lad to hear more and more, and for ever. But at last, as all was still, he opened his eyes and looked around for his dear gues

w itself head over heels into the river, just as if the great massy rock out of wh

, one over another; till at last, that the sweet Child might not be grieved, a drop of water stopped behind a piece of rock. From her the Chi

should reach the stars, and become one of them. But I had not ascended far, when the sunbeam shook me off, and in spite of all I could say or do, let me fall into a dark cloud. And soon a flash of fire darted through the cloud, and now I thought I must surely die; but the whole cloud laid itself down softly upon the top of a mountain, and so I escaped with my fright, and a black eye. Now I thought I should remain hidden, when all on a sudden I slipped over a round pebble, fell from one stone to another, down into the depths of the mo

p of water by her hair and sucked her in, that she might become a flowe