There passed a child of four, a small girl on a footpath over the fields, going home in the evening to Erl. They looked at each other with round eyes." Hullo, " said the child." Hullo, child of men, " said the troll.. "What are you?" said the child." A troll of Elfland, " answered the troll. "So I thought, " said the child." Where are you going, child of men?" the troll asked." To the houses, " the child replied." We don't want to go there, " said the troll." N-no, " said the child." Come to Elfland, " the troll said. The child thought for a while. Other children had gone, and the elves always sent a changeling in their place, so that nobody quite missed them and nobody really knew. She thought awhile of the wonder and wildness of Elfland, and then of her own house." N-no, " said the child." Why not?" said the troll." Mother made a jam roll this morning, " said the child. And she walked on gravely home. Had it not been for that chance jam roll she had gone to Elfland."Jam! " said the troll contemptuously and thought of the tarns of Elfland, the great lily-leaves lying flat upon their solemn waters, the huge blue lilies towering into the elf-light above the green deep tarns: for jam this child had forsaken them!. Lord Dunsany
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