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to look upon: groups of sweet child figures at
play, or fair faces which smiled 011 the two as

they passed.

Flowers, too, more brilliant and beautiful in
hue than any they had yet found, bloomed
wherever they looked. Not the pale, scentless

blossoms they had seen before, but flowers which
greeted them with rich perfume, and whose bells

and chalice-likc cups, touched lightly by the dress
of the children as they passed, iang forth in

bright and joyous melody. In the bells of the
flowers sat and swung tiny and beautiful shapes,

which Aster told Eva were the Flower Fairies,
the gentlest of the race, whose sole duty was to

carry perfume to, and color the flowers. Some
bathed in the dewdrops 011 the leaves, others

rode,' seated on beautiful butterflies, but all
seemed gay and happy.

The light shed by the growing crescent of the
moon seemed brighter; the soft music which

hailed her coming more joyous and triumphant;
the clouds, reflecting the moon’s light, wore a
rich, rosy tint, reminding Eva of the light in the

Valley of R est; the grass was green, and soft as