Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1855-02-08

on two little creatures in blue and green cloth
ing, with yellow hats, who talked and laughed
together. She could just hear what they said.
She picked up from their discourse that she was
being punished by the FAIRIES generally for hav-
ing turned her girlhood into manhood but par
ticularly for one act that had brought her roys-
tering ways painfully under the notice OF the
fairy queen. On certain festival occasion, a
grand fairy assembly had been held, u monster
orchestra was established in the wood. the queen
with her whole court was present, and the en-
tire fairy world was there collected, crowding
every flower with 50 much eagerness that the
more adventurous had ever climbed to the top
of the highest fox-gloves to laok down on the
imposing spectacle In the mids, of the music
the ground shook, and there was heard distant
thunder; directly afterwards the Amazon on
her great Barbary horse dashed through the
bushes. One hoof came down in the middle of
the orchestra, the other three came down among
the people, killing, crushing, breaking arms,
and l'gsso that the festival ground looked after
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vowed that she would tame Swanhilda Already
the fiiries were at work, eating her out of house
and home. Swanhilda, hearing all this turned
round in bed with great thump Did you
feel thatF said one Of the little creatures
Was not that an earthquakep The other Was
the cellarer who went occasionally to and fro
to fetch up wine. No., he said, that beast of
a girl must be awake and kicking about in her
bed Rut then,' said the other one, : | think
that she will get up and scold at US roundly.'
No, said the cellarer, 'our queen has taken
thought of that. IF she awoke shel was to be
tongue tiled and to lie awake till cockcrow look
ing at u.s. Fine amusement that would he,
Swanhlda grumblcd to herself. Il was right,
said the cellarer, laughing tremendously, the
beast is awake. Pretty manners, thought
Swanhlda. Il am beast, am | 1! Oh wish
l could speak. ........
'Ah, my young lady, said the cellarer. an
swering her thoughts, lit is well for our ears
that you cannot. You see,' he added to his
friend, the immense destruction of property she
has occasioned is not to be made good to US the
queen says, until this creature has married one
of her rejected suitors, and made handsome
presents to all the others. Before she can do
that she must catch fish for her living
A little before cockcrow the feasting ended
and the tables being broken up the iaries disap-
peared. At cockcrow Swanhilda fell asleep
fand Slept till noon. Then she got Up and went
to her washing stand. There was NO water in
the basin; and, falling at once into great rage
she called her maid. How is this! she said
to her. No water,' The maid was sure that
she had put in water, but she went for more.
Presently she returned looking much frightened.
3. There is no water, she said, lin the tub, none
in ii pump, none in the cistern. Swanhilda
thought directly of the FAIRIES, and said, Never
mind Get me my breakfast. | will take 4
sausage and two breasts of Pomeranan oose
Ola Miss the servant answered. there no
sausage, and no goose, and no food of any nj,
and every cask an the cellar is empty, and the
casks are rotten, and the furniture's gone out
Of the house, and the cattle out of the stalls,
and your Bar''ary courser gone, and the hay
is all mould in the manger, and the litter 8 rot
ten, and all the fruits gone off the trees, and
the trees are dead, and the grass and every bit
Ct the country round is withered up-only look
} 1 of the window, miss-and the servants have
al gone, and oh if you please, miss, am going
TOO. Swanhilda went out and found all was
tlue; the fairies had really consumed all her
substance. won t be forced into marrying,
she said 'und won't fish. | don't care know
what II do I'll starye myself. She kept to
this resolution for three days; but then starva'
ton became SO uncomfortable, that she went
out TO look for food
Everything was dry and barren, but there
was the castle lake and when she came to that
it WAS surprise to her to see how full of fish
it was, and how they leaped and swan together
at the surface. There was fshing-r,d close
by her, with hook ut the end Of the line, and
a worm already fixed upon it. She dipped il
into the luke and fish bit instantly. s.
threw the line down, and was carrying it homt
' the fish for her dinner, when it began suddenly
to smell SO detestably that she was forced te
throw it away.
'Ha, ha,' chuckled the little eellarer wht
was lounging upon moss rose close by, ant
drinking the maddest draughts out of small
cup borrowed from heath blossom. We know
how to tame you Now fish,
Swanhilda picked up the fshing-rod, anc
struck at the impertinent elf with all her might
Infamous imp she cried She knocked tn
rose to pieces, but the fairy had leapt off AM
fixed himself upon her nose. You have Il re
nArkably soft nose, you vxen, he observed
Now fish Do, my dear Swanhilda, take tn
rod, and while you are fishing will play yo
the most charming music Swanhida dashe
at him with her fingers, but he bit them.
WIS of no use to be ostinute; she was oblige
to fish, and while she fshed he sat astrde upo
her nose, and, beating time upon it with hi
heels, played half-a-dozen Instruments, and san
. song at the same time. In his song he bad
her put the fish into basket that lay at he
feet, wreathed about with flowers 1t was 500
full, and then she was forced to carry it to mai
ket. a.a.t"
} But if she was to 60 to market to sell fs
before all the world, she determined that sh
would at least disguise herself. So she wer
; first into the castle to look for some commo
clothes. No garment was left her but the on
, she wore, the grand velvet riding-hahit in whic
, she had bcen used to go.a hunting. She WI
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