Each time when any one answered correctly, down floated a plate of Fairy food smoking hot.
To the surprise of all, Tommy cried:
“Three times seven is twenty-one,
Really I do call this fun.”
Just as he was putting his fork into his plate a great cry arose.
“Your table now you understand,
But you cannot eat in Fairyland!”
In less than a twinkling of an eye he was whisked back home, and was sitting by the fire, but the Funny Fairy sat beside him, saying:
“If you had tasted Fairy food,
To come back home you never could,