help me if I could only find her," I said. 

 "'Oh! She will be by the stream in the wood. She sits in a lily until it is time to go home in the morning. I will tell her,' she said." 

 "'Of course I will help you," said the Field Fairy.  "I will change you into anything you like. What shall it be?" 

 "There is another thing, good Field Fairy," said Brindle Cow.  "This poor boy will be punished if I am not carried to the butcher and the money he gets carried back to Simon. This boy and his sister have been very kind to me. They never forgot to bring me water and gave me salt many times when their master did not know it. I should not like to get them into trouble, even to save my life." 

 "Oh, please do not mind us," said Jack, who at last was able to speak. "Nina and I will not mind being punished if only you can escape the butcher." 

 "I have thought of a plan," said the Fairy, "that will save you from the butcher, and will not cause your two friends the least harm, either. It is this: 

 "Instead of changing you into some other shape, why not change your master into a kind and good man?" 

 "Oh, that would be best of all," said Jack, "that is, if Brindle Cow does not object to remaining a cow." 

 "I would rather be a cow if I can be sure I am going to live," replied Brindle Cow.  "But you can understand, of course, there can be no joy in life for me with that butcher staring me in the face." 

 "Well, that is all settled, then," replied the Fairy, "and though the sun is getting well up I think I can get to your master without letting the old Sun Man see me, for it is cool and shady along the road to the farm. You two wait here and see what happens." 

 Jack wondered what the Field Fairy intended to do, but he would not be surprised now at anything, so he began to pick some berries, for he had not had his breakfast, and now Brindle Cow was sure she was not going to the butcher. So she began to eat the sweet grass by the stream. 

 Jack thought she might speak again and he patted her sides and nose, but the only answer Brindle Cow made was to rub her nose against him and moo. 

 After a while Jack heard some one calling his name and running down the road. It was Nina.  "Oh, I am so 

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