The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1868-07-03
FAIRY STORIES FOR LITTLE FOLKS.
THE sELF-wILLEp PRINCESS.

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There was once a princess who had q
| proud and violent temper, and who
made everybody about her, in conse-
| quenee, very unhappy whenever she
| failed in anything size undertook, oI
| grandmother reproved her without sue
| cess.
| Atlast. one day, the fairy said to her
in fit of anger. 3iz#3
"yery well, Princess; since instruc-
tion has no effect on you, desire that
he lceforward you shall succeed in what
ever you undertaken f
~ ask nothing more," said the Prin
cess; laughing loudly; and to begin
with, mean now to open that mystic
| rious black box, into which my father
| has never permitted me to look"
SO saying, she went to the mantle,
| and was taking down her fathers god
en- key, when her fother entered the
| room. s. -
| "What are you doing with my key?"
| he asked, angrily.
81 am going TO open your black box,'
answered the Princess, boldly.
The King, on hearing this, was very
angry; but when he attempted to re-
prove the Princess, for some mysterious
reason he could not say a word; and the
Princess, preceiying that the fairy's
spelllwas working, opened the box be-
fore his eyes.
Something sprang out and gave her a
furious box on the ear.
"Ah, daughter, you have ruined us
all !" said the father in lamentable
voice. This is the hideous goblin whom
contrived to shut up here, and whom
| you have now released"
The Princess for moment, knew not
what to say, for she had never seen
such hideous creature as the little
black figure perchcd on the box; but re-
collecting the fairy's decree:
81 am to have success in whatever
untertake,n said she. $50 goblin get
back into your box"
"With pleasure /" answered the hor-
rible creature; and, jumping into the
box the lid snapped; but he had taken
something with him: what do you think
it was? NVhy,t King, the court, the
palace, everything but the Princess
How he had done it, the Princess could
not tell, but they were all gone and she
was alone. sa
Not Knowing what to do, she began
to walk on, she hardly knew where, till
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to little house all by itself.
"I.et me in,n saidth Princess, knock
ing; but she heard nothing Then she
knocked again; but still there was no
answer. ~ atz7 i51H=i
I'll will enter" said the Princess to
herself; and as she said that the door
flew open. There was q fire on the
hearth, and near it sat an old woman.
stYou are welcome said the old wo-
man. "You must now bake my bread
and spin my flax for me-"
So the Princess rolled up her sleeves
and began to knead the old woman's
dough and spin her flax. She rose ear
ly Ill the morning, and went to the bed
late at night, for there was so much
bread to bake and flax to spin that she
had not time to rest. AT last, she made
up her mind TO run away, but she could
find neither door nor window. She
was not discouraged, however, for she
thought, am always to succeed; and
by -and-by she spied little step.
1--WE will see where this leads to, ,'she
thought. ie 5i7fg.i -
So She went up, and there was anoth-
er. She went up that and found an
other and anotheF. In this way she
walked for whole week, till she began
to think that she was going up a noun
tain. Finally she came to a prodigious
step. She tried to get up, and then she
tried again, and, as usual, 81 will sue
ceed !"she said to herself. AT the same
moment she stepped up, and found her
self right on the tip-end of the horn of
the new moon. Oh, then sue was
frightened.
s'Fairy, fairy, save me =" she cried
ssI'le more succeed the worse H."
81 am glad you have found that out ~
answered the tairy, picking her up and
carrying her back 20 the King, her
father, who was not in the goblin's box
after all. And let us hope, after this,
that our Princess was not quite SO fond
of her own way.