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Some peoples thinks they ain't no Fairies _now_ / No more yet! -- But they _is_, I bet! 'Cause ef / They _wuzn't_ Fairies, nen I' like to know / Who'd w'ite 'bout Fairies in the books, an' tell / What Fairies _does_, an' how their _picture_ looks, / An' all an' ever'thing! W'y, ef they don't / Be Fairies anymore, nen little boys / 'U'd ist _sleep_ when they go to sleep an' wont / Have ist no dweams at all, -- 'Cause Fairies -- _good_ / Fairies -- they're a-purpose to make dweams!
But they _is_ Fairies -- an' I _know_ they is! / 'Cause one time wunst, when its all Summertime, / An' don't haf to be no fires in the stove / Er fireplace to keep warm wiv -- ner don't haf / To wear old scwatchy flannen shirts at all, / An' aint no fweeze -- ner cold -- ner snow! -- An' -- an' / Old skweeky twees got all the gween leaves on / An' ist keeps noddin', noddin' all the time, / Like they 'uz lazy an' a-twyin' to go / To sleep an' couldn't, 'cause the wind won't quit / A-blowin' in 'em, an' the birds won't stop / A-singin' so's they _kin_. -- But twees _don't_ sleep, / I guess! But _little boys_ sleeps -- an' _dweams_, too. -- / An' that's a sign they's Fairies.