30 MAKY'S GAEDEN AND HOW IT GEEW 



and showed it to her, and she saw the wonderful 

 dance through the window of of ' pellucid ice 'and 

 she said, 'Look, but thou mayst not enter!' and 

 there were gardens and trees and flowers," she went 

 on breathlessly, "and all 



' seemed wrought 

 Of stainless alabaster.' " 



The old gardener smiled. "Yes. Well, little one, 

 there was once a fine young knight imprisoned under 

 the snow palace; he did not belong to the little 

 Snow People ; he was one of Mother Earth's children. 

 His name was Galanthus, and he wore a suit of beau- 

 tiful green armor. 



"One day the little Snow maiden found him there, 

 in the dungeon under the palace, and she was sorry 

 for him. So every day she crept down to the dun- 

 geon, and the young knight told her stories of his 

 Mother Earth and the wonderful things she did, 

 which the little Snow maiden had never heard of. 



"Now, you know the spring is death to the little 

 Snow People ; before a breath of warmth touches the 

 snow they are frightened, and rush and hurry to the 

 high mountains, where there is snow and cold all 

 the year. But the little Snow maiden forgot about 



