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In theI awoke refreshed, after a profound and dreah, when I looked out of the , shining over a wide,

undulating, cultivated country Various garden-vegetables were growing

beneath ht The

dew-drops were sparkling their busiest; the cows in a near-by field were

eating as if they had not been at it all day yesterday; theat their work as they passed to and fro between the out-houses:

I did not believe in Fairy Land I went down, and found the family

already at breakfast But before I entered the rooirl cah she wanted

to say so to me I stooped towards her; she put her arms round my

neck, and her mouth toabout the house all night"

"No whispering behind doors!" cried the farether

"Well, how have you slept? No bogies, eh?"

"Not one, thank you; I slept uncolad to hear it Come and breakfast"

After breakfast, the farmer and his son went out; and I was left alone

with the hter

"When I looked out of thethis ," I said, "I felt almost