. In happy far-away land . t come to take tea. Dr. Foster had forgotten togive it to the Queen. The other letter was one the Queen had written toMrs. Foster as soon as she heard of Mrs. Sprats sons return. Dr. Fosterhad slipped it into his pocket just before he set off for Gloster. There wasnothing else to tell Tom who the little girl was, and as he never read thenewspapers, never paid any visits, and almost never went to town, he did notknow that a child had been lost. He tried to find out what her name was when she awoke, but she wasbusy playing with the faded daffodils which had fallen from
. In happy far-away land . t come to take tea. Dr. Foster had forgotten togive it to the Queen. The other letter was one the Queen had written toMrs. Foster as soon as she heard of Mrs. Sprats sons return. Dr. Fosterhad slipped it into his pocket just before he set off for Gloster. There wasnothing else to tell Tom who the little girl was, and as he never read thenewspapers, never paid any visits, and almost never went to town, he did notknow that a child had been lost. He tried to find out what her name was when she awoke, but she wasbusy playing with the faded daffodils which had fallen from her sash, andwhen Tommy asked her name, she smiled and said : Daffy-Down-Dilly. So Tommy Tittlemouse called her Daffy-Down-Dilly, and she lived therewith him in the little house from that day. Tom was very kind to her, andsoon grew to love her so well that he did not want her to leave him, so henever tried to find out who she was. Daffy-Down-Dilly became one of the sweetest and prettiest little girls 40 DAFFY-DO WN-DILL Y. in all Far Away Land. She had no playmates, except the birds and squirrelsand the flowers, which seemed to her just as much alive as the birds. Ofthem all she loved the daffodils best, and whenever Tommy Tittlemousewent to town to buy her a new frock, she always asked for one the colorof the daffodils. When she had grown to be nine years old, Tom began to think that itwas very selfish of him to want to keep her always in the forest. He wasgrowing old, and he knew she could not live alone in the little house if hewere to die. He made up his mind that at last he would try to find outwhat the writing in the letters which he had found in the coat pockets meant,for he knew that they would surely tell him who the little girls friends he stopped a hunter in the forest one day and showed him one letter. Why, said the hunter, that is a letter to the Queen. Where did you •.<- ~iget it t DAFFY-DO WN-DILL Y r Tom would not tell that, but he knew then that D
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