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u I've not got him /' the old woman said*
<(I know," Eva replied; ffbut 1 was told that

you might be able to tell me where he was."
“ Hum !” the Toad-Woman said. " You have,

then, come down the Enchanted River, and seen
my sister, the Mist-Woman, But even that won't

help you, though she did }et you pass her, and
though the stones did not trouble you. I do

know where Aster is, but I promised my cousin
that I would only tell it to the person who would

bring me back the two feathers that her servant
the jackdaw stole out of my fan.”
She held up her fan as she said this, and Eva

saw that two feathers out of it were gone, And

then the child remembered the two feathers
which the jackdaw had dropped in the boat, and
which, as the trout had advised her, she had

brought with her from the brook. So she showed
them to the woman, and asked her if these were

not the same ones which she had lost And the
Toad-Woman was very much astonished, for they

were the very feathers she had been talking about*
“ Take a seat," she said to Eva, “ and tplj me

how you got them.1'