` Not at all , ' cried a glow-worm ; ` if she were to wake without seeing a night-light she might be frightened , so I shall be her night-light . ' ` Wait one moment , ' said a china merchant , ` and I shall make you a saucer . ' Now , alas ! it was absolutely finished . Oh , dear no ! ` Gracious me ! ' cried a brass manufacturer , ` there 's no handle on the door , ' and he put one on . An ironmonger added a scraper , and an old lady ran up with a door-mat . Carpenters arrived with a water-butt , and the painters insisted on painting it . Finished at last ! ` Finished ! how can it be finished , ' the plumber demanded scornfully , ` before hot and cold are put in ? ' and he put in hot and cold . Then an army of gardeners arrived with fairy carts and spades and seeds and bulbs and forcing-houses , and soon they had a flower-garden to the right of the verandah , and a vegetable garden to the left , and roses and clematis on the walls of the house , and in less time than five minutes all these dear things were in full bloom . -LSB- Illustration : Shook his bald head and murmured , ` Cold , quite cold ' -RSB- Oh , how beautiful the little house was now ! But it was at last finished true as true , and they had to leave it and return to the dance . They all kissed their hands to it as they went away , and the last to go was Brownie . She stayed a moment behind the others to drop a pleasant dream down the chimney . All through the night the exquisite little house stood there in the Figs taking care of Maimie , and she never knew . She slept until the dream was quite finished , and woke feeling deliciously cosy just as morning was breaking from its egg , and then she almost fell asleep again , and then she called out , ` Tony , ' for she thought she was at home in the nursery .
As XXXXX made no answer , she sat up , whereupon her head hit the roof , and it opened like the lid of a box , and to her bewilderment she saw all around her the Kensington Gardens lying deep in snow .
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