The water-sprite sat on a stone at the river's edge, contentedly watching the awful spectacle.
"I might have known that the Water-Sprite wouldn't care to come to the meeting," he shouted.
Though the boatman had seemed courageous when speaking to the water-sprite, a secret uneasiness rankled in his heart.
The Water-sprite made the Peasant a present of all three axes, for having told the truth.
But when she looked on the face it was that of her dear child, whom she had yesterday freed from the power of the water-sprite.
