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The children had great fun sliding down the hay-hill, but they found no more eggs. They played at this for some time, and then Charlie Star called: "Let's go out and climb trees!" "Girls can't climb trees," objected Sadie. "Some girls can," answered Charlie. "I have a girl cousin, and she can climb a tree as good as I can. But she lives in the country," he went on.
Bunny and Sue could climb to the top, or high place of the hay, and slide down, for it was quite slippery. Up they climbed, and down they slid, quite fast. They had done this a number of times, when finally Sue said: "Oh, Bunny, I'm going to slide down in a new place!" She went over to one side of the hay-hill, and down she slid. And then something funny happened.
"It was a fairy, and come from Elf-land, it said; and its errand was to make me happy: I must go with it out of the common world to a lonely place such as the moon, for instance and it nodded its head towards her horn, rising over Hay-hill: it told me of the alabaster cave and silver vale where we might live. I said I should like to go; but reminded it, as you did me, that I had no wings to fly.
There was a sort of crackling sound, and Sue called out: "Oh, Bunny! Bunny! I've found the hen's nest, and I'm right in it!" Bunny Brown quickly slid down on his side of the hay-hill. He could see his sister Sue, who was sitting in a little hollow place. "What what's the matter?" Bunny asked, for Sue had a funny look on her face. "I found Mrs.
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