Still, the dwarf did not feel quite sure that all was right, and asked what the magician wanted with a bird- catcher.

The dwarf (an adult too, with beard beginning to sprout) asked, "Why do you cut off the tuft?"

While the dwarves asked questions and Ripple tried to explain, he edged away from the others.

'And what gift would a dwarf ask of Elves?'

The dwarf asked, "What went wrong this time?"

The dwarf was amazed by the presentation, and asks Felix to handover the cannon.

When the youngest son went, the dwarf asked where he was going, and he told him.

But on Pryan, the dwarves asked nothing more than to be let alone, the humans fought each other, and the elves supplied them.

"No dwarf can ask for more than that."

Finally the yellow-bearded dwarf, Balkis, asked, "Is it that we might know your clan?"