work over each little White Cup. 

 When the morning sun awoke he opened wide his eyes, for all over the field among the Daisies he beheld little Golden Cups nodding gaily at their cousins with the golden eyes. 

 The next night when the Fairies came flying through the fields they saw the Yellow Cups.  "You are more beautiful than ever," they said to the Golden Cups, "and we will call you our Golden Cups, but you must be known as the Buttercups or the Goblins will discover our trick and make you white again." 

 The Buttercups thanked the Fairies and told them they would be glad to be their cups whenever they gave a banquet and that never would they let the Goblins know the Fairies had fooled them. 

 So they bloom among the Daisies in the fields and are called Buttercups, but they know to the Fairies they are the little Golden Cups, and the Goblins wonder why the Fairies always seem so happy when they fly near the Buttercup and find it changed. 

 The Fairies are too wise to let the Goblins know how they fooled them and gained for the Buttercups the very color that they wanted, but it is rather hard sometimes not to tell them when the little Goblins scamper about and try to upset their plans. 

 The Fairy Queen has taught them that "Silence is golden," and they know their Queen is always right. 

 

 

 WAS IT THE FIELD FAIRY? 

 

 The Field Fairy 

 Jack and his sister Nina were two little orphans who had to beg from door to door for their food and a place to sleep. 

 One day a man named Simon told them if they would work for him he would give them a home. 

 Jack and Nina thought Simon must be a very kind-hearted man to offer them a home, so they worked just as hard as they could to repay him. 

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