![]() ![]() In the excellent translation, the rather old-fashioned story moves along with brisk good humor. Berg, a Swedish political cartoonist who was Prysen's original illustrator, depicts the doughty heroine looking appropriately like a somewhat frazzled pepperpot and also provides authentic details of the northern landscape. She finally decides to make do with snow, but she suddenly shrinks and falls into her pail, which rolls downhill and gets hooked on the moose's antler-thus giving him a well-deserved fright. ![]() ![]() Undaunted, she sets out again with a pole, and then with a gun, all to no avail-the baleful moose still hovers. Pepperpot tries to break the ice in another one nearby, but she's chased by a belligerent moose. Pepperpot to the Rescue, 1963) this amusing additional tale is a good sample of their Scandinavian flavor. The little old lady who shrinks ``to the size of a teaspoon'' at unexpected moments has appeared in several story collections (Mrs. ![]()
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