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The Forest Hut
Many years before the cavaliers became the
managers of Ekeby, a shepherd boy and girl
used to play together in the forest, building houses
of flat stones, picking berries, and setting traps.
They had both been born in the forest. It was their
home and mansion, and they lived peacefully with
everything there, treating the forest beasts as you
treat servants and domestic animals.
They looked upon the foxes and lynxes as their
yard-dogs, and the weasels as their cats, and hares
and squirrels were their playmates. Bears and elk
were to them as cattle, and they caged owls and
black-cocks; the pine trees were their servants, and
the young birches were guests at their banquets.
They knew the cave where the vipers lay twined
together in their winter sleep, and bathing, they had
seen the snakes swim toward them through the clear
water, but they feared neither snakes nor gnome:
they belonged to the forest, and the forest was their
home. Nothing frightened them there.
Deep in the forest lay the hut where the boy lived.
A steep forest path led thither; the hills stood
round it and hid the sun, a bottomless marsh lay
near and sent forth a frosty mist all the year round.
It was hardly a tempting location for a home for
dale folk.
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