CHAPTER Il
HURLY-BURLY

HE nurse stood. still until this
terrible enemy was gone, and said
not another word until she was
quite out of sight. There was a

reason for this, and also for her not having

replied to the fairy’s last words. This
reason must now be disclosed. When the
children had all set off running to their
nurse, upon the first look of the old fairy,
there was one little fellow who had been
close to the nurse-all the time, and had
therefore no distance to run. He was one
of the youngest of the boys, and, as he was
always the foremost in any mischief that
was going on in the family, and was famous