putthem in a little pasteboard box, which he set on the closet-shelfin her room. He meant to tell her, but forgot all about it. The queer little rolls stayed there for two or three months, tillthe pleasant fall weather was over, and winter had come. Butmammas room was always warm. If fairy-babies… … house was very quiet. After a while she heard a queer noise, —tap, tap, tap, — as if somebody knocked. But the taps were verylight, and she could not think what made them. 230 A FAIRY CRADLE. She looked about the room, and opened the closet. She foundthe tapping was inside the little box. What can…
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