about, but they soon grew accustomed to the children and came right up
to the grocery and candy store and ice cream parlor to be fed.

Each year Sally Migrundy sends happy-hearted invitations floating down
the stream and more orphan children come to live with her. However Sally
Migrundy's tiny cottage is just the same tiny cottage on the outside.
But when once you crawl through the tiny door, you look upon rows and
rows of little rooms, each having one or more little snow white beds in
it.

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And, while Sally Migrundy remains a tiny little lady only two feet high,
she has as much happiness inside as if she were as large as a great big
mountain, for as you have probably also guessed, she is a fairy and can
have as much room inside for happiness as the little magic cottage could
have room inside for all the happy children.

One day the man who lived upon the hill where the spring bubbles up from
the ground and makes the beginning of the singing stream said to his
wife: "Mother, I will follow the stream and see where it leads to!" So
he started down the stream and walked and walked and walked until the
stream took him down through the whispering forest clear down to the
sea.

Then he turned around and walked back up the stream from the ocean--up
through the whispering forest until he came again to his home at the top
of the hill.

"I followed the stream down through a great whispering forest, mother,"