. The house of joy . THE MOON-FLOWER iRINCESS BERENICE sat by a window of her fatherspalace, looking out of theMoon. In her hand sheheld a great white pearl,and smiled, for it was hermothers birthday gift. The chamber inwhich she sat was of pure silver, and in thefloor was a small window by which shecould see out of the Moon and right downon to the Earth, where the moonbeams weregoing. There it lay like a great greenemerald ; and wherever the clouds partedto let the moonbeams go through, shecould see the tops of the trees, and broadfields with streams running by. Yonder is the land of the colo
. The house of joy . THE MOON-FLOWER iRINCESS BERENICE sat by a window of her fatherspalace, looking out of theMoon. In her hand sheheld a great white pearl,and smiled, for it was hermothers birthday gift. The chamber inwhich she sat was of pure silver, and in thefloor was a small window by which shecould see out of the Moon and right downon to the Earth, where the moonbeams weregoing. There it lay like a great greenemerald ; and wherever the clouds partedto let the moonbeams go through, shecould see the tops of the trees, and broadfields with streams running by. Yonder is the land of the colouredstones, she said to herself, that the mer-chants go down the moonbeams and bring 138 The House of Joy home and sell. And as she bent lowerand lower and gazed with curious eyes, thegreat pearl rolled from her hand and fellout of the Moon, and went slipping andsliding down a moonbeam, never stoppingtill it got to the Earth. My mothers pearl ! cried the Prin-cess, the most beautiful of all her pearlsthat she gave me
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