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 see, the witches have lost their power and cannot hold you up. Well, when the witch found that the two friends could, nearly make her cry she was very frightened, and she said to herself: "I must do something for the poppy so that she can always be with her friend, because if I pass by when the poppy is dead, I shall certainly drop my tears, and that would never do."

So she waved her green wand over the poppy and changed her into a little red fairy.

"Now," she said, "you can live for ever with your friend. Goodbye, dear children," and she slipped away on the wings of the wind.