angry if they made us golden?" asked the White Cups; "I am sure we can find a way." 

 "That would be the very thing," said the Daisy, "but what do you propose to do?" 

 "We will ask the Fairies when they come into the fields to-night for their frolic," said the White Cups. 

 That night when the Fairies came flying over the field the White Cups called to them and told them what they wanted. 

 "Oh, that will be beautiful," said the Fairy Queen, "and we can fool the Goblins easy enough, as you shall see." 

 The Fairy Queen called her Fairies around her and whispered so low that the field flowers could not hear what she said, but they heard the Fairies laugh as they flew away, and each alighted on a little White Cup and began to sing. 

 "We love you, little White Cup, Our Lady of the Field; We will watch o'er you and keep you and from all danger shield; You are prettier than the Daisy with her yellow eye so bright, You are like a waxen blossom in the pale moonlight." 

 

 Over and over they sang the verse as they leaned over and kissed the little Cups, and by and by from out of the woods came the Goblins, hopping and jumping like leaves before the wind. 

 "Here they are," they said, when they saw the Fairies.  "Listen and hear what they are singing." 

 When they heard the Fairies' pretty love song to the little White Cup the Goblins kicked up their heels and laughed, each laying a tiny finger beside his nose as he winked at his brother. 

 Off they scampered to the woods again, and the Fairies kept on singing their song, while the Daisy watched with its yellow eye, wondering how her cousin, the White Cup, would be made the color for which she had wished. 

 By and by the Goblins came back, but this time they carried bags over their shoulders and they crept carefully through the grass. 

 The Fairies saw them all the time, but of course they pretended not to, and when the Goblins were quite near the Queen said: 

 "Come, my children; leave your best-loved flower for to-night. To-morrow you shall come again." 

 As they were flying away they glanced back, and in the moonlight they saw the Goblins hard at 

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