IF YOU MEET A FAIRY

If you meet a fairy

Don’t run away;

She won’t want to hurt you,

She’ll only want to play.

Show her round the garden,

Round the house too,

She’ll want to see the kitchen

(I know they always do).

Find a tiny present

To give her when she goes,

They love silver paper

And little ribbon bows.

I knew a little girl once

Who saw twenty-three

Playing in the orchard

As jolly as could be.

12They asked her to dance with them

To make a twenty-four;

She ran to the nursery

And hid behind the door.

Hid behind the nursery door—

(What a thing to do!)

She grew up very solemn

And rather ugly too.

If you meet a fairy

Remember what I say,

Talk to her nicely

And don’t run away.

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