It was a magic soda fountain, as the children soon found out, and they could have all the soda water they wished at any time.

In another room were two little snow white beds.  These belonged to them, Sally Migrundy told the children.  As you have probably guessed, the magic cottage took care to make everything comfortable for those who came inside.

And when Sally Migrundy had shown the children their pretty bed room she took them to the dining room and there they found a table which had everything nice to eat upon it.  And so the children ate and ate and ate, for the magic table knew just what the person wished for who sat at it.  So you may be sure there were plenty of cookies and ice cream and candies and golden doughnuts and everything.

So the two little orphan children lived all the time with Sally Migrundy.  And each morning when they tumbled, laughing and shouting, out of their little snow white beds, they found underneath a new present.  So each morning they had a new toy to play with, for the magic beds knew just what a child would like most each day.

Sally Migrundy was very, very glad the children had come to live with her, so she wrote more notes and sent them down the singing stream, and more and more children came until Sally Migrundy’s house was very, very large inside, but still the same tiny little cottage on the outside.  The singing and happy laughter of the children echoed through the whispering forest all day, and the ground about the cottage was filled with toys and playthings,—­merry-go-rounds, sliding boards, sand piles, hundreds of sand toys, and play houses filled with beautiful dolls and doll furniture.

There was a roller coaster which knew just when to stop and start so that none of the children could ever hurt themselves upon it, and a little play grocery, a little play candy store, and a little play ice cream parlor so that the children could go there at any time and get cookies and candy and ice cream whenever they wished.  You may be sure it was a very happy place to live and the children made Sally Migrundy very happy.  At first the creatures who lived in the whispering forest were surprised to hear the happy laughter and to see so many children playing about, but they soon grew accustomed to the children and came right up to the grocery and candy store and ice cream parlor to be fed.

Each year Sally Migrundy sends happy-hearted invitations floating down the stream and more orphan children come to live with her.  However Sally Migrundy’s tiny cottage is just the same tiny cottage on the outside.  But when once you crawl through the tiny door, you look upon rows and rows of little rooms, each having one or more little snow white beds in it.

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And, while Sally Migrundy remains a tiny little lady only two feet high, she has as much happiness inside as if she were as large as a great big mountain, for as you have probably also guessed, she is a fairy and can have as much room inside for happiness as the little magic cottage could have room inside for all the happy children.