THE FAIRY BABIES Books by LAURA ROUNTREE SMITH Bunny and Bear Book, The Bunny Boy and Grizzly Bear Bunny Bright-Eyes Bunny Cotton-Tail Junior Candy-Shop Cotton-Tails, The Children’s Favorite Stories Circus Book, The Circus Cotton-Tails, The Cotton-Tail First Reader, The Cotton-Tail Primer, The Cotton-Tails in Toyland, The Drills and Plays for Patriotic Days Fairy Babies, The Games and Plays Hawk-Eye and Hiawatha Language Lessons from Every Land Little Bear Little Eskimo Merry Little Cotton-Tails, The Mother Goose Stories Primary Song Book Roly-Poly Book, The Runaway Bunny, The Seventeen Little Bears Snubby Nose and Tippy Toes Tale of Bunny Cotton-Tail, The Three Little Cotton-Tails Published by A. FLANAGAN COMPANY CHICAGO THE FAIRY BABIES By Laura Rountree Smith Illustrated by Dorothy Dulin 1924 A. FLANAGAN COMPANY Chicago _COPYRIGHT, 1924, BY A. FLANAGAN COMPANY_ PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA CONTENTS Page Chapter I The Magic Pitcher 7 Chapter II The Fortune Teller 16 Chapter III Thanksgiving Dinner 29 Chapter IV The Little Dwarf’s Christmas 39 Chapter V A Wonderful Dream 50 Chapter VI The Magic Spoon 64 Chapter VII The Magic Kites 77 Chapter VIII The Magic Rocking-Chair 91 Chapter IX May-Day 103 Chapter X Vacation Time 114 [Illustration: “_And they put the key in the lock_” (PAGE 89)] THE FAIRY BABIES CHAPTER I THE MAGIC PITCHER Said the Fairy Ink-Bottle Babies, “What do you think? We all came out of a bottle of ink! We are very little to mind each rule, But still we are going to start to school; And if we remember, it starts in September! This old-fashioned thing called school!” Said the Fairy Ink-Bottle Babies, “What fun! See, school has already begun!” The Fairy Ink-Bottle Babies sat in a row. They looked as though they would roll off the top of the desks at any minute. “You are almost as bad about rolling over as the Roly-Poly children,” said the teacher. “Oh! oh! oh!” cried one of the Ink-Bottle Babies. “I am rolling over!”