The Elves of Mount Fern

THE ELVES OF MOUNT FERN KATHERINE CREIGHTON
BY KATHERINE CREIGHTON Author of “Nature Songs and Stories,” “Nature Sketches,” etc., etc.
Publishers DORRANCE Philadelphia
Copyright 1922 Dorrance & Company Inc. All Rights Reserved Printed in the United States of America
To lovers of fairies everywhere I dedicate this book and to the wonderful “little people” who helped Cinderella, Prince Prigio and countless others overcome great difficulties in the Giant World
K. C.
THE ELVES OF MOUNT FERN

THE ELVES
The Elves are the dearest and most mischievous little people in all the wide world.
They live in Elfland, and Elfland can be found in every corner of the globe. They take up their abode on wooded hillsides, beside murmuring streams, or in deep, leafy forests. In the dead of night, when all the world is still, they steal forth from their dwellings and start on their merry midnight rounds. They dance in the moonlight on soft dewy lawns under wide-spreading trees. They visit their neighbors and friends among elves, and their neighbors and friends among men.
The Elves can see and not be seen; they can hear and not be heard; and are so light and nimble in their movements that they can float through the air like a leaf in the wind.