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The Counterpane Fairy by Katharine Pyle
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Then the rainbow children gathered about the bed and began talking to
the child, but Teddy could not understand what they said to it. The
little child on the bed seemed to understand them though, and it smiled
and tried to nod its head.

"Come soon! Come soon!" cried the little children, waving their hands to
it as they moved away, and the eyes of the child on the bed followed
them wistfully, as though it were eager to follow.

Teddy and Ellen still went with the other little children, and a moment
after they were out on the rainbow bridge again, high up above the
world, but they were alone, for the little strange children were gone.

Ellen stood still and drew a long breath. "Oh! wasn't that lovely?" she
sighed. "I wonder where it was!"

"I know where it was!" cried Teddy suddenly. "I remember now, for I saw
a picture of it in one of papa's magazines. That was a hospital, Ellen."

"A hospital!" cried the little girl.

"Yes, a hospital."

Ellen did not say anything for some time, but at last she drew another
deep breath. "Well, if that's a hospital I shouldn't mind going to a
place like that," she said.

The rainbow had faded away, and Teddy was back in the great high-post
bedstead again, with the silk coverlet drawn up over his knees, and the
Counterpane Fairy still sitting on top of the hill. Teddy lay looking at
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