and then the other, and went to sleep.

"We will return," said Alice, and then the duck children hurried home, and
to-morrow night you shall hear about a magic trick and why the fairy
prince didn't turn that boy into an elephant or a lion. That is, if the
Thanksgiving turkey doesn't go to a football game.




STORY XVIII

THE FAIRY PRINCE DOES A MAGIC TRICK


One day, after they had been out roller skating, Lulu and Alice and Jimmie
Wibblewobble suddenly remembered that it was time they went back to the
woods to meet the fairy prince, who was to tell them why he didn't turn
that fisher-boy into a lion or an elephant. So they took off their skates
and hurried to the place, and by and by, after awhile, not so very long,
they got there. Then they stopped and looked around.

"Hu!" exclaimed Jimmie. "He isn't here. I _thought_ he was fooling us."

"Hush!" begged Alice. "He may be only hiding to test us, to see if we
really believe in him. He may appear any moment in a big balloon or on the
back of a great bird."

"Somebody's coming now," said Lulu, suddenly, for she heard a rustling in
the bushes. They all turned around, and whom do you think they saw coming