Page 174 - Adventures in shadow-land

closed them* and then the sweet breath of violets

floated around them, and all was still.

Eva sat up, and rubbed her eyes. Tall, wavy

grass grew all around her, violets, dandelions, and
buttercups bloomed through it, and her lap was

full of the pretty field-fiowers. Bees were buzzing
and collecting honey,— butterflies floated lazily

about on their black - and - golden wings,— the
brown beetle, with his long black feelers, swung

on the tall grass^stalk,—the crickets chirped,—
the snail had put out his horns,— the old mill­

pond glistened and shone in the long, slanting
rays of the setting sun,— there was her father’s
house,— everything was just as it used to be,

except the green toad, and that was a very im­
portant exception.

And while Eva was rubbing her eyes, and trying
to think where she could be. and what all this

meant, she heard the tea-bell ring, and as that
was very easy to understand, she got up and went

to the house. She peeped through the- window
before she went in, and everything seemed right