now, I'm well now,
and don't need them any more."

"That's a very good idea," said mamma, looking pleased. "You may choose
the ones you will give her, and perhaps papa will leave them with her
when he goes out for a walk this afternoon."

"Well," cried Teddy, eagerly, "I think I'll give her the Ali Baba book
and Robinson Crusoe, and I think, maybe, I'll give her Little Golden
Locks too."

Mamma brought the books, and they tied them up in a neat package, and
just as they finished there was a little rattle of china outside the
door, and in came Hannah with Teddy's luncheon, and a great yellow
orange that Aunt Pauline had sent him.

After luncheon mamma made Teddy lie down for a while to rest. The
Venetian shutters were drawn, so that all the room was dimly green, and
then mamma and papa went out and left him alone.

Teddy lay there for what seemed to him a long time. The house was very
still, and the afternoon sun shone in through the slats of the shutters
in golden chinks and lines.

Teddy wondered where mamma was, and why she didn't come back, for it
seemed to him that he had been alone almost all the afternoon, though
really it had not been for long.

Presently he heard someone humming cheerfully back of the counterpane
hill, and as soon as he heard it he felt sure that the Counterpane Fairy
must be coming.

Sure enough in a few minutes she appeared at the top and stood looking
down at him with a pleasant smile. "Oh, Mrs. Fairy, I knew that was
you!" cried Teddy.

"Did you?" said the fairy, sitting down on top of his knees. "And then
did you think, 'Now I shall see another story'?"

"Oh, yes!" cried Teddy, eagerly. "I hoped you would show me one."

"Then I suppose I'll have to," said the fairy. "And what square shall it
be this time?"

"There's one close by you," said Teddy, "and it's most every color, like
a rainbow. Will you show me that story?"

"Yes," said the fairy, "I'll show you that. Now fix your eyes on it."
Then she began to count.

"FORTY-NINE!" she cried.

* * * * * * * *

Teddy and little Ellen McFinney were running along, hand in hand, over a
rainbow that stretched across the shining sky like a bridge. The clouds
above them shone like opals, and far, far below was the green world,
with shining rivers, and houses that looked no larger than walnuts.

"Can't we run fast?" said Teddy. "I think we go as fast as an express
train; don't you, Ellen?"

"I know a fast