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him; and one that them called the small Sparkling (for his/her crown and bathrobe
shone with the brightest diamonds), says: "You will have to work
for us, first you can win a gift to show the good Fairies; You see
those gilded bells that make such music, as do we wave them to us before and back?
We worked from very and firm first they was defeated, and you can win one of
those, if you will make the assignment that we give him for us."
And it said Thistle, "Any assignment will be too much hard for me to do for dear
The cause of Lily-bell."
Then they conducted him/it to them to a strange place, dark, power on above with torches;
where it gathers of Spirits it busily flew before and back, among stones of damp, and
through dark galleries that have conducted down far in the earth. "That that ago
them here?" Asked thistle.
"I will say", small answered Sparkling, "for me I worked here once
me. Some of them look above of the flower-roots, and it holds them
fresh and strong; others gather the clear drops from which you/they drip the
stones of damp, and it forms a little spring that, never growing greater,
you increase to the light above of, and it gushes out ahead in of the green field or
solitary forest; where the wild-birds come to drink, and wood-flowers
spreads their thirsty leaves on the clear, so that fresh one as them they go
dancing away, bringing wherever joy and their freshness go. Others
you mould the bright jewels in the beautiful forms, and does the good-fortune
penny that we give to mortals that we love. And here you have to get tired himself/herself/themselves
you cultivate the gilded flower it is defeated."
Then Thistle went among the Spirits, and it connected in their assignments;
him him taken care of the flower-roots, gathered the water-drops, and it formed the
penny of good-fortune. Long and firm he worked, and it was often sad and
tired, it often tried from discourteous and selfish thoughts; but he thought
of Lily-bell, and it strove him to be kind and loving as she had been; and
soon the Spirits learned to love the patient Fairy that his had departed