THERE were once two little white rats who lived in a hutch with wide bars. They had plenty of soft to sleep in, and bread-and-milk at the proper times. But they were dull, for they never saw the world, and they had nothing to talk of in the long winter evenings. One winter day a Fairy knocked at their door.  
“I am cold and hungry,” she said, “and Fairyland is a long way off; I can never get there in this snowy weather.”
 
“Come in,” said Mrs. Whiterat, and the Fairy in through the bars. Mr. Whiterat gave the Fairy some bread-and-milk, and Mrs. Whiterat sat close beside her in the hay—so that soon the Fairy felt quite warm and again. And she with the white rats all the winter, and they were all three as happy as could be.
 
Then when spring came, and the daffydowndillies were waving their yellow heads in the sun, the Fairy said: “I must go home now. You have been very good to me. You may have three wishes.” And she waved her little............