Do You Believe in Fairies? by Leonora de Lima Andrews LITERARY COMMODITIES 25 West 43rd Street New York, N. Y. Copyrighted 1924 by Literary Commodities TABLE OF CONTENTS The Little Girl 7 To Please Eight and a Half 11 The Music Charm 16 The Tale of the Fretful Child 17 Ballade for Believers in Fairies 26 The Revenge of Gobble-me-up 28 The Piper 35 Richard the Lion-Hearted 37 Daughter-Goose Rhymes 40 Beauty and the Beach 43 Sensations of Swinburning 46 Day Dreams 47 Rain in the City at Night 48 Christmas 49 Romantic Adventure into Religion 50 Sunday 58 New Year’s Day 59 Silence 60 Bluffing 61 The Delicatessen Shop 62 Listening In 63 Mt. Riga Road 64 Rain 65 Growing Pains 66 Adolescence 68 To ---- 69 Fragment 69 To Marie 70 Freudianisms 72 The Old Man Speaks 74 Ballade for Moralists 75 Heaven at Last 77 The Future 78 DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES? (A book of fantasy for grown-up children) THE LITTLE GIRL The little girl ran and ran and let the wind blow her hair until it stood out behind her as though it were wired. The air was so clear and blue that she thought: “If I jump a little I will land on the top of that mountain over there.”