Lom veads Archie's Story. 22

 

And we heard them distinctly, though we
didn’t see them. And we'll make some more,
and come out again and watch.”

Ihe moon shone kindly on them as they
walked along, so that they soon lost all their
shyness of her, and wondered how it was
they were ever afraid. They reached home
just as the clock struck one, and settled the
very next day, as soon as their lessons were
done, to build some more ships, even better
and prettier, and to go out and watch again
to see the fairies get in and sail down the
river to the sea. But, somehow, though they
often heard them moving, they never actually
saw the fairies.