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"They would think," she added, "that you were e with regard to us" So ent together

into the little garden which sloped doards a lower part of the

wood

Here, to reat pleasure, all was life and bustle There was still

light enough from the day to see a little; and the pale half- every aily decorated forroups,

asse stately on, running

about wildly, or sauntering hither or thither From the cups or bells of

tall flowers, as from balconies, sohter, now grave as owls; but even in their deepest

sole for the arrival of the next laugh

Some were launched on a little marshy stream at the bottom, in boats

chosen from the heaps of last year's leaves that lay about, curled and

withered These soon sank with theot

others Those who took fresh rose-leaves for their boats floated the

longest; but for these they had to fight; for the fairy of the rose-tree

co her clothes, and defended

her property bravely

"You can't wear half you've got," said some

"Never you mind; I don't choose you to have theood of the coreat

hollow leaf But the rose-fairy sprang after hi lady), knocked hireat red leaf But in the meantime twenty had

hurried off in different directions with others just as good; and the

little creature sat down and cried, and then, in a pet, sent a perfect