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Title: The Wonderful Adventures of Nils

Author: Selma Lagerloef

Release Date: February 4, 2004 [EBook #10935]

Language: English

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THE WONDERFUL ADVENTURES of NILS

by

SELMA LAGERLOeF

TRANSLATED FROM THE SWEDISH
BY VELMA SWANSTON HOWARD

CONTENTS

The Boy

Akka from Kebnekaise

The Wonderful Journey of Nils

Glimminge Castle

The Great Crane Dance on Kullaberg

In Rainy Weather

The Stairway with the Three Steps

By Ronneby River

Karlskrona

The Trip to Oeland

Oeland's Southern Point

The Big Butterfly

Little Karl's Island

Two Cities

The Legend of Smaland

The Crows

The Old Peasant Woman

From Taberg to Huskvarna

The Big Bird Lake

Ulvasa-Lady

The Homespun Cloth

The Story of Karr and Grayskin

The Wind Witch

The Breaking Up of the Ice

Thumbietot and the Bears

The Flood

Dunfin

Stockholm

Gorgo the Eagle

On Over Gaestrikland

A Day in Haelsingland

In Medelpad

A Morning in Angermanland

Westbottom and Lapland

Osa, the Goose Girl, and Little Mats

With the Laplanders

Homeward Bound

Legends from Haerjedalen

Vermland and Dalsland

The Treasure on the Island

The Journey to Vemminghoeg

Home at Last

The Parting with the Wild Geese

_Some of the purely geographical matter in the Swedish original of the
"Further Adventures of Nils" has been eliminated from the English
version.

The author has rendered valuable assistance in cutting certain chapters
and abridging others. Also, with the author's approval, cuts have been
made where the descriptive matter was merely of local interest.

But the story itself is intact.

V.S.H_.

THE BOY

THE ELF

_Sunday, March twentieth_.

Once there was a boy. He was--let us say--something like fourteen years
old; long and loose-jointed and towheaded. He wasn't good f