“Gee! I didn’t know it was easy as that.” Bob was a trifle contemptuous.
“Easy!” The Fairy rose, rather quickly for a fat boy. “If you think it’s easy you just try it: I’ve been three months learning.”
“Three months?”
“Not all the time of course; but every time I could get the chance to practise. The directions in books are as good as words can tell, but there’s a lot you have to see with your eyes that can’t be told.”
“Six minutes—that’s fair time. Oh, Billy! The flag-staff! Where did you find it? Where’s the rest of it?”
“That’s what we want to know; this is all we found. Did you get anything?”
“This.” Hugh took from his pocket a much worn shoe the size to fit a child of seven or eight.
“Heavens! A lost kid!”
“A little girl, too.”
“How do you know that, Fairy?”