Page 139 - Adventures in shadow-land

I don’ t think that I ever saw you before. But
that don’ t matter. You will have to work out-of­

doors, and if you do your work properly, at the
end of the week you may ask for your owu wages.

But if you don’t work well, I will gtve you no­
thing, but I will turn you into a frog, and put you

on a toad-stool, as I have done with a great many
before you,”
Eva thought to herself that perhaps the Frog

never before had a servant like herself, so she
told her that she was still willing to hire herself.

Then the Frog told the jackdaw to take the new
servant out and tell her what she was to do.

So the jackdaw hopped out, and Eva followed
him, And when he told her what her work for

that week was to be, she thought it was very
funny work. And then he told her she might
do as she pleased for the rest of that day, but the

next morning she must go to work. And Eva
amused herself by looking everywhere for Aster,

But' he was not to De seen. Only, just over the
back-door of the hut, there hung a little wire

cage, and in it there sat a little green bird, which
screamed whenever the jackdaw or the Frog even
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