Who will thread the needle for me?”
It was a tiny needle of course, but Little June had bright eyes and she threaded it while the Fairy sang,
“A rat, a tat, tat, a rat, a tat, too,
I make silver slippers with buckles new.”
Then June knew that she was talking to one of the Fairy Shoemakers and she said,
“Oh Fairy Shoemaker if you choose,
Could you make me slippers or shoes?”
The Fairy pretended he did not hear, but he blew a silver whistle, and four and twenty little Fairy Shoemakers came, with their four and twenty little needles and one after another, they asked the little girl to thread them.
As they hopped about her, she never dreamed that they might be measuring her feet for a pair of slippers.