. dolly asked him about Nutcracker, but he could not tell any thing about him, except that he had climbed upon a nut tree soon after their arrival in the forest. Since then he had not seen him, and had hoped from day to day to see him, but hitherto in vain. Then Sugar dolly took a sorrowful leave of the cockerel and the hen, who seemed to be well contented with the beautiful open wood, and went alone to try, and find N utcracker._ She looked on all the trees, she peeped into the bushes, she called him by name, but found no trace of him. Even at night she did not rest, but with a glowworm in each hand as a torch, she looked in the thickets and the tall , Ja....a.‘._.ré(.1.‘ar ;.’.v.'_.n._:' , Ml . , r - ,2 , . A, «a u” a:-nh.yf~tus-aiu.. m M . “M.“fiziyamnflv; 9:13.11)“ 1, 1. , ,. “3:1 "- 1in {\uuuuiul ‘ [I H H H A 4 ”my!“ H111"! l 1‘ I, 4‘ .. 1g /-v.( SUGA RDO L LY IN THE FORE ST. NUTCRAC‘KER AND SUGARDOLLY. 51 grass, but he was not to be found. When it was dry she saw the bees flying from, one wild flower to another, sucking the honey, and loading themselves with waX. Then she sat down under the flowers, for she was tired, and took a breakfast of honey. And the bees flew about her and hummed to her “Buzz, buzz, buzz, buzz, Over grasses and flowers, Nutcracker has gone Through the wood’s green bowers.” Sugardolly was glad to hear this, and thought that she would get the track of the wanderer. And she spoke to the flying birds, and said, -:§$finm.'v#¢~m>wm‘w , .. > ' > , ,»~ .,~,.,,. HM. , “q...“ ' " " 'v ,,.u _ 7,! Lynn.” r » 52 NUTCRAGKER AND SUGARDOLLY. “Little birdies, playing, O’er the forest swaying, O’er the mountains green ; Nutcracker have yen seen?” , Then the birds ‘set up such a singing and twittering, and one cried louder than another, and for a long time Sugardolly did not’understand at all whatit was that they meant to say. One had seen him on this tree, and the other on that. A lark that was trilling high over the forest said, that she had seen him One morning in the meadow, but did not know any thing more of him. At last a merry finch came alOng, and said in haste, “Pick, pick, pick, pick, Be quick! be quick! THE LARK. 3 . I a . m; m» An-vu. . NUTCRACKER AND SUGARDOLLY. 55 Yonder Nutcracker springs, And rustles and rushes, \ Through the green bushes, Be quick! be quick! Pick, pick, pick, pick!” Just then Sugardolly actually heard a rustling and crackling in the bushes, and ran up to them, and in a tone of .joy called “Nutcracker !” However it was not him, but a black squirrel, cracking nuts and he threw the shells at her. She could not find Nutcracker in the forest, so she went out into the meadow, and spoke to the flowers: “Little flowers with eyes so blue, I Say, has Nutcracker been with you ?” _, ..... suiqmejjwmww. ,, . ‘ - , i ' .J $2.11....“ . am...“ 7:13." w..»—m.r-“;€L._,‘,_.V,x,~. an M. tannin”. .— _._v.~__-_.__.__..._._-. ;i_\__v« p.451“: *‘vwv, . ”n.4, ,ucibw.1.-,;v~ aw, q, z: 1 L“ 56 NUTCRAOKER AND SUGARDOLLY... Then the wind passed over the mea- dow and shOok the flowers, and they softly spoke .._ ,_ “ N utcraokez' was with us and sought for rest, W1th leaves and blossoms we covered his breast ‘ At day dawn he awoke and away he went, _ - - But we know not whither his steps were bent.” ' Sugardolly was unhappy when she heard this answer, for she did not know where she should go to look for N ut- cracker.~ But she resolved to go out into the meadow in the hope that she might Jayuaunqskw 9w:- ‘4: ‘ amp” h._Mu$ » (r f ¢ . I ! gag (In M! , am 7/ W EN 6/ THE BLACK SQUIRREL. , . ' . ‘ ., , ‘ cqugpmfioamwm . . ,__ _ NUTCRACKER AND SUGARDOLLY. 59 g find out Something about him. As she went farther and farther, she came to the beautiful castle Rosebush, the abode of the queen Centifolia. It was all made of green leaves, and neatly, airily, and pleasantly built, and the pillars and cor- ners had sharp thorns set close together, as a protection against enemies. Sugar- dolly saw a great many people go to the ‘ castle, and asked a shining little gold bug what was going on there. She was told that it was the feast of roses that day and that the queen had a concert in the castle. Sugardolly sat down opposite the castle, and saw Queen Centifolia come out on the balcony and take her seat on a throne of green leaves. She had a beautiful rose-colored silk dress, a 60 NUTORACKER AND SUGARDOLLY. crown-of roses on her head, and a white veil as fine as a spider’s web floated around it; iHer two children, Princess Rosa and PrinCe Rosered sat beside her on little green chairs in red and green puffed garments, and a Whole train cf court ladies, all in ' rose-colored dresses, stood and .‘sat around them/The singers and songstresses arrived one after the other, Mr. Finch and Madam Linnet, Mr. .Green‘ Finch and Madam Thrush. Mr. Yellowthrush and Madam Lark, and at last came the famous songstress Ma- dam'Nightingale, and then there was muSic in abundance, A shepherd who was pasturing his flock on the meadow drove his sheep nearer to the castle, that he might hear something of the concert. v lav» JA-vaam‘~r¢6¢v "-.' QUEEN CENTIFOLIA. ....4,.,'.~.._ .' *' I 4‘ 0' ....__._’ ”ma-“w "‘ Wt...» ‘Wfi'Wvfi‘Ififiw‘lw ' NUTCRACKER AND SUGARDOLLY. 63 And when the sheep came too near the castle, the sharp thorns caught something from their fleeces, and then the little wood birds made haste to carry off the bits of wool to their nests, in order to make a softer bed for their little ones. And when the singers had finished, the insects gathered about the castle for a dance, and a great beetle played the bass violin for them. So the singers and the insects kept up the festivities till it was dark, and the queen had the castle splendidly lighted up by a thousand shining glowworms. Then all the singers and songstresses went home; and only Madam Nightingale remained to sing the queen and her children to sleep. (ll . NUTCRACKER AND SUGARDOLIIY. Then Sngardolly thought it was too late to ' go ‘anyfarther, and went up to the balcony Where the queen sat, and asked if she could be permitted to spend that night in the castle. Centifolia must have been Very tired, for she only nodded sleepily, and Sugardolly. went into the green castle hall and-lay down, and was soon fast]. asleep ;_with fatigue! after her long wanderings. ' ' a , The next morning the sun VaW'Oke her, and she left Castle Rosebud to continue her journey, She looked up to the bal- cony , of - the queen, but she was still sitting there sleeping, and nodding on her green throne, and Princess Rosa and Prince Rosered had laid their little heads on her lap and all three had slept there «11- «4.: “amm‘_*:lt‘ J. ’__. THE NIGHTINGALE. mmnum",:g I zfiiu'wj'wumwuvfi v , fi‘ SUGARDOLLY AND NUTCRAOKER. 67 through the beautiful summer night. And Madam Spinaway, an old ugly ne- gress, in the service of the queen had thrown a white veil over all three, and it was splendidly adorned with pearls and jewels in which the rising sun flashed and sparkled. Sugardolly went to a brook that flowed merrily over the colo » .d stones and stooped down to take up some water to wash the sleep out of her eyes. Then ' she heard the brook softly murmuring: “From the mountain I come Where the dwarfs have a home, In the cave whence I spring Nutcracker is king, To him quickly flee And Queen thou shalt be.” ' cMm‘W-WI bum“ ‘ - ;. M» “Ma" t._r_',.....,.wa;..g.; ' 68 SUGARnOLLY. AND NUTCRACKER. 3 ‘At this Sugardolly knew what She had to do, and that she had only to follow the brook to find the cavern and N ut- cracker. She started immediately on the journey, but the brook made many wind- ings, and several days passed away be- fore she reached the end of her wander- ings, , At last one evening she came to a high ~mount ' , from which the brook leaped out merarfiy. , I '. “ N ow,” thought Sugardolly, “ the cavern where the dwarfs live, and where Nutcracker is king must. be yonder ;” but though she looked and looked, the mountain was steep, and no path led up its side. She called Nutcracker again and again, but her voice was drowned by the plashing of the brook, and in sad- "m. NUTCRAOKER AND SUGARDOLLY. 69 she sat down at the foot of the mountain and from extreme weariness soon fell in a, sound sleep. n A . 33'" f/ / (x: _' V V ‘yk\ \g :H ;. '{ I \\’/ In. 5/ ¢‘?’- j ' 'I r I f 1‘ "‘1" 2' W W W? ‘ - \ h; “VI/[m '/ ahVV’“ ' \\\\§\\V “ I. f; f f §§§V l / ‘55‘9‘3- ‘3, \ “A“; “- ,Jmawwfl’ CHAPTER IV. HOW SUGARDOLLY BECOMES QUEEN or- THE DWARFS. ‘ SUGARDOLLY must have slept soundly, for when she a .oke the next morning she saw to her éeat astonishment that she was not lying on the grass at the foot of the mountain, but on a rich and handsome carpet in the cave of the dwarfs where the little creatures had carried her. When she had called Nutcracker the evening before, a little dwarf, who was sitting under a water plant beside , the little brook fishing for pearls, had (70) arr-w. ‘wymv‘lu‘ » > ‘ SUGARDOLLY IN THE DWARFS’ CAVE. NUTCRACKER AND SUGARDOLLY. 7 3 heard her. As soon as she had gone to sleep, he Went nearer to her and was de- lighted to find a little being no bigger than himself. He'called the rest of the dwarfs to see her, and after they had ad- ' mired her appearance, they took her up carefully and carried hersoftly up the mountain into the cavern. And now. they all danced around Sugardolly and sung: , Sugardolly, slight and fair, . Thee, their queen the dwarfs declare; . A_ golden sceptre shalt thou bear, A golden crown shall deck thy hair; The dwarfs will ever love thee, ‘ ' Nor e’er to sorrow move thee. Thou, Dolly, to the dwarfs be kind, And keep a fresh and happy mind. ' . . -- .0." . ., I V y,....;"~,..... . .W%_% . .ml 5 1,” ~...;..' "4M“;- s..,.1;.1-...»..». 1.214.“, 74: NUTCRACKER AND SUGARDOLLY. We will cause thee no displeasure, Thou art our joy and treasure; Sugardolly, slight and fair, _ Thee, their queen the dwarfs declare. Then one of the dwarfs came and brought her a golden sceptre and a golden crown on a beautiful cushion, and after she was adorned with them, the dwarfs led her to a golden throne, and all kneeled before her and promised to obey her in every thing. As soon as the ceremony was over, Sugardolly asked after king Nutcracker, but the dwarfs made such angry faces as she did so and such wild gestures, that Sugardolly was almost afraid of them. ~ They then told her how they had NUTCRACKER AND SUGARDOLLY. 75 found Nutcracker asleep and had brought him into their cave; how they had hoped that he would be a good king to them, ‘ and how they had crowned him and shown him a great deal of love. But he went and eat up all the nuts that they had collected with ,much labor for the winter, and when they gave him any thing except nuts to eat he got very angry and would bite at them with his great mouth, and try to cut them with his sword. Finally one day he broke out ’ one of his teeth biting at a golden nut, which their goldsmith had expanded his . skill in making, and which Nutcracker ' thought was eatable. This put him in a great rage, so that he took a whole has- ket full of golden nuts and threw them ‘ “*5‘E'W7fi‘fim‘ , , ,. 76 NUTCRACKER AND VSUGARDOLLY. into the brook. This was more than they could bear, for gold, is their favorite metal, and it costs-them great pains to get it out of the earth, and nobody is allowed to take it away from them withOut being punished. Accordingly they got out of all patience at this less and fell upon Nutcracker with great knotted handker- chiefs, and drove him out of the cavern, and threatened him with worse treatment if he should ever show himself there again. , _ From this narrative Sugardolly per- ceived that Nutcracker was still as im- moderate in eating nuts and just as surly and passionate as he had been at the . fruit pedlar’s. But as he had always been: good and kind to her, she had be- NUTCRAOKER AND SUGARDOLLY. 77 come greatly attached to him, and was now quite sorry because she could not find him again Indeed she entirely forgot her Crown and throne and that she was a queen, and began to weep aloud, which is not a very proper thing for a queen. to do. The dwarfs were much astonished and > alarmed at her unhappiness, and humbly begged her pardon if they had hurt her feelings. They said they would try to serve her in every way if She wouldonly stay with them. _ Finally Sugardolly dried her tears and was contented. She saw that it would hardly be possible for her to find N ut- cracker, and being weary with her long journeying and searching she thought it ’:iw§aa:.w.¢i'mr>w' ' .1. ,, M Aw‘i- ‘.-.._L_....,~-._4._ 7 8 NUTCRACKER AND SUGARDOLLY. would be better to stay with the good natured dwarfs than to go straying about in uncertainty any longer. So she pro— mised the dwarfs to stay with them and be their queen, and they were glad to hear it, and went each one about his business. Most of them crept into fis— sures of the earth to get out gold, silver, and precious stones, but others had work to' do in various parts of the cavern. There was a baker who knew how to make, from the honey that he took from the bees of the forest, nice things such as Sugardolly liked to eat; and a weaver wove silk garments and worked gold and silver into them. The goldsmith prepared splendid vessels and furniture, such as the cavern was adorned with," and made NUTCRACKER AND SUG-ARDOLLY. 79 them more beautiful with glittering stones. So the dwarfs worked industri- ously and never ceased to find gold, for what they did not dig out themselves the brook that sprang from the bottom of the cave brought up to them; only they had to take some pains in getting it out of the water ' But they could not hinder the brook from carrying a good many bits of gold down the rocks far away to the dwellings of men. And there the men greedily collected the bits of gold out of the sands of the brook, and whenever they found a great piece, such as one of the golden nuts that Nutcracker threw into the brook, they were astonished and thought a great deal as tothe way in which the r . ' , ‘ V, ‘ ‘ ‘Jghwg-wowmmvmr -' - g . 80 NUTCRAOKER AND SUGARDOLLY. gold got into the brook.” One guessed it Was this, another that, but'vthey never hit the truth for they knew nothing of the dwarfs and of Nutcracker. Some of the little people alwaysremained with the queen to keep 'her' company, and to wait upon her, and they entertained her With all sorts of. tales and histories. And at evening the dwarfs all gathered quietly about the feet of the queen, who sang a great many songs to them. And Sugar- dolly found the life among the dWarfs very nice and pleasant, and the dwarfs were delighted with their beautiful queen who could sing Such pretty songs. I. a“ 1/ .9?” 9?? M \ ' J [2" . an?) " iffy/7%?" // 5M / .. A f. y’é'fi‘l ;'l‘£';rilz€" = . f’.’ "f..."2$>le 1. , ,r is; V \ \\ ’S THE GREY SQUIRREL. a ,M m , --. ”4”,,‘1M11M z.‘ n ' M“-’(» w 1.” ,0“?qu -M.WA v .. . ’ CHAPTER V. -... A”. lwum..‘....j;..-_ How NUTCRACKER, THE BANISHED KING or THE DWARFS, WANDERED ABOUT THE [FOREST AND FELL INTO GREAT STRAIGHTS, BUT AT LAST WAS DELIVERED OUT or THEM. 'WHILE Sugardolly was thus peacefully ruling over the dwarfs, Nutcracker leaped from one tree to another, and cracked and eat all the nuts he could find. As long as the summer lasted and plenty of nuts hung upon the trees, he had a fine time of it, and was happy that he was no longer king, for he could go Where he pleased, and crack as many nuts as he (83) 84 NUTCRACKER AND SUGARDOLLY. desired. But when the nuts grew scarcer and scarcer he often had to battle with the squirrels, for they wanted to keep all the nuts for themselves. One day Nutcracker had found the nest of a squir— rel, where the grey squirrel had laid up his winter stock'of nuts. He was eating away at them with high satisfaction when the owner came home and fell upon him tooth and; nail. He defended him- self with all his might,' and as he had sharp teeth as well as the squirrel they hit each other very sm53%ly, till at last Nutcracker succeeded in choking the squirrel to death. Then he took off the squirrel’s skin,“ and put it on- himself, as a little mantle, for it began to be cold, and he was sometimes near freezing. I , 7 ._ ~ 1‘ ,1. 1 . ' u... -mwrw.‘ gamma ~ $9 7 $7 7' ’1 ///////,/¢ fl/I ‘ Hum?»- ‘ r -w / ”TIN I It? '//> IT x .f/ 3/? 21‘ I?. . ?Wfl 3‘\////1WI~('T‘4V /’// NUTCRACKER KILLS THE SQUIRREL. 4—; ”flaw-«RV I, i i ! NUTCRAOKER AND SUGARDOLLY. 87 After this Nutcracker met with hard times. The squirrels had carried all the nuts to their nests, and he did not dare to show himself, because a gossiping blue jay had seen him choke the squirrel, and , had told the story all over the forest Whenever the squirrels saw him they fell upon him, and bit him and scratched him out of revenge, and because it vexed them to see him with the squirrel’s skin on. In this extremity he often thought of the time when he was king of the dwarfs, and how happy he might be now if he had been more moderate and kind to his subjects. He thought too quite often of Sugardolly and would gladly have been with her in the house of the fruit dealer. ‘ ‘J‘ifihj‘ag‘wémaw 1 fl! 88 NUTCR'AOKER AND SUGARDOLLY. But it was a long, way-there,- and ,hedid not know the road, and his true friend the cockerel, wh’o'could have-carried him back, he had lost in the forest, as «soon as they had arrived. 2 SO there was no ' help for. it, he ., must stay where he was. , . One day ‘ Nutcracker was sitting "in" lowi spirits: under artree,.from which the cold autumn wind had shaken the last leaves. He had ?Wrapped the squirrel’s skin close around him, and had crawled under the fallen leaves .: so as to be less exposed to the c01d. Suddenly he heard a :ruStling among the bare bushes and dry leaves, and a big, hound leaped at him, barking loudly. Nutcracker was not idle. He leaped up, drew his sword and laid about him with great fury. The ~:m;%‘j¢¢~w-ywzw-v - ~V ‘ amer «-41. “ya—”4., THE BLUE JAY. NUTCRACKER AND SUGARDOLLY. 91 dog which had been deceived by the skin and thought N utcracker was a squirrel, was confounded and only stood before him and barked. This attracted the huntsman to whom i the dog belonged, and he was astonished at the little creature and did not know what to think about him. But he called his dog away and made him be quiet, and then went up to the little fellow who was still threatening the dog with his sword, and at last asked him who he was. “ A king!” said Nutcracker, with lower- ing aspect. “A king!” rejoined the huntsman, in astonishment, “you, don’t say so I—Where is your kingdom ‘2” At this Nutcracker put on a wrathful face, but said nothing, and though the hunts- 92 NUTCRACKER AND SUGARDOLLY. man asked him many other questions ' not a word would he say in reply. The man was sorry:forthelittlefellow, who, it was plain to see; Was very cold, and he thought-perhaps. that he might serveas a playmate for , the children of his master,Whosecastle was not a great Way from the forest. And so at last he ‘ asked him if he wouldgo with him, for he would-freeze there in the wood.- The little fellow gave a surly nod by way of assent, and started to follow the hunts- man; but he could not geton fast enough and sunk almOst to his ears in the-fallen leaves. Then the hunt‘sman steeped down and took the little fellow on his arm and went with rapidity through the forest. But they had not gone far before NUTCRACKER AND SUGARDOLLY; 93 aloud “Coek¢a-‘dood1e—doo” saluted them from the branch of a tree. At this N ut- - cracker 'Who had been“ sitting still looked and recognised his 'friend the ‘coekerel and made the queerest‘ faces. i Then‘the huntsman thinking that" perhaps they belonged together; at last’tentie'ed the Cookerel, which ' had flown after them from! tree to tree, so that became down to the groundand sat on the huntsma‘n’s . arm beside N uteraekerir‘ The 'coekerel began to erovaan-d 'ch'at'ter; and the huntsmajn Whounderstood something of the language of animals, because he was alWays hunting for them in the woods, heard from him theistory of «the White hen that the fox hadearriedoff,‘ and‘how hungry he was, because'vfor“ a long time ' “My. wwkmw-v» 94: NUTORACKER AND SUGARDOLLY. he had found nothing to eat. But N ut- cracker spoke in all sorts of snarling tones, and the huntsman could not un- derstand him, and by and by the strange pair arrived in the yard of the castle. The cockerel jumped down, clapped his wings, set up a merry “\Cock—a-doodle- doc,” and went in among the hens, for they were just having a dinner of barley- corns. The hens were frightened at first and ran away, but they soon saw that it was only a noble looking cockerel and came cackling back again and made ac- quaintance with him. While the cockerel was enjoying him- self with the barleycorns among the hens, the huntsman carried Nutcracker to the ‘ lord of the castle, who called his two ‘:xahmi:“¢o-w; Mm"! V“ . . .v _ THE HUNTSMAN. . 4 _ :2. g :lfl? , A ..... Him. A SUGARDOLLY AND NUTCRACKER. V 97 children to him, a boy and a girl, to see the little dwarf. The children were de- lighted with the little fellow, and the lord of the castle kept him as their play- mate. They carried him into a warm room, where he threw off his squirrel’s skin, and began to amuse them with all sorts of tricks and capers. - TL“ r_w¢mw«1\5£t‘a~t* ‘ , . , *‘t‘fi_ r- . J, “My mi. “Wyatt. CHAPTER VI. How SUGAR’DOLLY LOSES HER KINGDOM AND ' WHAT SHE GAINS INSTEAD. ONE evening'as'Sugardolly sat in the cavern and the dwarfs were coming forth out of all the fissures and holes and cor- ners, to take their places around the queen, and give an account of their day’s work, ‘she counted her subjects, and one little dwarf was missing. At last the little fellow came along, panting with a great bundle of moss upon his back, and when the queen asked him where he had been so long, he said there was a 98 >Lo,;.;.a,.wu¢..n‘w,w.-*3?! mg; , ,, (A , , ”awn .w ;,.;_ , , V- m ; _ V ,, . A .,, - ' "“ *1... WM; x:»._:ng.’w» ‘ » . - » NUTCRACKER AND SUGARDOLLY. 99 great castle behind the mountain with a beautiful garden, belonging to a rich lord who had two children, a boy and a girl. He had been gathering moss in the gardenhedge, and had tied up his bundle, when ' suddenly the little girl came up to the place with a big cat on her arm. The cat leaped from the child’s arm and ran after him; perhaps she thought he was a rat because he was so small and grey and nimble. Then in his terror he ran towards a mole’s hole, and as the little girl drove away the cat he was lucky enough to reach it and creep in. He staid there a long time, and did not dare to go out till the little girl called him, and told him to come out without being afraid, for the Cat was gone, and :Wfiww-gmw—ev- ' . ,1 , h ,, ._.._m ...._. - ~ 1 , x a_r:._...‘..m.~.m;v . 100 NUTCRACKER AND SUGARDOLLY. she would help him to carry his bundle. And when he came out of the hole, she had actually picked up the bundle and she carried it a good piece of the way. The queen and all the dwarfs were pleased with the little girl, and Sugar- dolly said she would herself soon pay the child a visit, to thank her for having saved the life of one of her subjects. At i this the dwarfs were alarmed, and they « represented to her the dangers to which she would be exposed on such an expe- dition, and advised her to remain at home,» and send some of her subjects with presents to the child. . But Sugardolly, having» now lived for some time in the dwarfs’ cavern, had a desire to see some other places and per- ..,._.; _,, ;‘;_¢_, .7 n . . 1 - 1-... ”mm-w. upward—Lu -- NUTCRACKER AND SUGARDOLLY. 101 sistedain her scheme. Accordingly they determined to attempt the journey the next night, which was the night before the child’s birthday. They were to go by night, because the dwarfs love the moonlight more than the sunlight, and do not like to be‘seen by men. For that ' reason they always prosecute their labors in secret places or in the night when . men are asleep. ' When the evening came the whole tribe of the dwarfs set out on the Journey, / with the queen in the midst of them, for they all loved her, and sought to protect her against all danger. All carried gifts for the little girl, pretty playthings, de- licate sweetmeats, and rare wood flowers. They climbed noiselessly down the moun- 102 SUGARDOLLY AND .NUTCRACKER. 'tain, and going, now by subterraneous pathways, and now through low thickets, they at laSt arrived safely in the castle yard. All was dark and stillin the castle, for it was near midnight, and all , was closed; but as they went around the walls searching, they found “an air hole of the cellar open. They made, their way through it, and across the cellar, and up the cellar way, and across the great hall, and up the castle stairs, and through the long passages, wide halls and rooms, to the bed chamber of the child. She lay peacefully ‘in her bed, and was dreaming. perhaps "of the hand- sOme presents that she expected on her birthday. Sugardolly climbed upon a little footstool, and from that upon a .. 2-31.. i V. A... ,7 . . , a“. >1 ~ ~. «,3; - CV X . . -',‘- th “"‘—""*>‘":- %‘-M— mmv " .. {mm 717/ , F16”; .5542?) ,4; I 1:5,“. fugmgtnw - " \n....._:€\scf< a . . NUTCRACKER AND SUGARDOLLY. 105 chair that stood at the bedside of the child, and leaned over the“ bed to look at the little girl, while the dwarfs formed a ring around the bed and danced and sang softly their songs. ’ _ The dwarfs were thus engaged when 7 suddenly the cock crowed in the yard of the castle. This frightened them, and they'wanted to start for home, and en- treated the queen not to stayany longer, because the day was breaking. i ; But the crowing of the cock had also roused up a little figure in one corner of the ’ room. This was, nobody else than Nutcracker, who knew the dwarfs by the light of the lamp, and mindful of the ignominious way in which they had expelled him, he drew his sword and went fiercely at them. . l. - .. M». . . shag, «.0 it”! . n m, _.,,,,....J" m..L.4y.-.l~u..d£,£t 106 NUTORACKER AND SUGARDOLLY. The queen was terrified and screamed, the dwarfs collected about her so as to protect her and to take'her with them, but just then the cock crOwe‘d a second time, and the dwarfs struck’more and more violently with their knotted hand- kerchiefs, andNutcracker laid about him with increased fury; ' Sugardolly was motionless with fear, as she saw the battle, and beside she could not stir from the, _. place for the child in her sleep had seized hold of her little dress and held it ., fast. Then the cock crowed for the third time, and the dwarfs had to fly, for theydare not stay in the dwellings; of man after the third crow of the cock. ‘They slipped out at a crack of the door, but had to leave their beloved queen behind, for she ; "“h— "“ -, ’ x. ub—flbfi ‘4 u) ., ‘ " "23‘ ‘ .. —-.-. n.’ \V: \5 <\\E§ .. . f : .LL«R .2:.....n.~\\ .33qu {4| .. . |\ \$\M\\\\\\x. :. III/’7: NUTCRACKE’h’s FIGHT WITH THE DWARFS. “w 1—: 4“»... ,3... .-L «mu, . - . emu. . .L". .mwdugw ' .. , ._‘_“,,.;V‘ 22. ‘ WWW law-4* 7‘ ow W“. L»: a, ., Eff?» ‘ itlanipnifxfi ha i.‘ . . A NUTCRAGKER AND SUGARDOLLY. 109 was held fast by the sleeping child, and Nutcracker had taken his stand before \ her and flourished his sword like a mad- man, so that none of the dwarfs dared to come near him. At last all became quiet again, and the Child let go of Dolly’s dress and turned to sleep on the other side. Dolly got down from the chair, and sat with Nutcracker 1n a corner, and each told the other every thing that had ' happened since their flight from the ' house of their foster parents. The next morning as the little girl awoke she was exceedingly surprised to see such a little creature sitting beside Nutcracker. She called her little brother and both “asked Sugardolly where she had come from. Sugardolly told them ' 1 . . 11.", . .. ' , ‘4"??? warm“ 3 “4., “why“ 4..,,.L.,..,,.»,.df. 110 .NUTCRACKER AND SUGARDOLLY. the whole story, and the children could not enough wonder at what they heard. But Sugardolly was neat and pretty and what she had told them was so wonder- ful, and Nutcracker was so merry on ac- count of her arrival that the children i were perfectly happy with their new playmate and soon could not do without Nutcracker and Sugardclly. -=»§-..A»AJ.$_~;» , 3.2 iv: "r... m‘—* \{:~AuUr-‘ ‘ 4 ..... CHAPTER VII. HOW NUTCRACKER AND SUGARDOLLY LIVE AT .THE CASTLE AND WHAT FINALLY BECOMES OF THEM. . ’ THUS after their long separation N ut- Cracker and Sugardolly were together again and lived happily with the child- ren'in the castle. Sugardolly was espe- cially' beloved by them On account of the pretty songs that she used to sing, which she had learned in the forest and the meadow, from the birds and bees and gold hugs, and on account of the many beautiful things that she could tell of her 111 112 NUTCRACKER AND SUGARDOLLY. long wanderings, of Castle Rosebush and Queen Centifolia, and of the cave of the dwarfs and all that was done there. How much the children desired to see all those things, and how earnestly they be- sought Sugardolly to take them to the dwarfs’ cavern! But she did not know how to find the road. It was night when she came to the castle and who could tell what winding ways the dwarfs had carried her so that they need not be dis- covered. Nutcracker too was liked pretty well by the children, for be amused them with all kinds of queer capers that he cut, and as he was a nimble climber, he was very useful to them, and got for them many things which they could not reach themselves. He always brought NUTCRACKER AND SUGARDOLLY. 113 down the hoOps that hung on the trees when. they were at play, or: the balls that were accidentally thrown upon high places, and they thought beforehand with pleasure how in summer Nutcracker would get cherries and pears from the trees. And as they saw that he liked to eat nuts, they often gave them to him, and told him fine things about Christmas and how he should then have plenty of big ones. They amused themselves al-' - ready at the thought of how he would have to stretch his big mouth for the big nuts. As yet he had only had hazel nuts and they were not much, but at Christmas what big walnuts! and how they would {crack I. The cockerel too became a favorite 8 «Au-uwmww" ' 1. w. my; 4_ c. .¢_.V.....l.~t a.” " 114: NUTCRACKER AND SUGARDOLLY; with the children, for whenever they went into the courtyard with Nutcracker, and Sugardolly he crowed lustily to them and when they were playing there, he stood near them and shouted his glad “ Cock- a—doodle-doo ;” but there was nobody from whose hand the cockerel liked to eat as well as from N utcracker’s. Thus the children ‘led a right happy life with Nutcracker, Sugardolly, and the cockerel; and what with singing and playing and telling stories the time passed rapidly away, and they did not once think it could ever be otherwise. Sometimes their godmother, the Fairy Honeymouth, came to visit them, and always brought with her very pretty playthings and fine sweetmeats. The 7 ,.-:_4.,..,.‘;.‘...4¢.....,.. ,,~ ~ , NUTCRACKER AND SUGARDOLLY. 115 little fairy always came through a small cupboard in the wall of the room where the children kept their playthings. In the cupboard there was a little hOIe, which the children supposed to be a mouse hole, but as they often put bits of cake there to catch the mouse, and they were never even nibbled they came to the conclusion that this must be the way by which the Fairy Honeymouth, their godmother, came to see them. From that time they watched carefully in order to see her come. But they never could succeed; and their godmother was always in the room, and had laid all kinds of pretty things in the little cupboard be- fore the children had taken any notice of it. ' zW‘TWosmguys-e». , V :1 A A ‘ l‘ q 1“ . v.64.» ‘ ' ' ' v .7..- 19““ “"4“. , 116 NUTCRAOKER AND SUGARDOLLY. They would. have liked very much to go home with their godmother, but she always disappeared as softly and imper- ceptibly as she had come. They beat and . hammered on the littlehole in the cup- board and broke off some of the plaster: ing and made the hole bigger, but it was of no use; they could see nothing but a dark hole. Finally they besought Nutcracker and Sugardolly just to creep into the hole and see where it led to. The'two were ready and willing and set out upon the way. For a long time they had to creep along in a dark passage, till at last it became higher and wider and they groped along by the walls. By and by it became clearer and clearer, and finally they came .,.A._.).s(m-w :;.:.':.,. a , ‘ y , NUTCRACKER AND SUGARDOLLY. 117 into the green, blooming, and splendid - garden of the Fairy Honeymouth, from which the fruit pedlar and his wife had stolen the nut and egg. They went around and saw, every thing, and after a While they came to the golden gate, where stood the nut tree and the sugar tree. Sugardolly looked at the sweet things with a great desire to have some and Nutcracker was no less eager for the great, fine nuts, and he prepared to climb the tree. But the birds of the garden came as they had done before, and flut— tered their wings, and cried, “Don’t do it! Don’t do it!?’ So the little ones ran affrighted back to the entrance of the dark passage. In running Sugardolly fell upon her, nose aha-"WW“W “ ‘ :1. , ,l- '4. nwmm M.“ ., 118 , NUTORACKER AND SUGARDOLLY. and certainly would have cried with the pain, if sweet, white sugar had not come into her mouth instead of sand. Then they both felt their way along the walls and arrived safely in the little cupboard. The children were sitting before it full of expectation and curiosity, and the little travellers had to tell every thing they had seen in the fairy’s garden. The children heard it with astonishment, and were of opinion that all could hardly be true, but Sugardolly was still smacking her lips with the sweet taste of (the sugar, and Nutcracker were so serious a look at every thing that Sugardolly told, that at last they doubted no longer. SO they entreate‘d their two playmates to go once more to the fairy’s garden, and NUTCRACKER AND SUGARDOLLY. 119 to find their godmother, Honeymouth, and to ask her to cOme and take them to the garden. Nutcracker and Sugardolly did not A need much urging, for the nuts and sweet things attracted them very greatly, and they crept immediately into the hole again and arrived the second time in the fairy’s garden. But the fairy was no- where to be seen, and they went again to the golden gate and to the nut and sugar trees. Sugardolly was about to break a little piece from the trunk of the sugar tree, but the birds screamed again, “Don’t do it! Don’t do it!” Then Sugardolly asked a blue jay where the fairy was, and the jay said that the fairy had gone on a journey and ' new-“Wu” . ,5 , 120 NUTCRACKER AND SUGAR-DOLLY. had left the birds to watch the garden, and see that nobody took any thing. And the birds were enchanted men who had secretly stolen some of the fruits and nice things of the garden, and the fairy had'changed them as a punishment and now they had to keep watch over the - garden. The jay warned the little ones not to take any thing whatever, for the fairy would find it out, and not suffer them to escape without punishment. Then they both had to turn about with- out having accomplished. any thing, and once more to tell the children, who were waiting at the cupboard, what they had seen and heard, and how their godmother was gone on a journey. Nutcracker had stuck in his hat a gay feather that had 7.4...4..........~r ,-,-_‘.. a . , < 1- ~: I ‘ .;'_ w‘.~:- samifiws‘nv ' ‘ web-m, Manor-wire“ v NUTCRACKER AND SUGARDOLLY. 121 fallen from one of the birds in the gar— den. Sugardolly took off her silken shoes to take out the sand that had got into them as she was walking,vand strange to tell! it Was fine, White sugar. This in- creased the desire of the children to see the garden, and they waited. With impa— tience from day to day for a visit from the fairy, but she did not come. ’ Meanwhile N 11th acker and Sugardolly could not cease thinking. of the nut and ' sugar flees in the fairy garden, and their desire became so great that they resolved to go secretly bynight to the garden, , When the birds Were asleep, and, get some of the nuts and sugar , things.- In fact they set out one night in perfect silenCe, and when they got-there they 122 NUTCRACKER AND SUGARDOLLY. found the garden most splendid to be- hold by moonlight. Softly they stole to the garden gate, but though the day birds were asleep, there were bats and owls enough around the trees, watching the fruit. But Nutcracker and Sugar- dolly paid no attention to them; no mat- ter how much they screamed or what a fluttering they made. Nutcracker drew his sword in fury and anger and defended Sugardolly from the assaults of the birds till she had broken off as much as she wished from the brown back of the sugar tree. Then he himself climbed up into a nut tree, protecting himself with his teeth, and took as many of the big nuts as he could carry. ' Richly laden, the two little thieves ran _,4-4.,.x.._7 , "“74. _ _ V - 7- - . ,, "0-. -~—:—-,—.»- 5a-}3d.‘n- >- NUTCRACKER AND SUGARDOLLY. 123 to the dark passage, followed by the screaming birds, but alas! there stood the fairy in their path. “You have taken my fruit,” she said, “ though you were warned by the birds; and now you must suffer punishment. You, Nutcracker, shall henceforward for ever crack nuts, but only for others; you, shall never eat any more yourself. And you, Sugardolly, shall become what your name signifies, a sugar doll. And so you shall remain until two well behaved, good children shall release you from your enchantment.” So saying, she touched them both with her magic wand, so that they became dumb, stiff, and lifeless. The children at the castle were much surprised in the morning at not finding .,.. ,-;....« 124 NUTORACKER AND SUGARDOLLY. their playmates. Finally they suspected that they might have gone into the pas- sage to the fairy’s garden, and they waited longingly and impatiently for their return. ' They waited and hoped for many long days, but always in vain. Nor did their godmother come to see them so that they could beset her with inquiries as to the lost ones. But at last Christmas arrived, and the children desired nothing more earnestly than that Nutcracker and Sugardolly might be present at the festival. And When at evening the two sat together in the dark, silent and . trembling with secret expectation, » suddenly the little door of the cupboard sprung open and a bright light beamed upon the astonished ’ - t (r A . , I" 4......- ~.‘.e.4c..a. - NUTCRACKER AND SUGARDOLLY. 125 children. Theold play things were gone, and on a Christmas tree, hung thick with burning candles, there were the most beautiful new ones. Prominent among them they saw N ut— cracker’s spiteful and yet good natured face; and Sugardolly’s pretty figure was by his side. The children shouted for joy and hastened to them, and asked them where they had been so long, and how they had been. But, 0, sorrow! they got no answer, for both were stiff and dead. They tried to call Nutcracker back to life with the most beautiful, great nuts, but in Vain. - He cracked them indeed, but the power of swallowing was gone, and the kernels fell from his open mouth. Mina“, =~wvtw~d 126 NUTCRACKER AND SUGARDOLLY. The children looked sorrowfully at their darlings. “See,” said the fairy, “they are dead, because they took secretly what was forbidden them, yet it is in- your power to restore them to life. All that you have to do is to be perfectly well behaved (for a whole year in succession.” At this the children were glad again, and resolved earnest that they'would be good and obedient, but as yet they have never succeeded in keeping their resolu- tion for a year together. From that time, to the present day, Nutcracker and Sugardolly are regularly given to the children on Christmas eve among the splendors of the Christmas tree. And a great many Nutcrackers have been made out of wood, and Sugar- ' ...a_._(..;__-.l- gag, »_ ,. r ,3 ' 4‘ a‘ l ' ‘ , _ Wm...» «AM a , NUTCRACKER AND SUGARDOLLY. 127 dollies out of sugar, so that nobody can any longer tell which is the true Sugar- dolly, or the genuine Nutcracker. This is t1 uly unfortunate, for the children al- ways think that they have not the 1ight . ones and do not take pains to be good and obedient and thus Nutcracker and Sugar- dolly are still waiting for their release. But what has become of the cockerel? Well,‘when Sugardolly and Nutcracker staid away and did not come into the court yard any more, he flew upon the spire of the tower to look after them. There he stands to this day, and turns with the wind and looks in all directions, but his joyous “Cock-a—doodle-doo,” he has forgotten. Since then the people have called him the weather-cock, for .s .. w. 7., .431: w».— ,. ., M. < . ,«wu. as”, ”Maj, . 128 NUTCRACKER AND SUGARDOLLY. When it storms fiercely out of doors and snow and rain beat fiercely against the Windows, the weather-cock utters a shrill scream, and the children crowd shivering about the warm fire, and repeat the won- derful stories of the dwarfs and the fairy’s garden, which Nutcracker and Sugardolly told them. 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