THE summer moon shone brightly down upon the sleeping earth while far away from mortal eyes danced the Fairy folk. Fire-flies hung in bright clusters on the dewy leaves that waved in the cool night-wind; and the flowers stood gazing in very wonder at the little Elves who lay among the fern-leaves swung in the vine-boughs sailed on the lake in lily cups or danced on the mossy ground to the music of the hare-bells who rung out their merriest peal in honor of the night.