So you must not play with him , or speak to him , or let him see you : but only keep him from being harmed . '' Then the fairies were sad , because they could not play with their new brother , but they always did what they were told . And their Queen floated away down the river ; and whither she went , thither she came . But all this Tom , of course , never saw or heard : and perhaps if he had it would have made little difference in the story ; for was so hot and thirsty , and longed so to be clean for once , that he tumbled himself as quick as he could into the clear cool stream . And he had not been in it two minutes before he fell fast asleep , into the quietest , sunniest , cosiest sleep that ever he had in his life ; and he dreamt about the green meadows by which he had walked that morning , and the tall elm-trees , and the sleeping cows ; and after that he dreamt of nothing at all . The reason of his falling into such a delightful sleep is very simple ; and yet hardly any one has found it out . It was merely that the fairies took him . Some people think that there are no fairies . Cousin Cramchild tells little folks so in his Conversations . Well , perhaps there are none -- in Boston , U.S. , where he was raised . There are only a clumsy lot of spirits there , who ca n't make people hear without thumping on the table : but they get their living thereby , and I suppose that is all they want . And Aunt Agitate , in her Arguments on political economy , says there are none . Well , perhaps there are none -- in her political economy . But it is a wide world , my little man -- and thank Heaven for it , for else , between crinolines and theories , some of us would get squashed -- and plenty of room in it for fairies , without people seeing them ; unless , of course , they look in the right place . The most wonderful and the strongest things in the world , you know , are just the things which no one can see . There is life in you ; and it is the life in you which makes you grow , and move , and think : and yet you ca n't see it . And there is steam in a steam-engine ; and that is what makes it move : and yet you ca n't see it ; and so there may be fairies in the world , and they may be just what makes the world go round to the old tune of `` C'est l'amour , l'amour , l'amour Qui fait la monde a la ronde : '' and yet no one may be able to see them except those whose hearts are going round to that same tune . At all events , we will make believe that there are fairies in the world . It will not be the last time by many a one that we shall have to make believe . And yet , after all , there is no need for that .
There must be fairies ; for this is a fairy tale : and how can one have a fairy tale XXXXX there are no fairies ?
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