"Oh, yes, little girl!" said the Fairies. "They shine down on us every night. Come and dance with us to-night.

We shall help you to find the pretty stars." So the little girl danced with the Fairies. She danced all night but the stars did not come to her.

She did not know what to do and the Fairies did not know what to do.

At last they said, "We shall send you to somebody who can help you more than we We shall send you to Four-Legs."

can.

Now Four-Legs was a horse.

Four-Legs took the little girl to No-Legs-
At-All.

No-Legs-At-All was a big, big fish.

The fish took her to the stairs that have no

steps.

These stairs were far out on the water.
They were the shining rainbow.

No Legs-At-All told the little girl that the stairs would take her to the stars.

The little girl tried and tried to go up the

stairs.

But they had no steps, you know, and they were very hard to climb.

She had gone up only a little way, when— thump! thump! down she fell.

When she opened her eyes, she lay on the floor of her pretty room.

She had tumbled out of bed.

The stars were still up in the sky.
The Fairies had gone away.

Four-Legs had gone away.
No-Legs-At-All had gone away.

She could not find the stairs that have

no steps.

“Oh, what a very queer dream!" said the little girl.

"Without going, you can get nowhere."

THE FOX THAT LOST HIS TAIL

A Fox was caught in a trap one day.
When he got out he found that his tail

was gone.

This made him so ashamed that he did not want to live.

"I will get all the other Foxes to cut their tails off, too," he said to himself.

"Then I shall not care if I do not have a tail."

So he called the Foxes together.

He said to them, "Tails are of no use

to Foxes.

See, I have cut my tail off.

Why don't you all cut your tails off?

I am sure you would all be much happier without them."

"Ah, my good friend," said one of the Foxes, "If you could get your tail on again,

you would not be telling us to cut ours off."

--Æsop

Why don't you cut your tails off?