sha'n't," said the ugly dream. "She ain't going to have any
dream but me, and I'm going to look just as ugly as I can. I'm going to
do this way," and the naughty little dream put his thumbs in the corners
of his mouth, drawing it wide, and at the same time drew down the
outside corners of his eyes with his forefingers, just as Teddy had seen
the boys at school do sometimes. Then the dream hopped up into the air
and cut a caper. "Ho, ho!" he cried, "won't it be fun? You can come
along and see me frighten her, if you want to." This last he said to
Teddy.

Teddy thought him a very naughty, ugly-tempered little dream, but still
he went with him, wondering all the time how he could induce him to let
the pretty dream go to Harriett, and as they walked up the road together
the pretty dream still followed them, carrying her bunch of bubbles.

They went on and on, until they came to a place where the ground was
rough, and broken up with a number of black holes. The ugly dream went
from one to another of these, pausing, and laying his ear to their
edges.

"What are you doing?" asked Teddy.

"Hush! can't you see I'm listening?" said the dream crossly.

At last, after pausing at one of them, he turned to Teddy and nodded his
head. "This is it," he said; "this is where Harriett lives."

"Why, it isn't at all!" cried Teddy, indignantly. "My cousin Harriett
doesn't live in a hole! She lives in a great big house with doors and
windows."

"Well, anyway, this is her chimney," said the dream, "and it's the only
way to get into her house from here. If you want to come, come; and if
you don't want to, why, stay," and the dream sat down on the edge of the
hole.

Teddy hesitated. "If I went down that way, I think I'd fall and hurt
myself," he said at last.

"Pooh! No, you wouldn't if you took my hand," said the dream. "I always
go this way, and it's as easy as anything."

So Teddy sat down on the edge of the hole, and grasped the dream's
shadowy fingers in his. Then they pushed themselves off the edge, and
down they went through the darkness.

Teddy felt so frightened for a minute that he quite lost his breath, but
he held on tight to the dream's fingers, and soon they landed, as softly
and lightly as a feather, right in the nursery of Aunt Paulina's house,
and the pretty dream was still following them.

"And now begins the fun," whispered the dream.

The house was very still, for everyone was fast asleep. The moon shone
in