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close to him, it went the Spirits; and the small Sparkling gushed,
a gilded flower whose silvery music filled the air waving. "Dear
Thistle", says the bright Spirit what you so faithfully got tired,
to win for another, allows us of now to offer as a token of our love for you."
As she stopped, down through the air afloat ribbons came of beautiful
Air Spirits, bringing a bright bathrobe and them they also said their love
for the kind Fairy that had dwelt with them.
Then slightly on the breeze distant music came, while never growing nearbyer,
you cultivate on the waves that ripple they came to the Spirits of Water that sing in them,
boats of very-colored hulls; and as them they put theirs shining
you crown on the head of Thistle, noise encircled the flowers, and cheerfully it sang
the birds, while all the Fairies of Forest cried, with silvery bawls,
"Lily-bell and Thistledown! From very alive our King and Regina!"
"Does a history have him for us, the dear Violet-eye also?" says the Regina, as
Zephyr stopped. The small Elf called this way looked from among the
flower-leaves where she sat, and with an answered smile, "As me I was
garlands that plot in the field, I felt a primrose say this history
to his/her friend Gilded-Rod."
SMALL GEM.
In a great forest, tall on among the green branches, lived Bird
Brown-breast and his/her small consort bright-dagli eyes. Now They was many
happy; their house was made, the four blue eggs placed in the soft nest,
and the small wife still sat and patient on them, while her husband
sung, and it said his/her histories that enchant, and it brought his/her sweet berries
and few looks for worms.
Things easily followed, you cultivate one day her found in the nest a small
white egg, with a gilded ribbon around him.
"My friend", she cried, "comes and sees! Where it cans this excellent egg has
does come from? The my four are here, and this also; thing they think her about him?"
Her husband him shake seriously the head, and says, has not alarmed, my
with love; it is undoubtedly of the good Fairy that has given us this and us