Excerpt from Once Upon a Time: The Faerie Doings in Cedar Creek Valley

Now it happened that the eldest son of the Birds' Beautiful Friend had a little daughter. Her name was Faith and she had heard so much about the fairies from her Father that, above all else in the world, she longed to see them.

When she was eight years old she confided this desire to her Father who told her to make ready at once to go with him upon a long journey for he intended to take her to visit his beautiful. Mother. And in less time than it takes to tell it, they were on their way.

They travelled two whole days and a night before they reached the Village Where The Cedars Grow. And, as they travelled, Faith's Father talked to her about the Little People and told her lovely stories of their doings and of her Grandmother, the Birds' Beautiful Friend.

They arrived at her house in the Place Where the Birds Like to Nest just at twilight and all that evening Faith chatted with her Grandmother and her Father. But early the next morning when she opened her eyes she found hanging over the foot of her bed the prettiest yellow dress.

It fitted her exactly and was so soft and light that when she had it on she felt as if she were a little yellow butterfly. Then she began to look around for her shoes and stockings, but the dew laden grass was too tempting. She just couldn't wait to run over it and tripping downstairs she Opened the big front door.

On the verandah, her Grandmother was talking with the birds but at sight of her little grand-daughter she came toward her and Faith saw that she held a wooden cup brimful of foaming milk and a great brown staff which was as tall as herself and rough with a pointed spike at the bottom.

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