At that, all the children but Little Boy Blue sat down and began to throw pebbles into the brook and soon their heads went nid-nid nodding and they were fast asleep.
Fairy Moonlight sang:
“The hours come, the hours go,
The Sandman’s rocking to and fro.”
Sure enough, there was the sleepy old Sandman rocking to and fro in a hammock.
So He Fell Asleep
Little Boy Blue was so tired he crept in beside him and so he fell asleep right there on the road to Sleepy-Town.
The lights went out in the streets and houses one by one, and every one went nid-nid nodding.
“Tinkle, tinkle, tinkle,” rang a bell and Little Boy Blue looked about. The Sandman was gone. Fairy Sunshine cried: