Capitolo 29
To every footstep Mimes it snickered to him:--
"The ring is mine! Finally the ring is mine! The whole world is now able
kneel to my feet!"
"When he had gone as far as him it challenged, he pointed out the rest of the way
to Siegfried.
"Only through here", he said. "And I will now return. When the dragon
See her it will be a terrible struggle! I will anxiously wait for him,
my Siegfried!"
But as Siegfried faded away from sight, him he rubbed together the black hands
and laughed:--
"Ah, will be the fortune for Mimes if Siegfried and the dragon kill each
other!"
THE SONG OF A WOOD-BIRD
When Siegfried had followed a small way, he stretched him on a
grassy tumult under of a tree to remain and to think.
Looking on through the branches to the clear sky, he cried:--
"I am free! Free! Anymore desire I go up again to that disgusting
Nibelung."
A bird in the tree started to sing his/her sweet wood-song.
"As you do, my small feathered friend!" Said Siegfried. "I am sure
thing you are singing it is a lot of dessert, but I cannot understand Your words."
Then Siegfried cut a reed near from, and putting him/it to his/her lips, tried to
answers of whistle to the notes of the small bird.
Its music didn't sound very as the song of a bird.
"I abdicate him/it, my small friend", he said, and it threw away the reed.
SIEGFRIED ED THE DRAGON
"I will steal a song from her on my silver horn", Siegfried told the bird.
"I often blow this small song. It is my call for a comrade. I crave for
one. Nobody has ever come better to me that the bears and foxes."
Noisily he blew his/her horn.
There was soon a great crackle in the brushwood. The enormous dragon
come, whipping his/her deadly tail, opening his/her red jaws, and extinguishing
smokes of poison.
"I have!" Laughed Siegfried. "That that an equitable comrade that I have enchanted from his
cavern! You wild beast, will teach me what fear you/he/she is?"
[The illustration: "I will Eat her", it Whistled The Dragon]
"I will eat her!" it whistled the dragon, while flashing to Siegfried and
thrusting out his/her long forked language.