“Little pennies twenty-three,
Will you buy a top for me?”
He put his hand up to his ear to listen.
Sure enough, again he heard, “pitter, patter, pitter, patter” and up came Fairy Sing-Song, singing,
“All I need is a musical top,
That will spin, and spin and never stop.”
As Little Boy counted out his twenty-three pennies she went off singing,
“When anything you want to know,
To the enchanted staircase go.”
Little Boy sighed after the Fairies left him and he went out and sat down on his own staircase saying,