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166 Make-Believe

speech seemed to him the only wise thing
he had ever heard. So the people never
caught a sight of him, and when they
passed by the locked gate they did not
guess that he was within.

“Tf you had lived in Fairyland, or come
on the piskies’ gardens that grow on the
cliffs, but may only be seen at night, you
would be able to guess something of what
that garden was like when the man had
‘been working fora year or two. I don’t
-know how it was, but somehow there was
always sunlight there (or so it seemed),
‘even when the world outside was cold, and
wet, and miserable, and had not a flower
in it. And, in the hot summer months,
when the fields were parched, and the way-
side blooms all slack and wilted, there were
dews in the morning and dews at night, so
that the flowers over which the gardener
was king never felt weary of the sunshine,
but were always fresh as the others only
are at dawn.

“They were the loveliest flowers that