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jEva’s First Adventure. 17
s
ing in his cradle: the changing mountain forms

seemed strange no longer; she forgot to wonder
at the singular earth-light, and at the absence of

the sun} and noticing for the first time that she
was standing in a little path which ran along the
pond, and then followed the course of the little

brook, whose waters seemed singing the words,
“ Follow, follow me iM Eva wondered no longer,

but first stooping to pick up a little stick, in shape
like a boy's cane, with a knob at one end, just

like a roughly carved head, and which was1 lying
just at her feet, she walked along the little pathj

which seemed made expressly for her to walk in.
She walked on and on, as she thought, for

hours, yet there came neither sunset nor moon-
rise, and there were no stars in the sky, which

seemed nearer the earth than she had ever seen it
before. -There were clouds, to be sure, of shapes
as strange as those of the rnountains, which passed

and repassed each other, although there was no
wind to move them. Everything was silent.

Even the trees, swaying, as they did, to and fro,
moved noiselessly; the only sound, save Eva’s

light steps, which fcrpke the stillness was the