Page 18 - Adventures in shadow-land

C H A P T E R II.

E V A 'S FIR ST ADVENTURE.

IOW long she lay there asleep the child

did not know. It might only have been
for a few minutes; it might have been

for hours, Yet, when she did awake, and think
it was time for her to go home, she did not under­
stand where she could be. The place seemed the

same, yet not the same,— as though some wonder­

ful change had come over it during her sleep.
There was the pond, to he sure, but was it the
same pond ? Tall trees grew round it, yet their

branches were bare and leafless. A little brook
ran into the pond, which she was sure that she

never had seen there before. Was she still asleep?
No. She was- wide awake. She sprang to her

feet and looked around. The green toad was
gone, so was the moon - face; her father’s house