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Phantastes

CHAPTER III
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Hooray!" And off they set, after some new mischief.
But I will not linger to enlarge on the amusing display of these frolicsome creatures.

Their manners and habits are now so well known to the world, having been so often described by eyewitnesses, that it would be only indulging self-conceit, to add my account in full to the rest.
I cannot help wishing, however, that my readers could see them for themselves.

Especially do I desire that they should see the fairy of the daisy; a little, chubby, round-eyed child, with such innocent trust in his look! Even the most mischievous of the fairies would not tease him, although he did not belong to their set at all, but was quite a little country bumpkin.

He wandered about alone, and looked at everything, with his hands in his little pockets, and a white night-cap on, the darling! He was not so beautiful as many other wild flowers I saw afterwards, but so dear and loving in his looks and little confident ways..


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