“I need a Birthday Cake I fear,
My birthday comes but once a year.”
The Fairies had always been so good to Little Boy that he emptied his pockets of the pennies he had saved for his own Birthday Cake, and Fairy Good-Cheer went off singing,
“When anything you want to know,
To the enchanted staircase go.”
Little Boy saved up his pennies again for a week and a day and said,
“Little pennies round and bright,
Will you buy me candles for a light?”
Before the pennies could answer a word, “pitter, patter pitter, patter,” was heard on the staircase and up came Fairy Light-Heart saying,