Page 103 - Adventures in shadow-land

brook than it had been the day before; and that,
floating on the water, which was here a5 smooth

and still as glass, there were a great many pure

white lilies, and that every now and then a
speckled trout would jump from the water, and
send a shower of crystal drops to sparkle on the

green leaves around the white lilies.

"T h ere lies your w ay/' the children saidf
pointing to the cavern and the brook. ft But
we must give you the means of going down the

brook to the place where it meets the Enchanted

River. Beyond that we cannot help you. We
can only send you, in our boat, down the
brook.”

At these words Eva looked up in great sur­
prise, for no boat was to be seen, and she could

not imagine where one was to come from. Buf
then one of the children clapped her hands, and,

as she did so, a lily-bud slowly rose from the
w
water, and then opened, till it was larger and

whiter than any of the other lilies. And then,
while all looked on in silence, the pure white

leaves of the lily fell into the water and melted
away in it like snow; and then another waved