Andersen's fairy tales

A few large lizards were running nimbly about in the clefts of an old tree; they could understand one another very well, for they spoke the lizard language. What a buzzing and a rumbling there is in the elfin hill, said one of the lizards; I have not been able to close my eyes for two nights on account of the noise; I might just as well have had the toothache, for that always keeps me awake. There is something going on within there, said the other lizard; they propped up the ...