Page 138 - Adventures in shadow-land

hopped away just as fast as lie could g o ; and
then one of the toad-stools, with the web attached

to it, swung open as if it had been on a hinge,
so that Eva could enter the inclosure.

She went up to the door of the hut and
knocked. And the third time that she knocked

the door was opened by a large jackdaw, which

Eva immediately recognized as the same bird
which she had seen on the brook, dressed in the
peacock feathers which he had stolen from the

Toad-Woman’s fan; but although she knew him

in a moment, he evidently did not know her, she
was so very muddy, and so unlike her own self. In
the hut, on a toad-stool, which served as a chair,

sat the same Green Frog, with a little shawl over

her shoulders, she had seen before, which had
tried to carry Aster off, and had torn, his coat;
and it was with some little hesitation that Eva

went up to her, and curtsied to her. And then,

as she had been told, she asked the Frog if she
needed a servant.

The Green Frog inspected her from head to
foot,

“ You are pretty dirty,” she said to Eva, “ and