| ONE summer, Nelly's auntie, who lived in the country, asked her to come and make a good, long visit, and you may be sure Nelly was very glad to go. |
| She had always lived in the city, and she thought it great fun to feed the hens and chickens and calves, and to watch all the animals and talk to them. |
| Cousin Fred was about her own age, so it was very pleasant for them to play together. Fred took her around the farm and told her about all the pets, and they soon knew her as well as though she had always lived there. |
| Milly, one of the horses, would eat out of a spoon, and Nelly and her cousin took turns feeding her. When they went away, she whinnied for them to come back again, but Nelly said, "You shall have some more to-morrow; you mustn't be a piggy-wiggy." |
| One day Fred and Nelly gathered flowers in the woods, and Nelly made a wreath to put upon her cousin's head. |
| "It seems just like fairyland out here," she said. "Let's play it is fairyland, and I'm a fairy and you're a brownie." |
| Fred thought that a very good game indeed, and they played that they lived in the flowers and could change themselves into birds, or squirrels, or people, whenever they wished. |
| But bye and bye they got hungry, and they couldn't live on the honey from the flowers, as real fairies might; so they spread out the lunch which they had brought and decided to be children again. It seemed as though they had never tasted anything quite so good as that lunch. |