Chapter 24
THE FROGS' BIRTHDAY-TREAT. And so it came to pass that, just a week after the day when my Fairy-friends first appeared as Children, I found myself taking a farewell-stroll through the wood, in the hope of meeting them once more. I had but to stretch myself on the smooth turf, and the 'eerie' feeling was on me in a moment. "Put oor ear welly low down," said Bruno, "and I'll tell oo a secret! It's the Frogs' Birthday-Treat--and we've lost the Baby!" "What Baby?" I said, quite bewildered by this complicated piece of news. "The Queen's Baby, a course!" said Bruno. "Titania's Baby. And we's welly sorry. Sylvie, she's--oh so sorry!" "How sorry is she?" I asked, mischievously. "Three-quarters of a yard," Bruno replied with perfect solemnity. "And I'm a little sorry too," he added, sh
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