[Illustration]

"But won't your mamas and daddies be worried because you have been away
from home so long?" Sally Migrundy asked.

"We are orphans," the children said.

Then Sally Migrundy kissed them and asked them into her tiny cottage.

The door was so small the children had to get down upon their hands and
knees to crawl through. But when they got inside they were surprised to
find that the rooms were very large. In fact, Sally Migrundy's living
room was larger inside than the whole little cottage was on the outside,
for, as you have probably guessed, Sally Migrundy's cottage was a magic
house.

And in one corner of the living room there was a queer stand with a
silver stem sticking up through the center, and the stem curved over and
down towards five or six little crystal glasses.

It was a magic soda fountain, as the children soon found out, and they
could have all the soda water they wished at any time.

In another room were two little snow white beds. These belonged to them,
Sally Migrundy told the children. As you have probably guessed, the
magic cottage took care to make everything comfortable for those who
came inside.

And when Sally Migrundy had shown the children their pretty bed room