THE LIGHT GREW BRIGHTER AND BRIGHTER [122]
AROUND HIM WERE HUNDREDS AND HUNDREDS OF TINY FIGURES [220]
THIS is a true story.
It all happened through George Henry not believing in the fairies, just as some boys but very few girls would do.
Boys believe in Red Indians and pirates, and think fairies are all stuff and nonsense; but they are quite wrong, for Puck can turn himself into anybody or anything he chooses. So if one day when you are ploughing the foaming main you sight a pirate ship flying the skull and crossbones at the masthead, it may not be a pirate at all, but only Puck himself.
Beware! If he catches you he will make you walk the fairy plank, and you will fall off it splash! right into Fairyland, and find yourself turned into a cross old frog or something quite as disagreeable.