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 upon the ground. There were the shreds beside the bush where she was hiding, and Meg followed them, calling to the others. In and out amongst the trees they ran, following the shreds of ragweed, and with the dwarfs behind them shouting and striking the trees with their axes. On and on the children went, until they came to where the ash trees and the bushy white-thorn trees were. The tree dwarfs came no farther.

There the children sat down, and they all wept except Johnny-Jump-Up. They heard the voices of the other children playing, and they went toward Old Couple's House in the Wood of Daylight-Gone.