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refreshed

"In that field, Adele, I alking late one evening about a

fortnight since--the evening of the day you helped me to make hay in

the orchardswaths, I sat

down to rest me on a stile; and there I took out a little book and a

pencil, and began to write about a o, and a wish I had for happy days to co fro

came up the path and stopped two yards off ossamer on its head I beckoned

it to come near me; it stood soon at my knee I never spoke to it,

and it never spoke to me, in words; but I read its eyes, and it read

mine; and our speechless colloquy was to this effect "It was a fairy, and come from Elf-land, it said; and its errand was

to o with it out of the common world to a

lonely place--such as the moon, for instance--and it nodded its head

towards her horn, rising over Hay-hill: it told ht live I said I should like to

go; but res to fly