“The very thing!” shouted the first dwarf.
So he opened a little door at the root of a maple tree, and called one of the children to him.
Then the other dwarfs said a magic verse, and whisk! the child was changed into a fairy and went up into the trunk of the tree!
So the dwarfs kept on, until all the children were changed into fairies and went to live in the trunks of trees.
Soon after this the Pied Piper and the dwarfs went away across the sea.
They rode on the Magic Carpet, and they forgot all about the children they had changed into fairies and shut up in the trees.
One day Prince Charming went into the woods.
He was looking for the Beautiful Princess.
He was tired, for he had walked a long way through the woods. He lay down under the tree, to rest.