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fal\] a seed which a kind Wind carried over the lawn, and the Acorn grew out of it, followed shortly hy the JVlushroom. In these houses the girls slept, studied, became fat, light of foot, and rosy-cheeked.
When Hippolyta moved to Oakwood she heard that a machine had been made to carry people from one point to another and she imme­ diately flew to New York and bought a great big wonderful thing on wheels which made a noise, hut moved along like a gentle breeze. The
name of this contrivance was Reo. Then Hippolyta searched all over the world and at last she found a man named Martin who could manage Reo.
So from that day to this Martin and Reo have done faithful service and have taken the girls to and from Oakwood.
Time passes very quickly for the little fairies. In the afternoons they play and have fairy dances and get slender and graceful. Sometimes, if they are good, they have little round cookies called ginger-snaps, but when they are noisy, as they are once in a while, they have biscuits, mortals call them U-nee-das, hut that isn’t the fairy name for them.
In winter the little sprites wear winged boots, which go by the name of galoshes. These are black and make a delightful tinkling sound when they flap together. They also give the girls opportunities to show their cleverness, for when they have been worn three moons, they are Inclined
to acquire air-holes which the girls cover up with the most attractive designs.
One time one of the little girls, she is a fairy now out in the world, started a club, and every year the fairies that are dramatic are in this club and they give plays under the sheltering pine-trees, and study parts, and
w'ear sweet little pins which distinguish them from the rest of the girls. There are other things too for amusement, for instance letter-writing
home on Sundays.
But some times some of the little girls write letters when they
shouldn’t or even visit their friends after nine-fifteen in the evening, and then they lose their week-ends, but they don’t mind this much because they love their own fairyland more than any other place in the world. And so
does everyone who has seen it.
The seniors, they are the girls in the highest form, have the very
nicest time of all. They are always most respected and looked up to by the girls in the under classes. Besides being allowed to have tea or coffee for breakfast, they may, on holidays, visit the “Yellow Hen,’’ which isn’t
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