ite doves flew circling about them. Then they told
each other how sorry they were that they had quarrelled, and that they
would never do it any more, and then they kissed again.

"And you may have the golden chain, Starlein," said Silverling.

"No, no! you must keep it," said Starlein.

"Oh, I know what we'll do!" cried Silverling; "we'll give it to this
little boy, because if it hadn't been for him we wouldn't have found
each other."

"Oh, yes!" said Starlein.

But Teddy held up his hand--"Hush!" he whispered; "don't you hear it?"

Then they all listened, and sweeter and clearer than ever before they
heard the voice of the singing fountain in the beautiful garden.

"It is the fountain!" cried Starlein and Silverling, half fearfully.

They each caught Teddy by the hand, and all ran down the hall together,
and the very first corner that they turned they found themselves at the
door of the garden.

The wind was blowing the lilies, the fruit on the wonderful trees shone
and glistened in the sunlight, and the fountain--ah! the fountain was no
longer singing, for the music-box in the nursery had run down.

Teddy looked about him. Instead of the garden there was the flowery
India-room. The clock ticked, the fire crackled;--he was back in bed
once more, and he heard mamma speaking to Hannah in the hall outside, so
he knew she was home again.

"And that is the end of that story," said the Fairy of the Counterpane.

CHAPTER FOURTH. THE MAGIC CIRCUS.

TEDDY was still in bed, though the doctor had said that very soon he
might have the big chair wheeled up to the window and sit there awhile.
Now he was propped up against the pillows playing with the paper circus
his mother had brought to him the day before.

His little cousin Harriett had come in yesterday to spend the afternoon
with him, and together they had cut out the figures--the clown, the
ring-master, the pretty lady on the white horse, the acrobat on his
coal-black steed, and all the rest.

This morning he had put some large books under the bedquilt, and
smoothed it over them so as to make a flat plane, and was amusing
himself setting the circus out, and arranging his soldiers in a long
procession as if they were the audience coming to see it.

He seemed so well entertained that his mother said she would go over to
the sewing-room for a little while to run up some seams on the machine.

When Teddy was left alone he still went on playing very happily,