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"Children should not leave about / Anything that's small and bright; / Lest the fairies spy it out, / And fly off with it at night. " / _Poems written for a child._
There was no buzzy sound in Mrs. White's garden this afternoon. It was far too early in the year for that, indeed it was beginning to feel quite chilly and cold, as the afternoons often do of fine days in early spring, and by the time Floss and Carrots had eaten their cake, and examined all the rose bushes to see if they could find any buds, and wished it were summer, so that there would be some strawberries hiding under the glossy green leaves, they began to wonder why nurse was so long -- and to feel rather cold and tired of waiting.