The Little House in the Fairy Wood by Ethel Cook Eliot
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page 49 of 126 (38%)
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CHAPTER IX THE WIND HUNT After all, Mother Helma was not there the next morning,--nor the next, nor the next. She did not come back for days and days and days. Much happened before she returned, and much happened after. I will tell you. During the days the children roamed the forest looking for their mother. They asked every one they could find whether he had seen her. The Tree Man, his daughter, the Bird Fairies, and the Forest Children, not one of them had seen or heard of her since she went away. But they all said with one accord that she would surely come back in her own time. It was not wise to go seeking her so. She loved them. She would return. "Wait and be patient," they said. "Time will bring Helma." But they were Forest People, who live long, long lives, and see far. Eric was an Earth Child, and Ivra was not all a Forest Child. So they found it hard to be wise and wait and do nothing but trust Helma and know she would return. So they went wandering all the day. They did not go home for meals, even, after a while, but ate with the Tree Man and his daughter or the Forest Children. Sometimes as they walked through the forest, looking |
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