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Look again, master, look again, do. 



There's one on your shoulder laughing at you 

 And there on your hat sits a cute Httle elf 

 So funny I'm almost laughing myself/;; 



Look again, master, look again, do. 



Puppy's not fooling. Honest and true 



The fairies swarm 'round us thicker than bees 

 Can't master see what his puppy dog sees? 



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But I'm improving. How could one rail with such an 

 unspeakably eager tutor. I am getting now so that I know 

 several of the fairies by name and of course they have 

 always known me for the great blundering human that 

 I am. 



Many fairy things are still dark to me, and among others, 

 I have not yet been able to find out much about the fairy 

 calendar. It is very easy to see that the Little People love 

 the early simrise and the twilight and the high midnight, 

 which is of course their high noon. All the fashionable fairy 

 weddings take place at high midnight. This much I have 

 learned for certain, but I do not believe that they have days 

 of the week or perhaps know one day from another. At 

 least, if they do I cannot find out which is their Sunday, 

 because they do not all seem to go to church on the same 

 day. Perhaps the Mohammedan fairies put on their Turk's 

 Caps and go to the fairy mosque on Friday just as if they 

 were Httle djinns in Mecca, while others put off their church 



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