. A study of a child. arge, beautiful trees, with steps running up the sides ofthe trees. Now these wise little Brownies knew all aboutthe story of Jack and his Bean-stalk, and they thoughtthat perhaps they had found a fairy bean-stalk. Theypicked out a tree that seemed higher to them than all^the others, and then they began to climb—high, higher,and yet higher, for every time they thought they werenear the top up would seem to go another lot of kept on, however, pufiing and panting, until atlast what do you think they saw ? (Here Harold al-ways says, I dont know, waiting expectantl
. A study of a child. arge, beautiful trees, with steps running up the sides ofthe trees. Now these wise little Brownies knew all aboutthe story of Jack and his Bean-stalk, and they thoughtthat perhaps they had found a fairy bean-stalk. Theypicked out a tree that seemed higher to them than all^the others, and then they began to climb—high, higher,and yet higher, for every time they thought they werenear the top up would seem to go another lot of kept on, however, pufiing and panting, until atlast what do you think they saw ? (Here Harold al-ways says, I dont know, waiting expectantly.) Abeautiful white cloud, floating very near the higheststep, and sitting upon the cloud was another littleBrownie. How did he get there? They looked andlooked, but after so hard a climb they hadnt any breathleft to ask him how he came. Yery soon, however,after they had rested a little, they turned to find outall about it, when what do you think they saw ? (Har-old again says, I dont know.) They saw he was go- 152. 1894 CUTTINGS OF ENGINES
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