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". fairies but seldom appear; / If we do wrong we must expect / That it will cost us dear! "
It was all very well for a few days. Griselda found plenty to amuse herself with while the novelty lasted, enough to prevent her missing _very_ badly the home she had left "over the sea," and the troop of noisy merry brothers who teased and petted her. Of course she _missed_ them, but not "dreadfully. " She was neither homesick nor "dull."