Page 117 - Adventures in shadow-land

take one of us, lie would not have touched us, but

would have pecked a hole in the boat, and she
would have sunk to the bottom of the brook. We

should have had to leave j-ou, and then you never
could have reached the Enchanted River/'
tt Where is the Enchanted R iver?" Eva asked

the trout.
He answered, “ It runs through Shadow-Land/'

t( And where are we?”
“ We are on the Erook of Mists, which empties

into the Enchanted River. You came out of
Shadow-Land when you entered the Yalley of

Rest/ 1
Then the boat went on quietly again. Only

for a time, however, and presently Eva heard a
voice, in a squeaky tone, calling to her;

“ Stop, little girt, and take me in,”
And there, apparently crawling along the sur­
face of the water, was a queer little dwarf. He

had a large headt with round, green eyes; a fat,

round body; and he was dressed in a yellow coat
with scarlet facings, and his legs were so long
and thin that they bent under him as he walked.

And when he came up to the boat and laid his