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ILKA ON THE HILL-TOP
AND OTHER STORIES
BY HJALMAR HJORTH BOYESEN
AUTHOR OF "GUNNAR," "FALCONBERG," ETC.
SECOND EDITION
1891
To DR. EGBERT GUERNSEY.
DEAR DOCTOR:
I can never expect adequately to repay you for your many valuable
services to me and mine. Nevertheless, in recognition of what you
have been to us, allow me to dedicate this unpretentious volume to
you. I shall have more respect for my little stories if in some way
they are associated with your name.
Very sincerely yours,
HJALMAR H. BOYESEN.
NEW YORK, January, 1881.
CONTENTS.
ILKA ON THE HILL-TOP
ANNUNCIATA
UNDER THE GLACIER
A KNIGHT OF DANNEBROG
MABEL AND I (_A Philosophical Fairy Tale_)
HOW MR. STORM MET HIS DESTINY
ILKA ON THE HILL-TOP
I.
Mr. Julius Hahn and his son Fritz were on a summer journey in the
Tyrol. They had started from Mayrhofen early in the afternoon, on two
meek-eyed, spiritless farm horses, and they intended to reach Ginzling
before night-fall.
There was a great blaze of splendor hidden somewhere behind the
western mountain-tops; broad bars of fiery light were climbing the
sky, and the chalets and the Alpine meadows shone in a soft crimson
illumination.
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