They cried out, “Oh, the magic chair and spoon and pitcher!” Then the magic chair said, “All jump in and have a ride.” And the magic spoon said, “I will show you how to spin.” Then the magic pitcher said, “I will give you a drink of cider.” They all made merry, you may believe. [Illustration: “_Found the princess sitting alone by her spinning wheel_”] In a short time the magic spoon had all the flax spun into thread; then they grew tired and sleepy and went to bed. The next day they had no work to do as the spinning was all done, so they looked all over the tower and peeped into every closet and corner. At last it was sundown and the little dwarf came as before and found the princess sitting alone by her spinning wheel. He winked his eye and said, “Did you spin all the flax I gave you yesterday? Are you sure you’re quite ready to go away?” Then the princess showed him all the thread, and the dwarf was so surprised that he hardly knew what to say. He began to gather up the thread to take away with him, and he said, “You may laugh and shout, you can’t get out, You have had help beyond a doubt!” Then the magic spoon came in and beat him, and the magic pitcher stood in front of him and poured water on him. Then the magic chair came up behind him and he fell right into it. The chair rocked him out of the window into the deep sea, and he never troubled the princess any more. Then the chair came back and said, “Get in, every one of you, and I will give you a ride.” Then they all got in, the magic pitcher and spoon, too, and they rode away, away, away, to the palace where the princess lived. They let the princess out; and then they rode to the home of the Ink-Bottle Babies, and let all the Babies out. The magic chair then rocked away, taking the magic spoon and pitcher with it. CHAPTER X VACATION TIME June’s a name we like to hear; Glad vacation’s drawing near; Good-bye, good-bye, lesson books; Welcome fields and merry brooks; All our lessons now are over; See the fields of nodding clover. The Ink-Bottle Babies gladly cry, “’Tis vacation time, good-bye, good-bye!” “Hurrah!” cried the Ink-Bottle Babies, “hurrah! hurrah! it is glad vacation time!” Then the Ink-Bottle Mamma said, “We will all go to the woods to-day.” So the Babies were busy packing their twenty-five little dinner pails and they packed a basket of lunch for Ma and Pa. They all started merrily toward the woods. Molly said, “Do you suppose we will find the house where the little dwarfs live?” Then the Ink-Bottle Babies all clapped their hands and shouted, “Oh Ma! oh Pa! do help us find the little dwarfs!” Then Mamma took out a red and white table cloth and spread it on the grass, and all the Ink-Bottle Babies began to unpack their dinner pails, and soon they had a fine dinner ready. They filled their glasses with water from a spring, and just as they were going to sit down a little dwarf ran past them and called,