Heigh Ho; The Story
Authors Note: This is a
short tale on anything gold and I selected this one.
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We dig dig dig dig
dig dig dig in our mine the whole day through
To dig dig dig dig
dig dig dig is what we really like to do
It ain't no trick
to get rich quick
If you dig dig dig
with a shovel or a pick
In a mine! In a
mine! In a mine! In a mine!
Where a million diamonds
shine!
We dig dig dig dig
dig dig dig from early morn till night
We dig dig dig dig
dig dig dig up everything in sight
We dig up diamonds
by the score
A thousand rubies,
sometimes more
But we don't know
what we dig 'em for
We dig dig dig a-dig
dig
Heigh-ho, Heigh-ho
Heigh-ho, Heigh-ho Heigh-ho
( Song sang by the
dwarfs on Snow White. )
Then my sound
drowned into silence as I trudged my solitary walk to the mine again. It was
not the same when we used to walk with seven in the column but now only I walk
alone. Even the mine is getting old as its veins dry up with the god content and
we are digging more of the earth than of gold. But I am a dwarf and if I am not
digging up gold, I would be fighting goblins and ogres. But they too are gone
slain by man or gods as they are called.
I reached the
entrance to the mine and wondered if I would walk or ride the iron carts as the
younger ones used to do. I did when I was their age when we would hop onto it
and be whizzed down the tunnels at breakneck speed to stopped just before we
hit the end. But I am past my two hundred age of years and by heck, I would do
this again only when I am a wreck. I climbed into the cart and pushed off with
the levels. Soon I find myself swooping down the tunnels at breakneck speed but
in my current perception, it was a suicidal move. I crawled into the cart and
avoid looking over the top while it was at a dizzy speed.
I prayed to the
Gods to have mercy on my soul and please do not serve me penance on the last day
of my life. But soon I find myself flying in the air as the cart crashed into
that tunnel wall on its final approach. I don't which broke more; my bones or
the stones on the wall, but I ended up in a large cavern. It's huge and there
is a small mound which I could stand up to see the whole cavern. There is
something on the walls but without light, I could not make it out. I wanted to
crawl out of the cavern to get the lantern but the sound of a whimpering girl
stopped me. I seek out the source of the whimpering and locate the girl.
"Who are you
and how did you come to be in this dim-lit cavern?" I reached out with my
hand to assist the girl who was sitting on the floor. She took my hand and
stood up, now towering over me at twice my height.
"Thank you,
dwarf. I have been imprisoned here for ages and you have rescued me. I must
thank you for giving me my freedom. What would you wished for most in your
life?" The girl who stands before me bends forth to listen to my wish.
"I am a dwarf
and my greatest desire is gold, but my heart tells me above it is my need to
have friends. Would you be mine so that I won't feel lonely anymore?" I
longed for companionship as there are all gone and I am all alone. What is gold
if I have no one to share it with. If I were to die one day, the gold would be
left behind as I leave this physical world.
"Dwarf, your
noble intentions are mine to be fulfilled." The girl reached up with her
hands to the skies and she spread them apart to the sides. When she does that,
from her back the growth of golden feathers starts to spread from a single one
to a cluster of them. As her feathers grew, she also grow in height to reach
four times my height, and then her feathers grew ever longer and higher. When she
has grown to her size, she began to radiate a golden aura on her body which soon
spread to the feathers that winged up like that of the eagle. But she is not of
an eagle but a blazing golden radiance phoenix bursting with energy and power.
Her golden
radiance did not stop at her but spread across the cavern to show as veins of
gold in its wall. The golden radiance reflects on the gold elements and light
up the cavern.
"Dwarf, your
desire is as shown, but the need would come before your desire." The
phoenix points to the hole in which I had crawled through, a column of dwarfs
came marching in with their picks and shovels. They numbered not five or ten
but of many as they come in singing the song I know so well.
We dig dig dig dig
dig dig dig in our mine the whole day through
To dig dig dig dig
dig dig dig is what we like to do
It ain't no trick
to get rich quick
If you dig dig dig
with a shovel or a pick
In a mine! In a
mine! In a mine! In a mine!
Where a million
diamonds shine!
We dig dig dig dig
dig dig dig from early morn till night
We dig dig dig dig
dig dig dig up everything in sight
We dig up diamonds
by the score
A thousand rubies,
sometimes more
But we don't know
what we dig 'em for
We dig dig dig
a-dig dig
Heigh-ho, Heigh-ho
Heigh-ho, Heigh-ho Heigh-ho
I was not alone
for the rest of my life as I am now the leader of a dwarf clan who inhabits in
these tunnels while we all dig the gold veins for more of what we desired.
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