DOROTHY. ; 35

“Then why don’t. you? Why don’t you?” clamored a
chorus of voices. “If you should, you ought to, and if you
‘ought to, why don’t you? Smile! smile!” they said.

Dorothy was really quite frightened at the confusion, and
felt like anything but smiling; but they insisted so sharply
that she finally gave a faint little smile.

“T wouldn’t say that again,” said her friend, gently.
“You see it is not just correct, and nothing disturbs these
people like incorrectness.”

Dorothy looked a little ashamed, and said she would try to
remember, for. she wanted them to like her.

Just then it was perfectly silent in the room.

“Why, what is the matter?” asked Dorothy.

~ “They have all come to a full stop,” said her friend.
“ Don’t you see it?”

Dorothy looked up and saw a perfectly round ball, around
which all the people in the room were gathered. “That
means it is over for to-day,” said ker guide, “ and we must
go.” .

So they passed out the door, and down the street of
Fancy, and over the river Slumber, out of the town of Think-
Thought, back to Dorothy’s own home, where the Dream
Fairy softly kissed her on each eyelid, and left her sitting in
her little chair rubbing her eyes.

“Oh, mamma!” she cried, “here you are. How long you
have been gone! I have been so far since I saw you!”