A MISCHIEVOUS FAIRY 189 



ers they would love. Most of the plants had but 

 one flower, although one had three that had turned 

 to brown, so I thought it was getting ready to 

 make seed. 



I was so pleased to find these flowers that at 

 first I didn't look far enough away to see another 

 little one that was quite different. It was only a 

 white stem with the queerest little flowers growing 

 out from its sides near the top. These were 

 brown and white, with purple dots in the center of 

 the white, and they had a sharp look like some in- 

 sects getting ready to snap. I felt sure these little 

 flowers were very rare. I dug a stick down into 

 the earth about them, so that I could take them 

 up without harming their roots, for, of course. 

 Tommy would want me to fetch them back and 

 plant them in that very spot again. The fern that 

 grew by the queer flower was the one we call 

 Spleenwort. 



When I had these two new flowers in my hand, 

 I went back for the Ghost-flower and took it up 

 and wrapped it in a large Wild Raspberry leaf. 

 The little sick robin had gone away, and I couldn't 

 see the old bird anywhere. 



Just as I got back to our house Herr Wilhelm 

 Fritz was taking out the megaphone. Tommy was 

 in the library with Grandmother, and when I came 

 in with so many treasures in my hand. Grand- 

 mother said I was more of a witch than the one 

 Fraulein had told her about. 



