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Updated: June 3, 2025
I can't begin to tell you how large it was; you 'd not believe me if I did. "This is very lovely," said Sweet-One-Darling, "but where are the little babies?" "Surely you did n't suppose you 'd find any babies here!" exclaimed the Dream-Fairies. "Why, in all this bright light the babies would never, never go to sleep! Oh, no; we 'll have to look for the babies on the other side of the Moon."
So she let the two little Dream-Fairies flutter across her shoulders and clamber up her cheeks to their proper places upon her eyelids. Gracious! but how heavy they seemed when they once stood on her eyelids! It was just all she could do to keep her eyelids open, yet Sweet-One-Darling was determined to be strictly neutral.
So they all got into a boat that had a sail made out of ten thousand and ten baby-spiders' webs, and away they sailed as merrily as you please. Sweet-One-Darling put her feet over the side of the boat and tried to trail them in the river, but the moonbeams tickled her so that she could n't stand it very long. And what do you think?
May be and it is quite likely that with all the other wonderful things she knew, Sweet-One-Darling understood about the arrangement that existed between the cricket and the Dream-Fairies. At any rate, just as soon as she heard that cricket give its signal note she smiled a smile of gratification and looked very wise, indeed as much as to say: "The cricket and I know a thing worth knowing."
But nobody can hide from the Dream-Fairies, and least of all could Sweet-One-Darling hide from them, for presently her laughter betrayed her and the two Dream-Fairies perched on her cradle one at each side and looked smilingly down upon her. "Hullo!" said Sweet-One-Darling, for she saw that her hiding-place was discovered.
As they sped along they told Sweet-One-Darling all about the wonderful things they saw and everything was new to Sweet-One-Darling, for she had never made any journeys before except in the little basket-carriage which Good-Old-Soul, her nurse, propelled every sunny morning up and down the street.
That 's how you came, little Our-Golden-Son, and it was very good of the Doctor-Man to bring you, was n't it?" Little Our-Golden-Son was much pleased with this explanation. As for Sweet-One-Darling, she was hardly satisfied with what the nurse had told. So that night when the fairies the Dream-Fairies came, she repeated the nurse's words to them.
"You have come earlier than usual," suggested Sweet-One-Darling. "No, indeed," answered Frisk-and-Glitter; "this is the accustomed hour, but the day has been so happy that it has passed quickly. For that reason you should be glad to see me, for I bring dreams of the day the beautiful golden day, with its benediction of sunlight, its grace of warmth, and its wealth of mirth and play."
"I saw you there a long, long time before the Doctor-Man brought you." "But I thought that the Moon was a big, round soda-cracker," said Sweet-One-Darling. That made the Dream-Fairies laugh. "And how big is the Moon?" asked Sweet-One-Darling. "Is it as big as this room?" "Oh, very, very much bigger," said the Dream-Fairies. "I guess it must be as big as a house," suggested Sweet-One-Darling.
"Of course we shall," said Sweet-One-Darling. "I might have guessed as much if I 'd only stopped to think." The Dream-Fairies showed Sweet-One-Darling how to get to the edge of the Moon, and when she had crawled there she held on to the edge very fast and peeped over as cautiously as if she had been a timid little mouse instead of the bravest Sweet-One-Darling in all the world.
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