Tell me a story by Ennis Graham Author:Molesworth Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: voice called her by name. " Louisa, Louisa," it said. She did not feel at all frightened. She half raised herself in bed and exclaimed, " Who is speaking to me ?... more » what do you want ?" " Louisa, Louisa," the voice repeated, " would you like to be a queen ?" " Very much indeed, thank you," Louisa replied promptly. " Then rub your eyes and look about you," said the voice. Louisa rubbed her eyes and looked- about her to some purpose, for what do you think she saw ? All the white counterpane of her little bed was covered with tiny figures, of various sizes, from one inch to three or four in height. They were hopping, and dancing, and twirling themselves about in every imaginable way, like nothing anybody ever saw before, or since, or ever will again. " Fairies!" thought Louisa at once, and without any feeling of overwhelming surprise, for, like mostchildren, she had always been hoping, and indeed half expecting, that some day an adventure of this kind would fall to her share. "Yes, fairies," said the same voice as before, which seemed to hear her thoughts as distinctly as if she had spoken them; " but what kind of fairies ? Look at us again, Louisa." Louisa opened her eyes wider and stared harder. There were all kinds of fairies, gentlemen and ladies, little and big ; but as she looked she saw that every one of them, without exception, wore a curious sort of round stiff jacket, more like a little barrel than anything else. It gave them a queer high- shouldered look, very like the little figures of Noah and his family in toy arks; but as Louisa was staring at them the mystery was explained. A big, rather clumsy-looking gentleman fairy, stopped for a moment in his gymnastics, and Louisa read on the ledge round his shoulders the familiar words "Clark and Co.'s best six-...« less