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When you find the snow-white Cricket, all you need

Is a line that's made of cobweb—yes, indeed!

Do not let the Cricket go;

Hold it tight and say "Hello!"

In the hollow of a flower gone to seed.

It's a very simple thing to understand,

If you want to telephone to Fairy-land

Take a candle; go alone;

Find the Fairy Telephone—

But first have a snow-white Cricket in your hand.

"Hello! Hello! Is this the land of Fairies?"

"Hello! Hello!" A voice will come to you

From one whose eyes are blacker than blackberries—

"Hello! Hello!" Now talk an hour or two.

"Well," said Lulu, "that is certainly very nice. Now I shall always know how to talk to the Fairies over the really-truly Fairy Telephone; so that, good Queen, even although we are very far apart, I shall always call up and talk to you, no matter where I am, almost every day of my life."

"Thank you, my dear," said the Fairy Queen, "that will be very nice, and I do not want you to forget me. Now we will go and I will try to show you some more things about our country.

"Here you will see by the roadside many little houses like smith shops, with tiny white smoke coming out of each. This is where my 

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