The greedy king set out in all haste, and when he came to the river he beckoned to the ferryman to put him across.
Then said he 'ha, ha, that is certainly my little cousin, who died only a few days ago, and he beckoned with his finger, and cried 'come, little cousin, come.
The gas-lamps saw her, and gleamed and beckoned to her.
She drew her knife, cut through the bonds which confined his hands and feet, and beckoned to him to follow her.
She nodded and beckoned to him, and then sang the little verses she had herself composed and set to him,— "How oft my memory turns to thee, My own Hjalmar, ever dear!
" Then the fairy beckoned to him, and said in sweet accents, "Come with me, come with me.
She beckoned to them, and then they recognized her, and told her how she had grieved them.
