As he looked into the grate he saw a red flame curl up, and up, and soon a Funny Fairy dressed in red and white jumped up on one of the logs and cried:
“You’re never going to pass your grade,
If you keep on like this, I am afraid.”
Tommy was just going to answer when the Funny Fairy jumped out of the fire and called:
“Number Fairy bright and airy,
By fire-light, come out to-night.”
Then, the Number Fairy came whisk! bound, out of the fire. She wore a black dress with white numbers upon it:
The numbers they went from her head to her toes
She was very learned as you may well suppose.
She shook her finger at Tommy and cried: