Page 127 - Adventures in shadow-land

through the clcar water, though she could not tell
where she ever had heard of them. An old lamp,

rusty and cracked* she knew was Aladdin’s won­
derful lamp; near it lay Cinderella’s little glass

slippers j not far off was Blue Beard’s key; and
the next thing that she saw was Jack’s famous
bean-stalk. Seeing these things, and many more,

she began to wonder if the flower which Aster
had lost could possibly be among them, or if the

piece of his coat was there; when she suddenly
remembered that she had seen the latter in the

possession of the Green Frog.
On she went, meeting no one and with no

hindrance in her way. Then she saw a tiny
worm, writhing, as if in pain, and trying to
crawl away from a twig which lay on it and

seemed to hold it. And pitying the feeble creat'

ure, even more helpless than she wasf Eva stooped
and took, it from under the twig, and laid it gently
down again. The twig immediately put forth

many legs and ran away, and the worm crept into
a hole near by. And a few minutes later Eva

saw an old woman sitting in the water and warm­
ing her hands over a fire built upon a stone, and
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