Page 93 - Adventures in shadow-land

with prominent black eyes, would threaten to
swallow him; and then the boy would cry, and

call for Eva to come and help him,
Then the frog would say:

<f Why did you let me tear your coat?”
And the faces would ask :

“ Why did you lose your flower?”

And then the spider would say:
“ Why did you creep into the rock?”
And to all this Aster would only answer with

the cry, “ Eva! E va! help m e!”

Then one of the faces said, angrily:
f'We shall punish you here until three things

are done7 because through three things you fell
into our power. First/ Eva must find your coat.

Second. She must get the piece to mend it with.
Third. She must find you. But you need not call

her, because she cannot hear you; for she is in
the Valley of Rest with the Happy Children, who

are the Dawn Fairies, and she has forgotten you.
And there are many dangers to pass in Shadow-

Land before, she can come to you; and she will

not come, unless she hears you call.”
Then they would beat him again; and Aster