Page 13 - Adventures in shadow-land

her blue eyes sparkling, sat down in it, you could

not see her until you were near her, and then it
was just as if you had found a picture of a little

girl in a frame, or rather a nest of soft, green grass,
AH through this tall, wavy grass, down to the

very edge of the pond, grew many flowers,—
violets; and buttercups, and dandelions, like little

golden suns. And as Eva sat there in the grass,
she filled her lap with the purple and yellow
flowers; and all around her the bees buzzed as

though they wished to light upon the flowers in
her lap; on which, at last,— so quietly did she sit,

— two black-and-golden butterflies alighted; while
a great brown beetle, with long black feelers,

climbed up a tall grass-stalk in front of her, which,
bending slightly under his weight, swung to and

fro in the gentle breeze which barely stirred Eva’s
golden curls; and the field-ciickels chirped, and

even a snail put his horns out of his shell to look
at the little girt, sitting so quietly in the grass

among the flowers, for Eva was gentle, and neither
bee, nor butterfly, beetle, cricket^ or snail were
afraid of her. And this is what Eva called mak­

ing a fairy-tale for herself-