"0nce upon a time, Not so fairly long ago, A band of tiny fairies Lived in the woodland near. And occasionally I would hear them A-singing soft and low When all was dim and quiet And the moon shone bright and clear. So one evening I stole softly 0ut of the hollow stump, And found them dancing merrily With tiny skip and jump; And just as I was going To say how do you do, The Fairy Queen began to scream. And then away she flew. And then her tiny subjects Took fright and ran off, too, And now I never look at them more A-dancing near my aged stump door."

"That's too bad," said the little rabbit, for he was so interested inwhat the very aged woodchuck was saying that he had forgotten all about hislollypop and had dropped it on the floor.

And in the next tale he'll pick up his lollypop and eat it, because Ihate to have him lose it, don't you?