Dare ai n't no such ting as fairies . ' I was very much provoked . Of course , I knew there are no fairies ; but that need n't prevent my thinking there is . You know , teacher . But I tried again quite patiently . I said , ` Well then , Mary Joe , do you know what I think ? I think an angel walks over the world after the sun sets ... a great , tall , white angel , with silvery folded wings ... and sings the flowers and birds to sleep . Children can hear him if they know how to listen . ' Then Mary Joe held up her hands all over flour and said , ` Well , yous are de queer leetle boy . Yous make me feel scare . ' And she really did looked scared . I went out then and whispered the rest of my thoughts to the garden . There was a little birch tree in the garden and it died . Grandma says the salt spray killed it ; but I think the dryad belonging to it was a foolish dryad who wandered away to see the world and got lost . And the little tree was so lonely it died of a broken heart . '' `` And when the poor , foolish little dryad gets tired of the world and comes back to her tree HER heart will break , '' said Anne . `` Yes ; but if dryads are foolish they must take the consequences , just as if they were real people , '' said Paul gravely . `` Do you know what I think about the new moon , teacher ? I think it is a little golden boat full of dreams . '' `` And when it tips on a cloud some of them spill out and fall into your sleep . ''
`` Exactly , XXXXX .
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