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to join in their dances within the "mystic circle." On 

 pleasant nights these little people sat or danced on the 

 top of the toadstools. If a sudden shower came on 

 they huddled together beneath them. One old gar- 

 dener declared that he had seen the fairies holding a 



" These are the tents of the fairies 



That camped last night on the lawn. 

 Early this morning I found them, 

 But the sly fairies had gone." 



toadstool over their fairy queen for an umbrella, as 

 she tripped home in the rain. 



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