"Where did you think they all come from ?--all the stories down there ?" She pointed downwards in the direction of the stair and the great hall.

"Why, here I have been for--no, it would frighten you to tell you how long, by your counting, I have been up here at my spinning.

I spin the round of the clock at this window, then I turn my wheel--to get the light, you see--and spin the round again at the other.

If you saw the tangle it comes to me in! And the threads I send down! It is not _often_ such little people as you come up here themselves, but it does happen sometimes.

And there is plenty ready for you--all ready for the wheel." "How wonderful!" said Hugh.