Page 12 - Adventures in shadow-land

EVA’S ADVENTURES

IN SHADOW-LAND.

C H A P T E R I.

WHAT EVA SAW hV THE POND.

HE had been reading fairy-tales, after her
lessons were done, all the morning; and

1 now that dinner was over, her father gone
to his office, the baby asleep, and her mother sit­

ting quietly sewing in the cool parlor, Eva thought
that she would go down across the field to the old
mill-pond; and sit in the grass, and make a fairy­

tale for herself.
There was nothing that Eva liked better than to

go and sit in the tall grass; grass so tall that when
the child, in her white dress, looped on her plump

white shoulders with blue ribbons, her bright
golden curls brushed back from her fair brow, and