they are singing."

When they heard the Fairies' pretty love song to the little White Cup
the Goblins kicked up their heels and laughed, each laying a tiny
finger beside his nose as he winked at his brother.

Off they scampered to the woods again, and the Fairies kept on singing
their song, while the Daisy watched with its yellow eye, wondering how
her cousin, the White Cup, would be made the color for which she had
wished.

By and by the Goblins came back, but this time they carried bags over
their shoulders and they crept carefully through the grass.

The Fairies saw them all the time, but of course they pretended not to,
and when the Goblins were quite near the Queen said:

"Come, my children; leave your best-loved flower for to-night.
To-morrow you shall come again."

As they were flying away they glanced back, and in the moonlight they
saw the Goblins hard at work over each little White Cup.

When the morning sun awoke he opened wide his eyes, for all over the
field among the Daisies he beheld little Golden Cups nodding gaily at
their cousins with the golden eyes.

The next night when the Fairies came flying through the fields they saw
the Yellow Cups. "You are more beautiful than ever," they said to the
Golden Cups, "and we will call you our Golden Cups, but you must be
known as the Buttercups or the Goblins will discover our trick and make
you white again."

The Buttercups thanked the Fairies and told them they would be glad to
be their cups whenever they gave a banquet and that never would they
let the Goblins know the Fairies had fooled them.

So they bloom among the Daisies in the fields and are called
Buttercups, but they know to the Fairies they are the little Golden
Cups, and the Goblins wonder why the Fairies always seem so happy when
they fly near the Buttercup and find it changed.

The Fairies are too wise to let the Goblins know how they fooled them
and gained for the Buttercups the very color that they wanted, but it
is rather hard sometimes not to tell them when the little Goblins
scamper about and try to upset their plans.

The Fairy Queen has taught them that "Silence is golden," and they know
their Queen is always right.

WAS IT THE FIELD FAIRY?

[Illustration: The Field Fairy]

Jack and his sister Nina were two little orphans who had to beg from
door to door for their food and a place to sleep.

One day a man named Simon told them if they would work for him he would
giv