Here are the names of the little children who helped me so nicely by coming to Marjorie's birthday party and posing as her guests: Alice and Howard Bucquet, Caroline Kuhns, Barbara and Patrick Ford, Betty and Stephen Kline, Marie Madeleine Brandeis and Dietrich Haupt.
The only grown-up in the story, John's girl-fairy, is Miss Alice White. Miss White is such a busy star that I think I should thank her for stopping long enough from her work to be John's girl-fairy in the pages of this book. And I think I should thank all the rest of these good people, even if they are only little people, for they too, are busy. And it is sometimes hard to tear oneself away from the work of the world and walk into a fairy tale.
But these in the photographs did it. And that is what I am going to ask you, young readers, to do now. Come along! See if you can!
Madeline Brandeis.
UPPER LAKE KILLARNEY
Shaun O'Day of Ireland
PART I
CHAPTER I
ISN'T IT A GREAT WONDER?
The wee word "why"
Is a fairy gift
To little babes at birth,
It opens wide the wonder world
To every child on earth.