Fig.95 - Five living Fairies.
Perhaps you will want the teacher to require each pupil to sing a little song or recite a short verse. When a fairy does that, he moves forward in front of the others, and stays in that place until he has finished. Here is a pretty verse for a flower-capped fairy to recite:
"I wonder what the Clover thinks,
Intimate friend of the Bobolinks,
Lover of Daisies, slim and white,
Waltzer with Buttercups at night.
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Oh, who knows what the Clover thinks?
No one! Unless the Bobolinks."
Sweet Pea—the Peacock
You use a little pretended magic when you turn a sweet-pea blossom into a peacock, and that makes it seem more mysterious and more interesting. It doesn't take a second but while you are doing it you must repeat this transformation rhyme:
"Sweet Pea, Sweet Pea,
Your petals unlock.
I turn two down,
And you're a peacock."