“If you go up this staircase as like as not
You’ll get to the bottom instead of the top.”
THEY LOOKED UP AND SAW A CUTE LITTLE HOUSE IN A TREE AND AN OLD MAN STOOD AT THE DOOR ([See page 71])
Little Boy chuckled as he rattled the pennies in his pocket and said happily,
“Little pennies, dimes will make,
Soon I’ll buy my Birthday Cake!”
Before the pennies could be changed into dimes or answer a word, and before Little Boy could get into bed, (for it was his sleepy time) “pitter, patter, pitter, patter” was heard on the staircase and up came Fairy Good-Cheer, saying,