Every one of them has a hammer of steel in his belt, and with that they will beat in thy skull." The giant grew angry and thought, If I meddle with the crafty folk, it might turn out badly for me. "They want to put an end to thee, and cleanse the forest of such a monster as thou art!" - "Oh!" said the giant, "I will trample you all to death like so many ants." - "Dost thou think thou canst do anything against us?" said the drummer "if thou stoopest to take hold of one, he will jump away and hide himself but when thou art lying down and sleeping, they will come forth from every thicket, and creep up to thee. "Wretch!" cried he, "what art thou drumming here for, and wakening me out of my best sleep?" - "I am drumming," he replied, "because I want to show the way to many thousands who are following me." - "What do they want in my forest?" demanded the giant. It was not long before a giant who had been lying sleeping among the grass, rose up, and was as tall as a fir-tree.
After he had walked for a while without seeing any giants, he thought to himself, I must waken up the sluggards, and he hung his drum before him, and beat such a reveille‚ that the birds flew out of the trees with loud cries. But I do not know the way which leads to the glass-mountain." - "The road goes through the great forest, in which the man-eaters live," she answered, "and more than that, I dare not tell you." And then he heard her wings quiver, as she flew away.īy daybreak the drummer arose, buckled on his drum, and went without fear straight into the forest. But you cannot come to the glass-mountain, and indeed if you were quite close to it you could not ascend it." - "When I want to do a thing I always can do it," said the drummer, "I am sorry for you, and have no fear of anything. "Stop a moment, perhaps I can help you." - "You can only help me by ascending the glass-mountain, and freeing me from the power of the witch. She snatched it in haste, and wanted to go away with it. "I will willingly give it back to you." He took it out of his pocket, and reached it to her in the dark. I entreat you to give me my dress back." - "Be easy, poor child," said the drummer. My sisters have gone away, but I have been forced to stay behind. I have to bathe in the lake every day with my two sisters, but I cannot fly back again without my dress.
"Give me back my dress," answered the voice, "that you took away from me last evening by the lake." - "You shall have it back again," said the drummer, "if you will tell me who you are." - "Ah," replied the voice, "I am the daughter of a mighty King but I have fallen into the power of a witch, and am shut up on the glass-mountain. He listened, and was aware of a soft voice which cried to him: "Drummer, drummer, wake up!" As it was a dark night he could see no one, but it appeared to him that a figure was hovering about his bed. Just as he was going to sleep, it seemed to him as if some one was saying his name. He returned home, thought no more of what he had found, and went to bed.
"What fine linen," said he, and put one piece in his pocket. A young drummer went out quite alone one evening into the country, and came to a lake on the shore of which he perceived three pieces of white linen lying.
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