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 Faunus has told it to us. You are a girl and so you do not mind being a child for ever, but we are sorry—sorry for ourselves." Golden Hood took a hand of each and went with them toward the tree that was before the house of the Old Couple.

Jack Sprat, Jack Snipe, and Jack Homer were sent to Old Janus where he sat in his doorway, to ask him to come to supper at the Old Couple's House; Jack and Jill, Jumping Joan, and Jack Nicker went with them. Perrie and Merrie and Dixie were sent to ask Faunus. The baker's thirteen children, boys and girls, went to Silvanus, and the rest of the children, with Golden Hood, went amongst the trees to find Picus the Woodpecker. Baucis and Philemon wanted Valentine and John Ball to fetch Mars, but the two boys sat there, sad and lonely, not harkening to what was said to them.

Then the Jacks with Jill and Joan (they were all sent to him because their names began with