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great effect upon little Hurly-Burly, and made
him doubly careful on his journey. Almost
immediately after he had seen the hare, he
heard the noise as of falling water, and at
once the thought came into his mind that he
might be approaching the house of the Fairy
of the Falls, of whom the hedgehog had
spoken. So he pressed boldly on, and
presently perceived that he was coming to
an open glade in the forest, from which the
trees fell back on either side, and huge
boulders of rock lay embedded in the green
grass which grew all over the glade. These
rocks were numeyous, and were piled one
upon the other, just as if some giants had
had the fancy to build up rockwork, and had
done it after the careless fashion of giants,
casting the great masses of rock down, here
and there, just as they came to hand, and
so creating a kind of rocky hill on a natural
slope of ground. Over the top of this hill,
which was of considerable height, the boy
saw a great volume of water bursting down
with mighty force, dashing itself upon the
lower rocks, hurling its foam in all directions,
and then forcing its way through the green
grass into a narrow, rapid channel, down