The "C&C Where are We?...Lost?" Series is a 20 cache series
that will be placed all over the Westren half of Nova Scotia.Once
again we will take geocachers to places they haven't been before.
Some are the beginings of trails that you may know but haven't gone
farther.
There was once a poor servant-girl who was industrious and
cleanly and swept the house every day, and emptied her sweepings on
the great heap in front of the door. One morning when she was just
going back to her work, she found a letter on this heap, and as she
could not read, she put her broom in the corner, and took the
letter to her employers, and behold it was an invitation from the
elves, who asked the girl to hold a child for them at its
christening. The girl did not know what to do, but, at length,
after much persuasion, and as they told her that it was not right
to refuse an invitation of this kind, she consented.
Then three elves came and conducted her to a hollow mountain,
where the little folks lived. Everything there was small, but more
elegant and beautiful than can be described. The baby's mother lay
in a bed of black ebony ornamented with pearls, the covers were
embroidered with gold, the cradle was of ivory, the bath-tub of
gold. The girl stood as godmother, and then wanted to go home
again, but the little elves urgently entreated her to stay three
days with them. So she stayed, and passed the time in pleasure and
gaiety, and the little folks did all they could to make her happy.
At last she set out on her way home. But first they filled her
pockets quite full of money, and then they led her out of the
mountain again.
When she got home, she wanted to to begin her work, and took the
broom, which was still standing in the corner, in her hand and
began to sweep. Then some strangers came out of the house, who
asked her who she was, and what business she had there. And she had
not, as she thought, been three days with the little men in the
mountains, but seven years, and in the meantime her former masters
had died.
~by the Brothers Grimm
Don't let the name fool you they aren't all far hikes....just
different areas.