ow _lovely_ it feels to fly.
Percy, _do_ let us try to make some wings."

But Percy's greater experience was less hopeful.

"I'm afraid it would be no use," he said. "People have often tried. I've
heard stories of it. They only tumbled down."

"Did they hurt themselves?" asked Ted.

"I expect so," Percy replied.

Just then David, who was passing by, stopped to tell the boys that some
one was calling them in from the house.

"Is it your papa, Master Ted; yes, I think," he said.

Ted's leg was feeling less stiff and painful now. He could walk almost
as well as usual. When they got to the house-door his father was waiting
for him. He had heard of Ted's misfortune, and there was rather a comical
smile on his face as he stooped to kiss his little boy.

"I want you to come in to see Mr. Brand," he said. "He says he hasn't
seen you for a long time, little Ted."

Ted raised his blue eyes to his father's face with a rather puzzled
expression.

"Whom's Mr. Brand?" he asked.

"Why, don't you remember him, Teddy?" said Percy. "That great big
gentleman--so awfully tall."

Ted did not reply, but he seemed much impressed.

"Is him a diant?" he asked, gravely.

"Very nearly, I should say," said Percy, laughing, and then, as he had
already seen Mr. Brand, who had met Ted's father on his way back from
A----, Percy ran off in another direction, and Ted followed his father
into the drawing-room.

Mr. Brand was sitting talking to Ted's mother, but just as the door
opened, he rose from his seat and came forward.

"I was just going to ask you if--ah! here's your little boy," he said
to Ted's father. Then, sitting down again, he drew Ted between his knees
and looked kindly at the small innocent face. He was very fond of
children, but he did not know much about them, and Ted, looking and
feeling rather overawed, stood more silently than usual, staring
seriously at the visitor.

He was very tall and very big. Whether he quite came up to Ted's idea of
a "diant" I cannot tell. But queer fancies began to chase each other
round the boy's brain. There had been a good deal to excite and upset
the little fellow--at no time a strong child--that day, and his dream
when lying asleep on the grass had added to it all. And now, as he stood
looking up at big Mr. Brand, a strange confusion of ideas filled his
mind--of giants tall enough to reach the sky, to catch and bring down
some of the cloud-wings Ted wished so for, interspersed with