For I have been to Fairyland!”
Soon every little girl in town was saving paper, and pencils and strings, and I think the Fairies must often have dropped things down to them from their gay balloons, for the children wore happy smiles and talked in a fairy language.
They sang fairy songs too,
“Think, before you throw away,
That’s what all the fairies say,
The Thrifty Fairies wear a smile,
And that’s what makes their life worthwhile.”
Little Girl Throw-Away became a very thrifty child and sometimes she talked in fairy rhymes.
“I’m very glad the fairies came,
And played with me a pleasant game,