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FAIRY-SYLVIE.
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tities of long brown hair and large earnest brown eyes, and then I shall have done all I can to give you an idea of her.
Sylvie (I found out her name afterwards) had knelt down, just as I was doing, to help the Beetle; but it needed more than a little stick for her to get it on its legs again; it was as much as she could do, with both arms, to roll the heavy thing over; and all the while she was talking to it, half scolding and half comforting, as a nurse might do with a child that had fallen down.
