r. Said I not they were seldom visited?
Yet their enchantment is still there for happy generations unborn. The
children and the fields and the birds we have always with us. I would
that for every child there might be the fields, to make long after a
dream of green beauty, though the world has grown arid. Because the
dream seems so sweet to me I have gossiped of it, but have not named
half its delicate delights, nor some of the great ones: as the romps
in the hay fields, the voyage of discovery after hens' nests, the
mysteries of that double hedge that is the orchard boundary, and the
hidden places in gnarled boughs, where you perched among the secrets
of the birds and the leaves, and saw the crescent moon through a
tender veil of enchantment while yet the orange of the sunset was in
the west.

THE END

Some of these stories have made their first appearance in the
pages of _The Pall Mall Gazette_, _The Speaker_, _The
Englishwoman_, _The Monthly Packet_, _Black and White_, and _The
Family Circle_, to the Editors of which I am indebted for their
courteous permission to reproduce them here.

_Printed by_ R. & R. CLARK, LIMITED, _Edinburgh_.

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