94 Make-Beleve

Kye Z

 

hedge. There were full a hundred fairies,
none of them bigger than the daisies, and
all most beautifully dressed. They were
dancing gaily. Now, the farmer wanted
a fairy, and he was not a kind man, so
he picked up a stone and flung it at the
dancers. Ina moment they had all gone,
except one poor little chap who lay on the
grass in a dead faint. The farmer had
broken his leg with the stone.

“Tt was late, and the farmer had to
be up early the next morning. He knew
that no one was likely to be passing in the
meantime, so he just went home to bed,
and almost before daylight he went down
to fetch the fairy.”

“Did he find it?” asked Doris. ‘And