'"
"Have you ever seen any pixies yourself, Miss Pollard?" asked Doreen
eagerly.
"No; but I've seen the dewdrops shining just like diamonds, and I've seen
the mist make wonderful pixie castles in the moonlight. We can live in a
fairy world of our own if we look at the right things. It depends on your
eyes. Those people who keep their childhood have the pixies all round
them."
"You have!" said Mavis, as Miss Pollard rose to say good-night to her
circle of listeners. "You're like Peter Pan, and never grow old!"
"I had such a happy childhood! And it seemed so much the best part of
life that I've always been reluctant to let the glamour go. Children
ought to be brought up on fairy tales! They're incipient poetry, and
should be woven into the web of our lives as a beautiful border, before
all the dark prose part follows. If the shuttle only weaves matter-of-
fact threads it spoils the pattern!"
CHAPTER XVI
The Tadpole Club
It was quite interesting to be a boarder at 'The Moorings,' though it had
its more sober side, particularly for Merle.
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