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"Is it a good big one?"

"Indeed, yes"

The head appeared over the edge of the rock, inspected hiravely for

a moment, and ithdrawn

"Then it is accepted," said the voice

"Thank you!" he replied sincerely "And now are you going to let down

your rope ladder, or whatever it is? I really want to talk to you"

"You are so persistent!" cried the petulant voice, "and so foolish! It

is like a s!"

He suddenly felt the truth of this One can not talk every day to a sun

fairy, and the experience can never be repeated He settled back on the

rock

"Pardon ain "Rope ladders, indeed, to one

who has but to close her eyes and she finds herself on a downy cloud

near the sun My mortality blinded me!"

"Now you are a nice boy," she approved more contentedly, "and as a

reward you reed; and then, with instinctive tact, "What do you

see up there?"

He could hear her clap her hands with delight, and he felt glad that he

had followed his impulse to ask just this question instead of one more

personal and an "I see pines,in the breeze Did you ever see trees from on