The Fairies jumped about and formed a ring round him, shouting:
“Three, six, nine,
That is fine,
Twelve, fifteen, eighteen,
Time to be unseen!”
Then they began to sing the table to a little fairy tune and Tommy joined them.
Now, the most wonderful part of the most wonderful part of the story is yet to come.
In rolled a big, round table, and three times three chairs.
The fairies and Tommy sat down.
In the center of a table was a wee fairy, with a figure three on her cap. She waved her wand at each Fairy, and Tommy in turn, and called for, “3 times 3” and “3 times 6” and “3 times 11.”