Arne laughed, too. You certainly wouldn’t want to scare away _Julenissen_, the little elf with the pointed red cap and little red suit. He was supposed to live in the attic and bring special good luck at Christmas time, particularly if one always remembered to set out his bowl of milk and give him his Christmas rice porridge. Arne had never actually seen _Julenissen_, but he knew someone in the family always saw to that milk and the porridge.