Away ran the little pixie as fast as his legs could carry him.
Now there was one pixie named Twinkling Feet who was the best dancer in the ring, and he could cut such queer little capers that his companions fairly shrieked with laughter when they looked at him.
The pixie hopped into the lantern, and away through the air the three sailed.
And if a pixie loses anything on Hallowe’en, he must find it before midnight or give it up forever.
When they stopped dancing for a little while, the Fiddler Pixie slipped up to the Twinkling Feet, and whispered slyly, “Always watch your laugh carefully while you are dancing.
Very slyly he tripped his partner, and the two fell down in the grass, dragging with them one pixie after another until all in the circle were sprawling on the ground.
They looked at each other very solemnly and said, “A pixie without a laugh!
A pixie can’t dance without his laugh,” sighed Twinkling Feet.
You can not dance in a pixie ring without your laugh, and mark what I say, you must find it before midnight.
The main theme is concerned with a queer littlepixie creature called Meg Morton.
However," she added, "if we can have thepixie out and give her a good time I shan't mind the relationship so much.
Little they knew, and less thought I, that the pixie then before them would dance their castle down one day.
Here in a dark and lonely corner, with a pixie ring before it, she came to a narrow door, very brown and solid, looking like a trunk of wood at a little distance.
Pixie followed in thought the history of each old friend.
Miss O'Shaughnessy seems to appreciate smoked tea," said Stanor, and Pixiesturdily defended her position.
Quite natural also Pixieappeared to find the action, for the cold little fingers had tightened affectionately round his own.
Pixie sat motionless--so silent, so motionless, that not a breath seemed to stir her being.
Did Pixie realise how instinctively her eyes sought Stephen's for sympathy and appreciation?
Pixie returned at this moment, leading Geoff by the hand, and when the great car glided up to the door, she and the boy went out together to see the last of the departing guest.
Pixie had done her best to help, and now sunshine and Stanor were waiting!
She suggested not once, but many times in succession, that Pixie should return in her place to take the head of the household, but here Pat grew obstinate in his turn.
Pixie waved her hands with the Frenchiness of gesture which was the outcome of an education abroad, and which made an amusing contrast with an Irish accent, unusually pronounced.
I don't think," said Pixie dreamily, "you have done anything.
Pixie made her way to her favourite seat at the end of a long, straight path, bordered on each side by square-cut hedges of yew.
The maidens broke the magic ring, And leaped the cummer dart; 'Alas, our little Pixie king, The thorn is in his heart!
Several old Gidleigh cottagers to whom we narrated the incident were of the opinion we had been 'Pixie led.
Pixie cried eagerly-- "Will I run upstairs and try what I can do?
Pixie in a tone of shocked reproof which silenced the protests on Sylvia's lips.
In another moment she would be able to lift Inda ashore; but Viva, frantic with terror, was clamouring to be taken too, and Pixie impetuously lifted her towards the bank.
Pixie smote her fists together, and stamped on the floor with dramatic emphasis.
I'd call it stupidity, if you asked my opinion," said Pixie calmly.
What ofPixie O'Shaughnessy, of the ready tongue, and the audacious self- confidence, which would flourish unchecked in the presence of kings and emperors?
Pixie darted a quick glance round the box to enjoy the general appreciation of her joke, then gave a low chuckle of satisfaction.
Pixie tauntingly, as she pirouetted to and fro on the top of the table, to which she had lightly sprung at the first moment of discovery.
Jack said, laughing, and Pixie nodded with ruthless candour.
At the first interval Pixie came forward in response to eager beckonings, and stood leaning against the side of the box talking to her friend, with superb disregard of the more extended audience.
Pixie in her most Parisian manner, not attempting to shake hands, but bowing with an air of gracious effusion from half-way across the room.
Had she ever noticed the way the seeds came fluffing out of the cinnamon cones and the asters and the golden rod and the fire flower in September, for all the world like fairies sailing pixie parachutes?
And during the night, the wind sprang up shaking all the pixie tambourines in the pines and the hemlocks, and setting the poplars and cottonwoods clapping their hands.
Pixie and Dixie in Boxing Buddy; Huckleberry Hound in Tough little termite; Yogi Bear in Hide and go peek.
Huckleberry Hound in Two corny crows; Yogi Bear in Baffled bear; Pixie and Dixie in The ghost with the most.
Yogi Bear in Be my guest pest; Pixie and Dixie in Puppet pals; Huckleberry Hound in Tricky trapper.
Huckleberry Hound in Bird house blues; Yogi Bear in Prize fight fright; Pixie and Dixie in Jinks' mice device.
Pixie and Dixie in Mark of the mouse; Huckleberry Hound in Sheep-shape sheepherder; Yogi Bear in Pie-pirates.
Huckleberry Hound in Rustler hustler Huck; Yogi Bear in Big brave bear; Pixie and Dixie in Scaredy cat dog.
Yogi Bear in Bear on a picnic; Pixie and Dixie in Dinky Jinks; Sir Huckleberry Hound.
Yogi Bear in Tally ho ho ho; Pixie and Dixie in Little bird mouse; Huckleberry Hound in Freeway patrol.
Pixie and Dixie in Jinks Junior; Huckleberry Hound in Fireman Huck; Yogi Bear's big break.
Pixie and Dixie in Pistol packin' pirate; Sheriff Huckleberry; Yogi Bear in Foxy hound dog.
Yogi Bear in The brave little brave; Pixie and Dixie in The ace of space; Huckleberry Hound meets Wee Willie.
Pixie and Dixie in Hypnotize surprise; Huckleberry Hound in Hokum smokum; Yogi Bear in Big bad bully.
Pixie and Dixie in Jinks' flying carpet; Huckleberry Hound in Hookey daze; Yogi Bear in Slumber party smarty.
Huckleberry Hound in Lion tamer Huck; Yogi Bear in Daffy daddy; Pixie and Dixie in Cat nap cat.
Her delicate forehead wrinkled and her pixie face showed puzzlement.
Isobel Cunningham, slight of build, pixie of face, crisply modern American with her tongue and wit.
Pixie is still alive and flourishing, and readily lends himself to experiments, which, however, yield no very definite result.
I was away for six weeks, during the whole of which time Pixie remained contentedly at his new abode.
The Pixie scheme had for the moment lost its charm, but I would not give in.
I am still in love with the Pixie scheme; but, while summer lasts, and the garden grows more beautiful every day, I want to stay here!
Bobby on the fifteenth of July, springing out of the pony-trap before Pixie had stopped, and taking a flying leap over the pump-trough in the exuberance of his spirits.
Pixie was fresh, and kept up a fine pace, scarcely slacking for the hills, so they soon got over the ground.
But, you see, you have Pixie instead, and I think a pony's really nicer.
No; but I've seen the dewdrops shining just like diamonds, and I've seen the mist make wonderful pixie castles in the moonlight.
Our old nurse used to call fungusespixie stools," said Edith Carey, "and the hollow ones were pixies' baths.
You'll be saddled with your pixie girl for the rest of the tour.
In her pixie moods she seemed almost to resent it.
The little American had a most lovable side for certain people, on whom she bestowed the warmth of her affection, though she could be a pixie to those who did not happen to please her.
Don't quite know exactly what that means; but I guess I've got a little pixie imp dancing around inside me, and he's going to make me do something crazy.
I've had a pixie day ever since I got up this morning.
You can and shall find me my child," said Nancy, "for I know that the pixies have stolen him away, and that only a pixie can bring him back to me.
You know how I flare out, but I'll make a bouncing start at this new school and think of you every time I get into a pixie mood.
I'd rather call the tumulus a pixie mound, and imagine the wee folk coming tumbling out of it some moonlight night, and dancing on the grass.
You see," she said, "I am not a pixie or a mermaid.
I am not sure," George said, as he stopped beside her, "whether you are a pixie or a mermaid.
Soon the three fairies appeared, and one pixie dancing in Frances' aura.
This lady desired to make a rock-garden, and for this purpose got some large boulders from a field hard by, which had always been known as the pixie stones, and built them into her new rockery.
The pixie looked around the table peculiarly unchanged by the news.
The pixie came into my office one morning and congratulated me.
Jennings called a meeting of all people concerned in the Atummyc Powder project, and they included me as well as the pixie and her brother, the assistant chemist.
The pixie threw back her head and a near-hysterical laugh throbbed from her lovely throat.
I noticed that the pixie herself, for all her radiance, had a troubled look on her face.
The pixie had been a pretty little French pastry from the first, but now she positively glowed.
Would they imitate her brogue in their thin mincing voices, and if so, how, oh, how would Pixie conduct herself in return?
Pixie tearfully; and at the sound of her voice, as at a signal, all the girls stopped talking and fixed their eyes upon her.
Pixie unravelled string and wire, and the three elders worked steadily at their separate wreaths.
Whatever Pixie has done, she is too warm-hearted to be called `hardened,' and I think some of you girls make a great mistake in treating her as you do.
Ethel was tossing her curls, Flora beaming from ear to ear, Kate's eyes were dancing behind her spectacles, Margaret was looking across the table at Pixie with an anxious, scrutinising glance.
The girls rose and filed slowly past, Pixie skipping complacently in front, with her arm round another new friend, whom she was prepared to adore even more fondly than the last.
I was so frightened--and there was no time to think, for Pixie was running along the passage, so I just mopped up the scent with my handkerchief, and flew to the door.
The agonising presentiment that her ignorance was about to be discovered before her schoolmates reduced Pixie at one blow to a condition of abject despair.
Margaret went, and, at the first opening of the door, Pixie rushed into her arms with a cry of joyous welcome.
So saying, he again contrived thatPixie should show some remnants of activity.
Old Pixie and his old master have survived many a tall fellow, and many a great horse--neither of them good for much themselves.
