"What did I dream?" asked Harriett.

"Why, you dreamed about the soap-bubbles and me; didn't you?"

"How did you know I dreamed that?" asked Harriett.

Then Teddy told her all about standing by the lake and seeing the dreams
go past, and how he had shut the ugly one up in the toy-closet.

Harriett listened with great interest. "Wasn't that a funny dream?" she
cried when he had ended.

"A dream!" said Teddy. "Why, that wasn't a dream, Harriett. That's the
story the Counterpane Fairy showed me. And don't you know you did dream
about the bubbles?"

Harriet was silent awhile as if pondering it, and then she said, "My
canary-bird flew away this morning."

"Who let it out?" asked Teddy, with interest. "Did you?"

Harriett hesitated. "Well, I didn't exactly let it out," she said. "I
guess I forgot to close the door after I cleaned its cage." Then she
added hastily: "But mamma hung the cage outside the window, and she says
she thinks maybe it'll come back unless someone has caught it."

Teddy wanted to hear a great deal more about the canary, but Harriett
said she must go now, so he was left alone again to play with his toys.

After dinner his mother went down-town to buy a present for Harriett,