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Reinick + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The King of Root Valley + and his curious daughter + +Author: R. Reinick + +Illustrator: T. Von Oer + R. Reinick + +Release Date: May 14, 2008 [EBook #25464] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE KING OF ROOT VALLEY *** + + + + +Produced by Jason Isbell, Suzan Flanagan, and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + +</pre> + + +<hr /> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 375px;"> +<a href="images/i001.jpg"><img src="images/i001tn.jpg" width="375" height="488" class="plain" alt="THE KING OF ROOT VALLEY A FAIRY TALE" title="THE KING OF ROOT VALLEY A FAIRY TALE" /></a> +</div> + +<hr /> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 375px;"> +<a href="images/i002.jpg"><img src="images/i002tn.jpg" width="375" height="490" class="plain" alt="Frontispiece" title="Frontispiece" /></a> +</div> + +<hr /> + + +<p class="fm4">THE</p> + +<p class="fm"><span class="wsp">KING OF ROOT VALLEY</span></p> + +<p class="fm2"><span class="wsp">AND HIS CURIOUS DAUGHTER.</span></p> + +<p class="fm3"><span class="wsp2">A Fairy Tale.</span></p> + +<p class="fm5">BY</p> + +<p class="fmh">R. REINICK.</p> + +<p class="fm6">With Eight Illustrations, by T. Von Oer and R. Reinick.</p> + +<p class="fm7">LONDON:<br /> +CHAPMAN AND HALL, 193, PICCADILLY.<br /> +1856.</p> + +<hr /> + + +<p class="fm8">PRINTED BY<br /> +JOHN EDWARD TAYLOR, LITTLE QUEEN STREET,<br /> +LINCOLN'S INN FIELDS.</p> + + +<hr /> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_v" id="Page_v">[v]</a></span></p> +<h2>Contents.</h2> + + + +<div class="toc"> +<h3>CHAPTER THE FIRST.</h3> +<p class="chapdesc2"><span class="chappg"><span class="smcap">page</span></span></p> + + +<p class="chapdesc">THE ROOT-VALLEY AND ITS INHABITANTS.—THE STORY-TELLING + GUESTS.—THE KING OF ROOT-VALLEY AND HIS CURIOUS + DAUGHTER.—THE AERIAL CHARIOT.—FESTIVITIES IN THE + TOWN.—RETURN THROUGH THE AIR FROM THE ROOF OF THE + TOWN-HOUSE.—WHIMS OF THE <span class="chapword">PRINCESS</span><span class="chappg"><a href="#Page_1">1</a></span></p> + +<h3>CHAPTER THE SECOND.</h3> + +<p class="chapdesc">THE SPRING FESTIVAL IN ROOT-VALLEY.—THE NUT-FIELD.—THE + MIGRATING BIRDS.—A STRANGE PEOPLE MAKE THEIR + APPEARANCE.—NUTCRACKER AND HARLEQUIN.—THE PRINCESS + FALLS INTO <span class="chapword">RAPTURES</span><span class="chappg"><a href="#Page_7">7</a></span></p> + +<h3>CHAPTER THE THIRD.</h3> + +<p class="chapdesc">THE WONDERFUL BROOK.—THE OVERTURNED CARRIER'S + WAGGON.—NUTCRACKER AND HARLEQUIN COME TO LIFE.—THE + THREE WISHES.—THE BOX OF NUREMBERG TOYS.—THE + WANDERING RATS.—HOW HARLEQUIN BRINGS TO LIFE A WHOLE + NATION AND ARMY.—BATTLE WITH THE + RATS.—HOMAGE.—PROCESSION TO THE <span class="chapword">ROOT-VALLEY</span><span class="chappg"><a href="#Page_11">11</a></span></p> +</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_vi" id="Page_vi">[vi]</a></span></p> + +<div class="toc"> +<h3>CHAPTER THE FOURTH.</h3> + + +<p class="chapdesc">NUTCRACKER IS BETROTHED TO THE PRINCESS OF ROOT-VALLEY, AND + TAKES POSSESSION OF THE NUTFIELD.—THE BIRDS + DEPART.—WHAT ILL COMES OF IT.—WEDDING AND <span class="chapword">PARTING</span><span class="chappg"><a href="#Page_19">19</a></span></p> + +<h3>CHAPTER THE FIFTH.</h3> + +<p class="chapdesc">THE PUPPET-KINGDOM IS SET IN ORDER.—HAUGHTINESS OF + NUTCRACKER, HIS WIFE, AND SUBJECTS.—ANTIPATHY OF THE + TWO PEOPLES.—THE ROOT-KING ABDICATES HIS + CROWN.—NUTCRACKER A TYRANT.—PREPARATIONS FOR WAR IN + ROOT-VALLEY.—THE WAR.—HARLEQUIN'S DEATH.—FLIGHT AND + DESTRUCTION OF THE PUPPET-KINGDOM.—NUTCRACKER'S + DEATH.—THE PRINCESS <span class="chapword">SAVED</span><span class="chappg"><a href="#Page_22">22</a></span></p> + +<h3>CHAPTER THE SIXTH.</h3> + +<p class="chapdesc">THE BIRDCATCHER AND HIS FAMILY.—HOW THE CHILDREN RETURN + HOME WITH RARE TREASURES.—NUTCRACKER'S DEAD BODY.—THE + LITTLE MAIDEN IN THE STORK'S NEST, AND WHO SHE + WAS.—AFFECTING RECONCILIATION ON THE + NUTFIELD.—THREATENING DANGER TO THE + ROOTMEN.—EMIGRATION OF THE <span class="chapword">ROOTMEN</span><span class="chappg"><a href="#Page_28">28</a></span></p> +</div> + + + +<hr /> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 375px;"> +<a href="images/i007.jpg"><img src="images/i007tn.jpg" width="375" height="506" class="plain" alt="First Chapter." title="First Chapter." /></a> +</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_1" id="Page_1">[1]</a></span></p> +<h1>The King of Root Valley</h1> + +<p class="fm4"><span class="smcap">and</span></p> + +<p class="fm9">His Curious Daughter.</p> + +<hr class="fm" /> + +<h2>CHAPTER THE FIRST.</h2> + +<p class="hang">the root-valley and its inhabitants.—the story-telling guests.—the +king of root-valley and his curious daughter.—the aerial +chariot.—festivities in the town.—return through the air from +the roof of the town-house.—whims of the princess.</p> + +<p>The road between Nuremberg and Leipsic ran in former times, +in one part, along the edge of a dark forest, which stretched into +the country far over the mountains. In the middle of this forest +the rocks enclosed a deep green valley, bordered by almost impenetrable +hedges, so that neither man nor beast could enter it. Here +dwelt at that time the merry little people of the Rootmen. They +were pretty little creatures, in form and look like human beings,—the +tallest about six inches high, and the smallest as long as your +little finger. In summer they lived in mossy bowers and under +the leaves of the tall fern; in winter they nestled among the roots<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_2" id="Page_2">[2]</a></span> +of trees, in the holes of some gnarled old trunk, and crept into +the clefts in the rocks. Their dress was fine and elegant: the +little men wore coats and hose of moss, and the little women +dresses of pretty variegated flowers, leaves, and gossamer, according +as the weather was warm or cold. They never felt the time long, +having always plenty of employment; they had to keep their +roads in order, gather in their stores, and the like; their favourite +pastimes were climbing and jumping, and arranging grand water-parties +in nutshells upon the brook which ran through their +country. At other times they would play at Hunt-the-hare with +the Grasshoppers and May-beetles, and dance the most graceful +dances to the song of the Birds: nor must it be forgotten that +they understood the language of all living creatures.</p> + +<p>Two festivals in the year gave the little Rootmen especial delight. +On certain days in Spring and Autumn there arrived large +troops of merry guests, who were hospitably welcomed and entertained, +and who in return used to tell the inquisitive little people +what was passing in the world without.</p> + +<p>These guests were no other than the thousands and thousands +of Birds of Passage, who in Spring came from the South, and in +Autumn from the North. The Storks told their village stories, +the Swallows twittered their fairy-tales, and the Nightingales +brought with them new and beautiful songs. There came frequently +too a troop of migrating Rats, who gave descriptions of<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_3" id="Page_3">[3]</a></span> +their travels, while Magpies and Ravens told legends and tales of +marvel that made one shudder. In this manner the little Rootmen +received constantly news of the whole wide world. Such +stories of course filled them with curiosity to make acquaintance +with Men, but an innate feeling of dread prevented the little +beings from quitting their peaceful Valley.</p> + +<p>Now one time there reigned over this people a dear good old +King, who had one daughter, a very beautiful Princess; she was +however more full of curiosity than all other maidens in the world, +nay even more so indeed than her own little countrywomen. Her +longing to see Men and Women in the world without, of whom +she had heard so many wonderful things, had grown very strong. +The good old King did all in his power to dissuade her from this +wish, representing Men as fierce and selfish giants: "No living +creature," said he, "is secure from their mastery; the biggest elephant +is obliged to dance to their will, as well as the smallest +flea." But all was of no avail; his daughter had taken it into +her head to visit the world, and go she would. The thought of +this preyed upon her mind, and she grew more and more melancholy +and thin; until at length the King resolved to grant her +wish, in the hope that the sight would frighten her for ever, and +drive away her curiosity.</p> + +<p>A beautiful new Birds'-nest was therefore immediately selected, +cushioned with feathers and moss, and over this was fixed a<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_4" id="Page_4">[4]</a></span> +shadowy roof of leaves, as a shelter from the sun. In this car +the Root-King seated himself with the Princess; nor was it forgotten +to place in it also a delicate repast of juicy berries, honey, +and tender young buds. Two Cranes, who had practised their +task for a week previously, took up the nest with their bills, and +flew with it through the air to the nearest large Town inhabited +by Men.</p> + +<p>In a few hours the two birds were hovering with the nest over +the houses of the town. With a gentle flight they descended, and +deposited the royal aerial chariot carefully upon the tower of the +Townhouse, whence there was a view over all the streets, without +any fear of being seen. That was indeed a sight! Even the King +himself had never imagined that a city of Men could be so splendid. +The Princess too shouted and jumped with joy, until she +nearly fell out of the nest, had not one of the Cranes with his +long bill suddenly caught her by her little leg.</p> + +<p>Now, as chance would have it, on this same day the Prince of +that country was celebrating his wedding with the daughter of a +foreign King, so that the whole city was in one blaze of splendour.</p> + +<p>What shows and sights were there to be seen! processions, fairs, +reviews of a thousand regiments, theatres in the open air, rope-dancers, +races,—in short, it is impossible to describe them all. +But first and foremost the Prince and his young wife! how +splendid he looked in his scarlet uniform, with the star upon his<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5">[5]</a></span> +breast, moustachios, and large blue eyes; and she, in a red velvet +dress, covered with pearls and precious stones, which sparkled +and sent their light high up to the very gallery of the Townhouse. +Wherever you looked there was something new and strange, and +so it went on from early in the morning until the sun disappeared +behind the mountains.</p> + +<p>However much all these marvellous sights delighted the old +King, his opinion of Mankind remained unaltered, and he was +sorry that his daughter should just have chosen this day to witness +the most brilliant side of Men's doings. He was however +too weak to deny himself a view of the scene; nay, he would +even have remained up there still longer, but that, as night fell +and darkness came on, some men suddenly appeared on the gallery, +to illuminate the building and let off the fireworks. The +men approached the nest. How the Princess started with affright +at the sight of such gigantic forms! The King too lost his speech +from terror; and had not the Cranes, of themselves, lifted up the +stork's nest into the air and borne it quickly off, there would have +been an end of the King and his daughter, and of our story too. +However fortunately they were just in time: and still from afar off +the aerial travellers saw the fireworks fly into the air, whizzing +and fizzing, and crackling and sparkling, from the tower of the +Townhouse, which was certainly all very splendid at a distance, +but close by would have been certain death. So the King and his<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6">[6]</a></span> +daughter returned safe and sound to their own Root-Valley.</p> + +<p>The little Princess of course now saw well that Men were too +big for her to be able to share in their grand doings; still her old +fancies and longing returned, and even stronger than ever, although +in a somewhat altered form. She was firmly convinced that there +must be upon earth yet another race of beings as small as her own +little countrymen, but as clever and wise as Men; and so she resolved +never in her life to marry, unless a Prince of her own size +should take her for his wife; but then too he must have exactly +such an hussar's jacket, and exactly such a star on his breast, and +just the same large blue eyes, as the Man-Prince in the city; and +he must also rule over a little People, who possessed exactly the +same peculiarities as they.</p> + +<p>These whims and fancies of his daughter made the good old +King quite sad. Right gladly would he have had a son-in-law,—but +such a one! where in the wide world was he to be found? He +indeed did all in his power to form and teach his People according +to the rules and laws of Men, but nothing came of it,—they +were not a whit the cleverer. The little fellows were never +tired of <i>hearing</i> of Men and their doings, but to become like them—no +indeed! They would remain for ever and aye what they +were,—free, merry little Rootmen! The end of it was that the +Princess got no husband, and the King no son-in-law.</p> + + + +<hr /> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 375px;"> +<a href="images/i014.jpg"><img src="images/i014tn.jpg" width="375" height="483" class="plain" alt="Second Chapter." title="Second Chapter." /></a> +</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">[7]</a></span></p> +<h2>CHAPTER THE SECOND.</h2> + +<p class="hang">the spring festival in root-valley.—the nut-field.—the migrating +birds.—a strange people make their appearance.—nutcracker +and harlequin.—the princess falls into raptures.</p> + + +<p>Several years had passed, and the Spring Festival was returning. +All was green and blooming; the trees and hedges were already +in full leaf, and rock, vale, hill and dale were clothed with their +new dress. The Rootmen had already quitted their dark winter-quarters, +and betaken themselves to their summer abodes by the +cool brook, which now once more ran purling merrily along. All +awaited with eager expectation the appearance of the winged +guests.</p> + +<p>At length the important day arrived. It was a fine May morning; +through the young foliage of the nut-trees the sunshine played +and sparkled on flowers and turf, on pebbles and rippling waters. +Early in the morning the little Heralds, decked out in new coats of +moss, were seen riding through the Valley upon grasshoppers, and +crying aloud with a clear voice,—</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8">[8]</a></span> +<span class="i0">"Come forth, ye Rootmen, all come out!<br /></span> +<span class="i0"> For the Spring is come, and the birds are about."<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>The summons was no sooner heard, than the whole of the little +People came pouring from all sides into the Nut-field, which was +set apart for such festivals, and was on this occasion decked out +in the most beautiful manner. In the middle, upon a molehill +prettily covered with small pebbles, stood the throne for the good +King and his fair daughter; it was made of snail-shells and mussel-shells, +and cushioned with feathers. A long alley of lilies-of-the-valley,<!--Page 16 added hyphen: changed 'lilies-of-the valley' to 'lilies-of-the-valley'--> +six deep, led up to the throne; and when the royal procession +galloped up on squirrels, all the little lily-bells rang with a +lovely melody; for at each lily was stationed a spider, to pull the +bells with a thread of its cobweb.</p> + +<p>A solemn silence followed. The Birds had not yet made their +appearance. They had probably alighted somewhere in the neighbourhood, +to smooth and arrange their feathers, ruffled by their +long flight; they must of course show themselves to their kind +hosts in decent attire! On a sudden was heard from afar a sound, +which drew nearer and nearer, the usual sign that the guests were +approaching; and soon there was a great rustling in the air. First +came a flock of birds flying over the forest, then more and more, +until at last the whole field was quite overshadowed by the winged +guests, who alighted in large flocks upon the ground.</p> + +<p>A general shout of joy resounded on all sides. The newly-arrived +guests were speedily refreshed with food and drink, and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[9]</a></span> +then an old Stork, the most famous story-teller of his time, +mounted upon a large stone, which served him for a rostrum. +He had just put on that pleasant look with which he used to +begin all his stories, he had just cleared his throat and opened +his long red bill, when on a sudden he was interrupted by a loud +murmur from the crowd, and a strange sound, as of many carriages +and horses, was heard in the distance. The Heralds of the +Root-King instantly hastened to ascertain the cause, and presently +returned announcing that a new and strange People were coming +through the forest in innumerable troops, led by a Prince in a +scarlet hussar's uniform, with large blue eyes, and a star upon his +breast: his name was Prince Nutcracker, and with his councillor +Harlequin he sought a gracious audience of the Root-King and +his daughter.</p> + +<p>At this news the Princess turned red as scarlet, and the King +pale as death, with affright. The Princess imagined that the +Man-Prince in the town had perceived her on the gallery of the +Townhouse, and was now coming to marry her; but the King +feared that the giant race of Men were come to destroy his +subjects and conquer his country. When however they heard +that Prince Nutcracker and his followers were not bigger than +the Rootmen, the Princess's fear was changed into such joy, that +she fell on her father's neck, and kissed his hands again and +again; then the King commanded the Stork to cease his storytelling,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">[10]</a></span> +and the Prince with his followers to be conducted immediately +to his presence.</p> + +<p>How Prince Nutcracker and his councillor Harlequin happened +to come hither the following Chapter will tell.</p> + + + +<hr /> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 375px;"> +<a href="images/i019.jpg"><img src="images/i019tn.jpg" width="375" height="507" class="plain" alt="Third Chapter." title="Third Chapter." /></a> +</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[11]</a></span></p> +<h2>CHAPTER THE THIRD.</h2> + +<p class="hang">the wonderful brook.—the overturned carrier's waggon.—nutcracker +and harlequin come to life.—the three wishes.—the +box of nuremberg toys.—the wandering rats.—how harlequin +brings to life a whole nation and army.—battle with the +star.—homage.—procession to the root-valley.</p> + + +<p>The road from Nuremberg to Leipsic, at the time of our story, +ran in one part close to a deep hollow, through which a clear +brook wound its way. The stream flowed directly from Root-Valley, +and had the marvellous property, that whatever fell into it +instantly became alive, provided only that it had previously had +the form of some living thing.</p> + +<p>It chanced one day that a carrier's waggon was passing this spot +on its way to the Leipsic Fair, packed full of boxes, when on a +sudden a wheel came off, and the waggon rolled over into a +hollow. Now in the boxes were Nuremberg toys of all kinds, +enough to fit out a whole fair. When the poor carrier saw his +waggon overthrown into the hollow, where he could not get at it, +off he ran in despair, and nobody ever after heard what became of +him. Certain it is that by the upset of the waggon some of the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[12]</a></span> +boxes were broken, and, of the puppets which they contained, a +Nutcracker and a Harlequin rolled into the brook. No sooner +were they touched by the water, than instantly a marvellous animation +darted through their limbs. Slowly they raised themselves, +and stared at one another with amazement. There stood +Nutcracker, upon his stiff legs, like a post, beautifully varnished +over, with his bright blue eyes, his wooden pigtail, and the star +upon his breast; while Harlequin, in his particoloured jacket, with +his laughing face, clapped together his hands and legs over his +head for very joy, and hopped about like a magpie.</p> + +<p>When these first signs of animation subsided into more tranquil +reflection, Harlequin opened his lips, and said, "Great Prince! that +you are a Prince, and I your merry councillor, is clear enough, +for otherwise you would have no star on your breast, and I no +merry-andrew's jacket; but what shall we do first?"</p> + +<p>"That is a question for <i>you</i> to answer, not for <i>me</i>," replied +Nutcracker, whom the consciousness of his high birth had already +made grave and haughty. Muttering in his beard, he kept on +moving his under jaw up and down, and continued, "Dear Harlequin! +that I am, as you rightly say, born to be a great man, is +proved, not only by my star, but also by three wishes which have +just come into my head. The first wish is to have a dishfull of +the finest nuts, for which I have a marvellous appetite; the +second is to have a faithful people and a brilliant army, for<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[13]</a></span> +unquestionably I am born to govern; the third and last wish +is to marry a rich and beautiful Princess, who shall bring me as +her dowry a pretty portion of land, where I may live with your +assistance in all possible ease and comfort, eat nuts, govern my +people, and pass the time merrily. Your duty is now to advise +me how these wishes may be fulfilled."</p> + +<p>"Better do than advise," cried Harlequin: "only trust, my +Prince, to my merriment. Before the sun goes down, you shall +be in possession of all these trifles, or my name is not Harlequin, +and my legs will never more dance and clatter over my +head."</p> + +<p>So saying, in a twinkling he climbed up the nearest nut-tree, +and shook it with all his might. The large nuts fell like a shower +of hail, and the hungry Prince began to crack and eat them with +all speed; and he did not feel quite revived until he had eaten his +fill.</p> + +<p>The second wish it was far more difficult to accomplish; nevertheless +Harlequin found ways and means to counsel in this case +likewise. The contents of the waggon, which lay scattered about, +contained people and soldiers enough; he had only to open +the boxes, and bring to life all the thousands of puppets which +were shut up in them; but unluckily the lids of the boxes were +fastened down so tight, that the united strength of the two little +men was unable to force them open. They toiled and moiled till<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">[14]</a></span> +they were quite exhausted, but all in vain. In this perplexity a +word of advice was worth something. Nutcracker's big blue eyes +started out of his head from the mere effort of considering and +contriving, till they looked like those of a crayfish; Harlequin, +on the contrary, never lost heart or ceased his merriment for an +instant. He twirled round and round like a top, looking for help +on all sides; and before he himself thought of it, indeed an unexpected +aid came in a marvellous way.</p> + +<p>Afar off the brown fields which bordered the forest-glen appeared +all at once to become alive. An immense host of migrating +Rats, on their journey from the South to the North, were advancing +this way, and by chance fell directly upon the scattered heap +of boxes.</p> + +<p>"Out of the way, my Prince!" cried Harlequin, "if we would +not let ourselves be devoured like hazelnuts."</p> + +<p>They both sprang on one side. The Rats, which, as every one +knows, never turn out of their road, but always go straight forward, +through field and wood, over hedge and ditch, gnawing +their way through stick and stone, fell without ado upon the chests +and boxes. The fresh young pine-wood boards were a welcome +prize to their sharp teeth, and so too the strong hempen ropes. +Speedily off fell the box-lids, one here, one there,—crack went a +rope on this side, another on that! The most splendid toys +presently lay scattered about in confusion on the road, and some of<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15">[15]</a></span> +the Rats fell to gratifying their nibbling propensity upon them. +When Harlequin beheld this, he cried aloud to the Rats, "A +good appetite to you, ye board-eaters! have you enough?" And +so saying he jumped into the brook, and flung his legs and arms +about him, till the water splashed over all the other little Nutcrackers, +Harlequins, and tin and wooden soldiers, who instantly +became alive and jumped upon their legs.</p> + +<p>"Follow me!" cried Harlequin: "one fool makes many,—one +wise man many wise!" And he was right. Fresh puppets kept +continually rising up and coming to life; the regiments formed +themselves, the little horses were soon harnessed to the cannons +and drew them, the tin Generals put themselves at the head of +their troops, and the order of battle was arranged against the +Rats. It was indeed high time, for many of the puppets had +already fallen under the sharp teeth of their assailants. At the +sight of this, Nutcracker's spirit and heroic courage were aroused; +his eyes rolled, his jaws chattered with very thirst of fight, his +wooden pigtail accompanied all the motions of his mouth with +rapid twitchings. Impatiently he drew his sword, and at the head +of his Body-guard (who were also Nutcrackers, but without the +star, and therefore no princes) he led his army to battle.</p> + +<p>And now he gave the signal to fire! Instantly all the firearms +and cannons of the innumerable regiments were discharged at the +Rats, who, terrified by the strange noise, took to flight in all haste.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16">[16]</a></span> +Thus a brilliant victory was gained, and in place of the late confusion +of overturned boxes, there was now to be seen quite a new +world, glittering in all the colours of the rainbow. Towns and +villages, fortresses and country-houses, kitchens and drawing-rooms, +lay scattered one upon another, whilst thousands of little +men and animals were running about. The first thing now was, +of course, that Prince Nutcracker should receive the homage of +his subjects as their ruler.</p> + +<p>But there still remained the third task to be accomplished,—to +find a Princess, and with her hand to obtain a piece of land upon +which the new colony might settle. Here again Harlequin's ingenuity +soon suggested advice and aid. Some of the wounded and +captured Rats were commanded to give a description of all the +Princesses whom they had met with in the course of their travels. +When they came to tell of the beauty of the Princess of Root-Valley, +the wooden heart of Prince Nutcracker, as he listened to +their description, warmed so, that a sound shot through it as if a +deal board were cracking and splitting in a room suddenly heated. +This sound he regarded as an omen; this and no other Princess +was to be his Queen. He therefore resolved instantly to go with +all his People to where the Princess lived, and sue for her hand.</p> + +<p>The procession was forthwith marshalled in due order; the Rat +prisoners served as pioneers and guides; after these followed the +cavalry, then the Prince with all his Court, and behind him the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17">[17]</a></span> +cannons and infantry. Now came rocking-horses, heavily laden +with band-boxes, in which were towns, villages, theatres, fortresses, +kitchens, and so forth, and all the furniture and cooking utensils; +behind these followed the little baggage-waggons, and tin and +wooden coaches crammed full of passengers; then people on foot, +of all sorts, in every fashion of dress from the time of Adam to the +present day. After all these came long droves of animals, large +and small, out of all the Noah's-arks and menageries which had +been in the waggon,—first the tame and then the wild animals, +the latter accompanied by tin Bedouins and Circassians, who had +to watch lest the little roaring beasts should devour each other or +any other harmless beings. And all the while Harlequins, Scaramouches, +and Pantaloons kept jumping and skipping about in +the procession, and by their tricks and merriment kept all the +people in good heart and humour on the long and arduous march.</p> + +<p>Meanwhile a large fleet of magnetic ships, with tin swans, ducks, +and fishes swimming around them, floated in state on the wonderful +brook, along the bank of which the procession marched. +Now let the Reader picture to himself this interminable multitude +advancing in the beautiful green woods, all amidst lilies-of-the-valley, +violets and buttercups, lettuce-leaves, nettles, and ferns, +marching over hill and dale, in a sparkling sunshine, and with a +blue sky overhead,—and withal the toil and efforts of the little +wights, the creaking of wheels, the cracking of whips, the word of<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18">[18]</a></span> +command resounding through the ranks, the music and singing +when the path was smooth and easy, and the cries and shrieks +upon the bad roads,—how pretty and animated and merry the +whole scene must have been! No wonder indeed that, along the +whole way which the procession journeyed, the birds came out of +the trees and hedges, the beetles crept out of the flowers, even +the worms and snails came out of their hiding-places, all full of +curiosity to see the sight; and no wonder too that they were all +impressed with great admiration for Prince Nutcracker, who ruled +over such a splendid people, and even made long travels with them!</p> + +<p>After long and arduous toil, and incredible efforts, the Colony +arrived at the large Nutfield, of which we have before heard.</p> + + + +<hr /> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 375px;"> +<a href="images/i028.jpg"><img src="images/i028tn.jpg" width="375" height="504" class="plain" alt="Fourth Chapter." title="Fourth Chapter." /></a> +</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19">[19]</a></span></p> +<h2>CHAPTER THE FOURTH.</h2> + +<p class="hang">nutcracker is betrothed to the princess of root-valley, and takes +possession of the nutfield.—the birds depart.—what ill comes +of it.—wedding and parting.</p> + + +<p>Prince Nutcracker and his followers were received in the most +friendly manner by the good King of Root-Valley. The Princess +was in a sea of rapture at the brilliant appearance of the bright, +varnished, wooden Prince, who in a formal and well-turned speech +declared his love for her, together with his other wishes, in a +pleasing and appropriate manner. The old King even was so +moved by his words, that without more ado he gave him his +daughter to wife, and the whole Nutfield as her dowry. And +now, when the old man tenderly embraced his future son-in-law, +all the people around shouted with joy, and all the thousands +of little birds joined in the general jubilee, piping and singing, +and clapping their wings, amidst shouts of "Long live Prince +Nutcracker and his Bride!" Then it was arranged that the whole +procession of the Puppet-people should take possession of their +new land, the Nutfield, before the eyes of the assembled Rootmen,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20">[20]</a></span> +which immediately took place.</p> + +<p>As often happens in life, that dear old friends are forgotten and +put aside for new ones, so it fell out in this instance. The migrating +Birds, who had formerly been treated with the greatest +attention and respect, and who on this occasion testified their +sympathy and joy at the union of the two Peoples, had in the +course of this day to experience the mortification of seeing their +old friends turn their backs upon them. The little Root-mannikins, +in eager curiosity, pushed them back on all sides, and gave +them pretty clearly to understand that they might take to flight, +and remain away for ever.</p> + +<p>Indignant at such treatment, the Birds rose all together upon +the wing, like one, hovered an instant over the heads of the two +Peoples with a loud noise, and then disappeared with rapid flight +in the blue distance.</p> + +<p>Oh horror and alarm! What happened then? The sudden +flight of these thousands of Birds created such a rush of air, like +a whirlwind, that scarcely a man of the newly-arrived guests could +keep himself on his feet. Whole ranks of tin soldiers fell one +upon another; the cardpaper heroes, actors, and huntsmen were +swept far away over the fields; and even Prince Nutcracker himself, +who was at that instant just going in a polite manner to kiss +the hand of his beloved Princess, was so shaken that he staggered +and fell, rolled down the molehill, and lay sprawling at the foot of<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21">[21]</a></span> +it with open mouth.</p> + +<p>An ill omen this for the power of the new Government! The +great admiration which the Rootmen had hitherto felt for their +new friends quickly turned into disdain at this catastrophe. The +good King and the fair Princess alone did not allow themselves to +be carried away by their astonishment; they instantly descended +from their throne, and helped the fallen Prince to regain his legs. +But Nutcracker broke out into bitter reproaches; he called the +Birds, who had upset him, silly high-flying fools, who set themselves +above the whole world, and overturned all rule and order. +His anger was not to be softened, until his future father-in-law +promised that, to prevent the recurrence of any similar disaster, +he would allow nothing flying to enter his kingdom, not even +flying leaves.</p> + +<p>One by one all the little people got up on their legs again, and +the rest of the day was passed in merriment and feasting. On +the morrow the wedding of Prince Nutcracker and his fair Bride +was celebrated with the grandest solemnities; after which the +two Peoples took leave of one another in the most friendly manner; +the Root-mannikins returned to their own Valley, and the +Puppet-folks remained on the Nutfield.</p> + + + +<hr /> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 375px;"> +<a href="images/i033.jpg"><img src="images/i033tn.jpg" width="375" height="514" class="plain" alt="Fifth Chapter." title="Fifth Chapter." /></a> +</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22">[22]</a></span></p> +<h2>CHAPTER THE FIFTH.</h2> + +<p class="hang">the puppet-kingdom is set in order.—haughtiness of nutcracker, +his wife, and subjects.—antipathy of the two peoples.—the +root-king abdicates his crown.—nutcracker a tyrant.—preparations +for war in root-valley.—the war.—harlequin's death.—flight +and destruction of the puppet-kingdom.—nutcracker's +death.—the princess saved.</p> + + +<p>It took Prince Nutcracker a full week to put his State in order, to +erect towns, fortresses, and villages on their proper spots, and to +assign to his subjects their places and sphere of activity. All this +was admirably executed with the aid of his indefatigable councillor +Harlequin, who was the soul of the whole undertaking. Everything +too seemed to favour the new State, for as yet there had +been no cloud in the sky, no gust of wind to overthrow a company +of soldiers, no rain to wash off the beautiful colours of the +castles, or to wet the princely decorations of the great theatre.</p> + +<p>Thus lived the young Princess for some days with her husband +in joy and splendour. She had laid aside her old dresses of leaves, +flowers, and gossamer, and was arrayed like the most elegant State +Puppet, after the newest Paris fashions. She left off her natural<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23">[23]</a></span> +lively movements, and assumed the stiff and stately deportment +of her husband and the ladies of the Court, who considered +it unbecoming to turn their head ever so little on one side. She +almost wholly forgot how to walk, while she was constantly driving +to balls, concerts, and parades, to cockchafer-hunts and fly-chases. +Her chief delight was in finery: every day she put on a new +dress, and before her windows were shops of all the newest +fashions, so that her first glance fell upon them when she got up +in the morning.</p> + +<p>Her husband too, and his subjects, grew continually more and +more haughty. They looked down with contempt upon everything +that was not a Puppet, or so finely painted and varnished +as they. Every bird that flew past, or came near them, was pursued +with the greatest cruelty.</p> + +<p>Even the Rootmen, who came from time to time for their pleasure, +were received with more and more coldness, insomuch that +they soon ceased coming at all. Nay the good King himself was +compelled to witness how his son-in-law and his own daughter +came in time to treat him with indifference. Naturally the former +friendship of the two Peoples was soon turned into bitter hatred. +Before a month had elapsed Prince Nutcracker's arrogance became +so great, that he demanded of the Rootmen a monthly tribute +of two thousand of the finest hazelnuts: at the same time +he assembled his troops and planted his fortresses in a line on the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24">[24]</a></span> +frontier of the Root-kingdom, resolving, in case of refusal, to invade +with his army the territory of his father-in-law.</p> + +<p>Such a violation of all right naturally filled the gentle spirit +of the good old King with indignation. One whole day long he +wept tears of bitterness into his mossy beard; he then publicly +renounced his ungrateful daughter, and forbade her ever to come +into his sight again. At length he retired from all affairs of government; +he felt that he was too tender-hearted for such arduous +business.</p> + +<p>The tidings of this soon reached his daughter. Her eyes were +now at once opened, and she saw how unworthily she had given +away her hand, how from vanity she had violated her duty to her +father, and to all those who had once been dear to her. Alas, it +was too late! She tried all means to dissuade her husband from +his unjust demands, but he was resolute; and when she continued +unceasingly her entreaties, his anger turned against her likewise; +he shut her up in her room, and would not hear a word more from +her. Instead of joy and peace, her constant companions now were +sorrow and repentance.</p> + +<p>Meanwhile in the Root-kingdom a young and vigorous King +was elected, who shared the hostility of his people against the insolent +intruders, and forthwith declared war upon them. He resolved +by a decisive battle either to annihilate or drive them away, +and to this end he summoned his Allies from all sides to his aid.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25">[25]</a></span> +Rabbits and moles, lizards and worms, were to invade Nutcracker's +country by an underground attack, and overthrow towns and villages; +locusts, bees, and cockchafers were to fall upon the enemy +from the air; whilst on the ground the Rootmen themselves should +assail the foe with sharp rush-lances and two-edged blades of +grass.</p> + +<p>The morning of the fatal battle dawned gloomily; the sky was +covered with black clouds. Clad in their green and brown moss +coats the Rootmen marched toward the Nutfield, so that the +enemy did not observe them until they were close under his fortresses. +Suddenly there burst forth a cannonade and firing from +all the loopholes; but the balls remained sticking in the moss of +the assailants, who answered the terrific discharge with loud laughter. +Quickly the army of the Rootmen pressed onward into the +Nutfield: Prince Nutcracker threw himself upon them with his +Body-guard, but was driven back; whereupon he fled into the +palace, and made Harlequin his Fieldmarshal. With wild leaps +of despair Harlequin led the main army to the field.</p> + +<p>But soon a general panic seized upon all. The subterranean +Allies of the enemy had already undermined the ground along +which the army of Puppets were marching, and with it the fortresses, +towns, and villages on the Nutfield; at the same time +almost all the buildings round about tumbled one upon another +with a loud crash. Fieldmarshal Harlequin himself was seized by<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_26" id="Page_26">[26]</a></span> +the leg by a fierce old Mole, who dragged him down into the earth, +in spite of the most heroic struggles: he was never seen again!</p> + +<p>This was the signal for a general and wild flight of Nutcracker's +brilliant army, who fled to the royal palace with the cry of "Save +yourselves as you can!" The palace consisted of strongly-built +wooden saloons, and longest withstood the labours of the undermining +animals. Here Nutcracker had already put the horses to +his State-carriage; then quickly jumping into it with his wife, he +holloa'd to the coachman, "Off and away, far out of this Valley, +as fast as you can, and as far as possible!" And all his people +crowded round the coach in wild confusion to find a refuge, for +on every side insects came flying and buzzing around in the air, +and with their wings overthrew everything that was not firmly +fixed.</p> + +<p>Away went the fugitives, rolling over the field like a great ball. +Although hard pressed by the enemy, and with the loss of many +killed, they succeeded in creeping through the great hedge which +surrounded the Valley, and escaping into the forest.</p> + +<p>The reverses of the insolent Prince and his subjects now reached +their height: the very sky waged war against them, and poured +down upon them torrents of rain. Nutcracker and his Princess +saw with grief, from the windows of their coach, the torrent increasing +and overflowing the road,—their subjects, houses, and +furniture swept past in the whirlpool, one after another falling<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27">[27]</a></span> +under the toils of the march, tumbling over precipices or getting +entangled in roots, nettles, and heaps of fallen leaves, and perishing +miserably. Nutcracker's whole People were speedily destroyed: +he too had not gone many yards, when the water unglued the +joints of his coach, and the princely pair were carried away by +the flood. But the natural strong and active spirit of the Princess +was now re-awakened by the danger. How had she once used to +skip about exultingly, and swim upon the waves in such weather! +With one hand she seized her husband's pigtail, and with the +other a twig. She tried with a spring to reach the root of a +tree; but alas! the hair of the terrified Prince was not strong +enough: the pigtail remained in her hand, and she saw her husband +carried away by the torrent and vanish from her sight.</p> + +<p>At first she called sorrowfully after him, but presently her natural +spirit became only the more daring. She threw off her silly +fashionable dress, soaked with the rain, which cramped her slender +limbs; and quickly clothing herself in the first leaves she could +find, climbed up like a squirrel into an old tree, and in a hole in +its branches sought shelter from the storm and the approaching +night.</p> + + + +<hr /> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 375px;"> +<a href="images/i040.jpg"><img src="images/i040tn.jpg" width="375" height="502" class="plain" alt="Sixth Chapter." title="Sixth Chapter." /></a> +</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_28" id="Page_28">[28]</a></span></p> +<h2>CHAPTER THE SIXTH.</h2> + +<p class="hang">the birdcatcher and his family.—how the children return home +with rare treasures.—nutcracker's dead body.—the little +maiden in the stork's nest, and who she was.—affecting reconciliation +on the nutfield.—threatening danger to the rootmen.—emigration +of the rootmen.</p> + + +<p>At the time when all these wonderful occurrences happened, there +lived at the entrance of this forest an old Birdcatcher and his +family. During the two years since he had settled here, his business +had prospered remarkably; and, especially in the Spring +and Autumn, so many birds had been taken in his nets, that +he had earned many a bright dollar, and had laid by many a spare +penny.</p> + +<p>Now once on a Spring day a heavy rain had fallen, and, strange +to say, ever since that time not a bird was longer to be seen +there: every morning the Birdcatcher found his nets torn, his limed +twigs destroyed, and even his screech-owl and other decoy-birds +had vanished from their cages and perches. And yet he knew well<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_29" id="Page_29">[29]</a></span> +enough there lived no other man in the whole forest who could +have done all this.</p> + +<p>One day he had sent his children with the cart deep into the +forest, to fetch brushwood. Evening came on, and they did not +return. It already began to grow dark, and as they still had not +come back, his anxiety increased, and he determined to go in search +of them. He had just crossed the threshold, when suddenly he +heard a shouting and singing at a distance in the wood. Joyous +sounds! it was his dear children, who were dragging and pushing +along the little cart, piled up and closely packed.</p> + +<p>"You good-for-nothing little brats, where have you been all +this time?" he exclaimed, half angrily, though overjoyed. But +they laughed, and removing the green brushwood with which +they had covered the loaded cart, they exclaimed, quite red in +the face with delight, "Only see, father, what we have here!" And, +lo and behold, the cart was filled from top to bottom with broken, +bent, and gnaw'd playthings!</p> + +<p>And now they went on to tell the whole story of their treasures; +and amidst a Babel of voices, all speaking together, one louder +than another, the sum and substance of the story was this. After +losing their way, they had wandered about till they came to a +narrow, smooth dale, which lost itself like a footpath in the wood. +The ground was all wet and miry from the rain. Suddenly, to +their amazement, they found all these splendid things scattered<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_30" id="Page_30">[30]</a></span> +about in radiant confusion; and, had not the sun already sunk +behind the pine-trees, they would have followed the path still +further. It seemed to have no end, but disappeared deep in the +thicket, and, as far as they could see, it was all bestrewn with +similar treasures.</p> + +<p>The story seemed strange to their father, and he resolved to +follow the path they spoke of the next day, hoping in his own +mind to discover a track of the culprit who had decoyed away the +birds and torn his nets.</p> + +<p>The next morning, as soon as the dawn glimmered through the +still forest, the Birdcatcher's whole family were on their way with +the wood-cart to the dale; and, truly enough, there they found +everything as the children had described.</p> + +<p>"Look, look, father! there is another splendid little wooden +fellow!" exclaimed the youngest child, raking out of the mire a +little Nutcracker, bedaubed with mud, his colours all washed off, +and his pedestal lost.</p> + +<p>"Heyday! what a face the fellow has, and what a mouth, and +what goggling eyes!" cried all the children in one voice.</p> + +<p>"Silly nonsense! stupid toy!" exclaimed the old man angrily, +as he snatched the Nutcracker from them, and flung it far away +into the wood.</p> + +<p>But now a wonderful sight presented itself to his view.</p> + +<p>Out of a Crane's nest, high up on an old oak-tree, there rose a<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_31" id="Page_31">[31]</a></span> +little maiden of human form, quite enveloped in gossamer. She +climbed down from the tree like a squirrel, ran with all speed to +the spot where Nutcracker lay, dug him a grave with her hands, +and, with the aid of the two Cranes, laid him in it, and raked the +earth over the spot; after which she climbed again up the tree, +and into the nest.</p> + +<p>The Birdcatcher and his family stood open-mouthed, in silent +astonishment; they feared to frighten away the little maiden, but +this strange sight made them hesitate what to do.</p> + +<p>"So, so, then, you are the little witch who robs me of my +bread!" at last exclaimed the Birdcatcher, giving vent to his +repressed anger. "Wait there awhile, my pretty little bird: tomorrow +morning we will come again with axe and nets; we will +then cut down your tree in a trice and catch you. For the present +let us see where this path leads, and whether there are not +more of you here."</p> + +<p>Before he had finished speaking, he espied the little maiden +peeping anxiously from under her white veil out of the nest, and +making a sign. And instantly the Cranes came flying to her, +took up the nest with their bills, raised it from the branches, and +bore it swiftly through the air.</p> + +<p>Who other could the little maiden be than our Princess of Root-Valley?</p> + +<p>Fear of her father and her countrypeople had prevented her returning<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_32" id="Page_32">[32]</a></span> +to her native Valley. At the same time a feeling of sorrow +for the haughtiness with which she had treated the Birds whom +she had once loved, had grown so strong in her heart, that she resolved +to make amends for her former ill-conduct to these good-natured +creatures. Since the fatal day when her husband and his +people had been all destroyed, she had made her abode in this +tree, and taken under her tender care all the young birds whose +parents had died. Indeed she it really was who, in spite of her +fear of Men, had every night destroyed the Birdcatcher's nets, and +had warned the birds against venturing near him.</p> + +<p>At this instant however she saw the danger which threatened +her countrymen, if these selfish people should discover the Root-kingdom. +All other considerations therefore must yield. Without +delay she desired the Cranes to convey her straight to her own +Valley, where she was resolved to alight, happen what might.</p> + +<p>In the Nutfield, which had so recently been the scene of her +false splendour and her follies, the Rootmen happened on this very +day to be assembled. Notwithstanding her wrong conduct, they +had not yet given up the Princess, and, at the entreaties of her +father, they were met to consider what steps could be taken to +search for her.</p> + +<p>The Cranes alighted with the nest. In an instant the repentant +daughter fell on the neck of her overjoyed father, and all +the People compassionated her, and forgave her from the bottom<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_33" id="Page_33">[33]</a></span> +of their hearts. In their delight at seeing her again, all were +ready to give themselves up to unrestrained rejoicing, but the +Princess checked their merriment. She told her People the danger +which threatened them of being discovered by Men. Anxiety +and terror seized the Rootmen at this news: it was no longer +possible to remain in the forest. They at once resolved to leave +Root-Valley, and to emigrate by subterranean passages to distant +lands.</p> + +<p>The whole body put themselves forthwith in motion, when just +at that instant there appeared upon the rocky heights, behind +the thick hedge, the Birdcatcher with his family. If these folks +had been astonished at the first instant, how much more so were +they now, when they saw all the little Rootmen disappear in the +rocks!</p> + +<p>Angry and impatient at not being able to get at them, the Birdcatcher +tried all he could to break through the hedge, but in vain,—he +only came off with scratched and bleeding hands.</p> + +<p>"Ill-luck!" he exclaimed; "had I but my axe and nets, to +catch those tiny little creatures, I might sell them in the town, or +make a show of them, and become the richest man in the world!" +And thereupon he took his whistle, and began to whistle an alluring +melody, thinking by this means to entice the little People like +birds; but this attempt was likewise in vain. All the little Rootmen +passed before his eyes into the rock, actually laughing and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_34" id="Page_34">[34]</a></span> +making faces at him; and when the very last little elf vanished in +the rock, the opening closed. Since that time no one has ever +again seen the little Rootmen.</p> + +<h3>The End.</h3> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 375px;"> +<a href="images/i047.jpg"><img src="images/i047tn.jpg" width="375" height="509" class="plain" alt="The End." title="The End." /></a> +</div> + +<hr /> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 375px;"> +<a href="images/i048.jpg"><img src="images/i048tn.jpg" width="375" height="488" class="plain" alt="Back cover" title="Back cover" /></a> +</div> + +<p><br /></p> + +<table border="2" class="tn" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="2" summary="Transcriber's Notes"> +<tr><td align='center'><h3>TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES</h3> + +<p>Inconsistencies in hyphenation have been retained; however, some mid-paragraph illustrations have been +moved to the beginning of the chapter.</p> + +<p>Click the illustrations to view larger versions.</p> +</td></tr> +</table> +<p><br /></p> + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The King of Root Valley, by R. 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