they were fast asleep in the nests in the wood.

The Man-in-the-Moon winked at them three times, once with his right eye,
once with his left eye, then again with the right.

And the three happy children thought they heard him say three times:

"Back to bed, back to bed, back to bed!"

Then they heard the sound of bells. Seven times they sounded. It was from
the church over in the town,--the big white church with the long finger
pointing at the sky. And the Little-Clock-with-the-Wise-Face-on-the-Mantel,
answered back.

So they obeyed the old yellow Man-in-the-Moon and scampered like little
white mice back to bed.




EIGHTH NIGHT

THE PRETTIEST FAIRY STORY IN THE WORLD


"Tell me a story--a fairy story," said Jehosophat to his Mother.

The three happy children loved really true stories and fairy stories too.
Sometimes they wanted one, sometimes the other. Sometimes the Toyman
mixed his stories up so it was hard to tell which they were.