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Then Hans hastened home and brought a fowler's net with little

bells and hung it round about her, and she still went on

sleeping. Then he ran home, shut the house-door, and sat down in

his chair and worked. At length, when it was quite dark, Clever

Elsie awoke and when she got up there was a jingling all round

about her, and the bells rang at each step which she took. Then

she was alarmed, and became uncertain whether she really was

Clever Elsie or not, and said: 'Is it I, or is it not I?' But she

knew not what answer to make to this, and stood for a time in

doubt; at length she thought: 'I will go home and ask if it be I,

or if it be not I, they will be sure to know.' She ran to the

door of her own house, but it was shut; then she knocked at the

window and cried: 'Hans, is Elsie within?' 'Yes,' answered Hans,

'she is within.' Hereupon she was terrified, and said: 'Ah,

heavens!