Carroll and Brooks readers - a reader for the fifth grade . d fairies. And so it went on from year to year. He was apoor man, but very cheerful, and always singing andmaking merry; but sometimes he would wish to havea little more money, so that he need not be obligedto go up to the pastures in the cold, foggy wasnt much wonder, sir, for its cold enough uphere, some days. It was in summer, and the flowers were all inblossom, and he was walking along after his sheep,when all at once he saw a wonderful sky-blue flower ofa kind he had never seen before in all his life. Somepeople say
Carroll and Brooks readers - a reader for the fifth grade . d fairies. And so it went on from year to year. He was apoor man, but very cheerful, and always singing andmaking merry; but sometimes he would wish to havea little more money, so that he need not be obligedto go up to the pastures in the cold, foggy wasnt much wonder, sir, for its cold enough uphere, some days. It was in summer, and the flowers were all inblossom, and he was walking along after his sheep,when all at once he saw a wonderful sky-blue flower ofa kind he had never seen before in all his life. Somepeople say it was sky-blue, and some that it was golden-yellow ; I dont know which is right. Well, however itwas, there was the wonderful flower, as large as yourhand, growing in the grass. The shepherd stoopeddown and broke the stem; but just as he was lifting THE TWO HERD-BOYS 207 up the flower to examine it, lie saw that there was adoor in the side of the mountain. Now he had been over the ground a hundred timesbefore, and had never seen anything of the kind. Yet. it was a real door, and it was open, and there was apassage into the earth. He looked into it for a longtime, and at last plucked up heart and in he forty or fifty steps, he found himself in a largehall, full of chests of gold and diamonds. There wasan old kobold, with a white beard, sitting in a chairbeside a large table in the middle of the hall. The shep-herd was at first frightened, but the kobold looked at 208 A READER FOR THE FIFTH GRADE him with a friendly face, and said, Take what youwant, and dont forget the best! So the shepherd laid the flower on the table, andwent to work and filled his pockets with the gold anddiamonds. When he had as much as he conld carry,the kobold said again, Dont forget the best! ThatI wont, the shepherd thought to himself, and tookmore gold and the biggest diamonds he could find, andfilled his hat, so that he could scarcely stagger underthe load. He was leaving the hall, when the
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