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Show THE SANDMAN ! STORIES il I jwhat the Goblins and the Spider Say Car upon a tlm ther llitd In ancient Holland a small maiden railed r're'le. rhe and her mother had a collage near a tulip field and not far from one of the big dykea whlrh kept lha ocean out of tn land. Th mother sawed all day stitching lha plain clothing, but this brought her In only a little money. In those days there was no finery, only dresses nf won! and dressed skins, but ths mother and daughter manager! ta llv. Then one ilav a flood rame, her eowe wer drowned and poverty atard them In the fao. In deep die-treaa die-treaa t'reda wandered out Inlo the field trying to think of some plsn fur help. The sun wsa warm. o she sat In Ih shad of a buati by the aide n( tha road. ITaeemty she noticed a apl-iter's apl-iter's broken weh swinging lonaely from a bough. Carefully she lifted It and pul It hark In place. "I am much obliged for your kind-neaa," kind-neaa," aalil ih apider. aa she sprang nut Intn her web. "Ma) he sum day I ran repay you." rYeda went on down tha road. As alia walked she noticed a tiny man In front nf her dragging his font as if hurt "Tan I help youT said Kreda, kind-Iv. kind-Iv. running up to the tiny persnn. who was really a gohlln that lived In a dyke, "I was washed mil of my home l.y the flood." sighed Ih goblin. "Hut I hav found a aaf horn In an nld , atump. I hruleed my foot Juat now. ao I will ba glad tu hav uu carry ma a hit of th way." r'red.i look the we man nn her ehoiilih r till aha found lha dry stump which ha now made his home. Hera she sal him down safe and dry. "I ran not tell you huw much I em obliged for your kindness." said lha goblin, stroking hia tiny beard, "but I j think I can alao be of use tu yog. If mi lire snout In Ihe fields here, eprll!y istrsggl.iig in fence corners, a strange I blue fluwar. which folk think la a j weed. Well, it ia nut. My grand- mother told me.lt waa a moat value-line value-line plant, that from Ihe a; off within the atalk there could be gotten hun-idr-di i.f strong thread. Juat like all k. I am sura you ran make lire nf It " "Why, mother could sew with that eir'alma.1 KreiU. delighted Thia la the way that the firat linen thread became known from th flag plant, ao the goblins aay. tin her way Freda paeerd the spider alttllig contentedly In hla well. Hhe est down a while to real and dropped asleep Htil the spider was busy ail the whll When she swnke, she did not see her bundle of flag anywhere in.l g.iseil about seeklivg It vainly The auliler ran over her hand. I "le-ok on the bough over 0ur hand." said th apider. I l-rviVi glanced upward and aaw a atrange sight. ' for from ths two branches of ih hush nverhingipg her l:ip hung the linen tlire.id. IU nut as cord st all. for It had been taken by the apliler and spun Into a beau'tfiit. drlii-at bit of la' of th moat -qulatt daalgn. "Teach your mother tn mak her thread inlo trimming Ilk that," cried |