102 Fairy Tales

enough. Do go, oh, do/ I declare, if I were
to see Agrippa coming round the corner, I
Should faint.”

It made Dick rather angry to hear Agrippa
spoken of in this way, but before he could
say anything a small voice close by struck
in. It belonged to one of the flower elves
whom Dick knew very well and liked
because he was always ready to do a
good turn to the others. Now he dropped
down from a wild briar rose where he
had been swinging among the pink blos-
soms.

“Tf you were wise, Mrs. Mouse,” he re-
marked, “you would send post haste for
Agrippa. It isn’t he you have to fear, but
some one much more dangerous.”

“Who, who?” gasped the mouse, waving
her paws wildly. ‘“ Not—don’t tell me it’s
the hawk, for I can’t bear it!”

“I thought I caught a glimpse of him
just now through the leaves,” began the elf,
and hardly had he said the words when there
was a shrill crying and chirping overhead ;