`` It makes one so tired . I 'm sure it was exciting enough when Paddy was missing , but we did n't find that very pleasant . '' `` No , but it was interesting , '' returned the Story Girl thoughtfully . `` After all , I believe I 'd rather be miserable than dull . '' `` I would n't then , '' said Felicity decidedly . `` And you need never be dull when you have work to do . ` Satan finds some mischief still for idle hands to do ! ' '' `` Well , mischief is interesting , '' laughed the Story Girl . `` And I thought you did n't think it lady-like to speak of that person , Felicity ? '' `` It 's all right if you call him by his polite name , '' said Felicity stiffly . `` Why does the Lombardy poplar hold its branches straight up in the air like that , when all the other poplars hold theirs out or hang them down ? '' interjected Peter , who had been gazing intently at the slender spire showing darkly against the fine blue eastern sky . `` Because it grows that way , '' said Felicity . `` Oh I know a story about that , '' cried the Story Girl . `` Once upon a time an old man found the pot of gold at the rainbow 's end . There IS a pot there , it is said , but it is very hard to find because you can never get to the rainbow 's end before it vanishes from your sight . But this old man found it , just at sunset , when Iris , the guardian of the rainbow gold , happened to be absent . As he was a long way from home , and the pot was very big and heavy , he decided to hide it until morning and then get one of his sons to go with him and help him carry it . So he hid it under the boughs of the sleeping poplar tree . `` When Iris came back she missed the pot of gold and of course she was in a sad way about it .
She sent Mercury , the messenger XXXXX the gods , to look for it , for she did n't dare leave the rainbow again , lest somebody should run off with that too .
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