Page 148 - Adventures in shadow-land

“ Who told you anything about the little green

bird,” the Frog went on. “ He won’t sing for
you, and you had better let me give you a purse

full of gold."
But no, Eva would take nothing but the bird,

and at last the Frog told her to go and take him,
if she could find him. And then she went Into

the hut, grumbling and talking to herself.
Eva went to the back of the house to look for

the little green bird. When she got there she
did not know what to do, for there were at least
fifty cages there, and in each cage was a little

green bird, and cages and birds were all exactly
alike,— there was no telling them apart,—and

which the one she wanted could be Eva did not
know. And if she chose the wrong one, all her

work would be lost.
Yet, look as she might, she could not tell

which was the right one. Then there was a flutter
of wings in the air, and then she felt something

pull her dress, and there at her feet was a beauti­
ful bird, holding her dress in its beak, and it led

her round and round the cages, and every cage
that her dress touched melted away and disap­