e the work of the Field Fairy," said Jack when he and Nina
were talking over what the neighbors said about Simon. "She said she
would change him into a kind and good man."

"Perhaps she came and found him burnt and thought she would wait and
see what happened to him," said Nina, "but I think you fell asleep that
morning, Jack, while you were waiting for Brindle Cow to drink at the
stream."

"Brindle Cow saw the Fairy. Didn't you, Brindle?" asked Jack, as
Brindle Cow came up to the stone wall where Jack and Nina stood.

Brindle Cow looked over the wall straight at Jack and answered,
"Mo-o-o."

"It does not matter, Jack," said Nina, with a laugh, as she patted
Brindle Cow on the nose. "It has all turned out so well and Uncle
Simon could not be kinder or nicer to us now if he were our father.
Sometimes I think it is all because when he was so sick and helpless
that we were kind to him and did all we could even though he had almost
starved us and made us work so hard. I think he is sorry for it and is
trying to do all he can now to make up for his unkindness and make us
forget it."

"Perhaps you are right, Nina," said Jack, "so we will forget it, but I
am sure about the Field Fairy, and Brindle Cow knows it is true, for it
was the Fairy who saved her from the butcher."

But all the answer Jack could get from Brindle Cow was "M-o-o-o!"

THE FROGS AND THE FAIRIES

[Illustration: The Frogs and the fairies]

In a pond in a dell lived a big family of frogs, and one day when the
sun was shining all the young bullfrogs came up out of the water and
hopped on the bank. "I think it would be good fun to see what is in
the dell beside this pond," said Billy Bull, who was a young and
inquisitive frog.

"What do you fellows say to a lark to-night by the light of the moon?"

"We'll go, we'll go, Billy Bull," said all the other young frogs in
chorus.

"Better stay home, better stay home," croaked old Grandfather Bullfrog
from his seat on a stump by the edge of the pond.

"Oh, hear old grandfather croaking!" said Billy Bull; "he never went
out of this pond in all his days, and what does he know of the dell?"

"Better stay home, better stay home," croaked Grandfather Frog.

"You can, Grandfather Frog, if you like, but we young frogs are going
for a lark tonight, and when we come back we will tell you what is in
the dell," said Billy Bull.

That night when the moon was up and shining through the trees, out of
t