વાર્તાને કહેવા યોગ્ય કેમ બનાવવી? and down the hill till she came to the dark cave. Her long frock caught on the brambles as she went, and her hands were a good deal scratched, and once she tripped and fell. But of course she did not mind anything of that kind, because she was thinking all the time about the nightingale. ૧૨૩ Agatha walked into the cave without knocking and found the magician at home. I dare say you know that all good Magicians have kind faces and long white beards. This one was a good Magician, so he had a kind face and a long white beard. Agatha was not in the least afraid of him. She told him at once why she had come. "Please," she said, "I want to be a nightingale." "A nightingale, my dear ?" said the Wise Man. "That is a very strange thing for you to want to be C Don't you know that the nightingale is the Bird of Shadows, who sings by night and is very sad ?" "I shouldn't mind that a bit," Said Agatha, "If I could only fly about and sing with a beautiful voice." exprime bute "Well, then." Said the Wise Man, "If you don't mind being sad, this is what you must do. Every day you must come here to see me, and each time you must bring me one of the pearls from your necklace."
