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Osa, the goose-girl, stood silent a long while, and pondered
over the find.  At last she said, slowly and thoughtfully:  “Do
you remember, little Mats, that when we went past Oevid
Cloister, we heard that the folks in a farmyard had seen an elf
who was dressed in leather breeches, and had wooden shoes on his
feet, like any other working man?  And do you recollect when we
came to Vittskoevle, a girl told us that she had seen a Goa-
Nisse with wooden shoes, who flew away on the back of a goose? 
And when we ourselves came home to our cabin, little Mats, we
saw a goblin who was dressed in the same way, and who also
straddled the back of a goose—­and flew away.  Maybe it was the
same one who rode along on his goose up here in the air and
dropped his wooden shoe.”  “Yes, it must have been,” said little
Mats.  They turned the wooden shoe about and examined it
carefully—­for it isn’t every day that one happens across a Goa-
Nisse’s wooden shoe on the highway