Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-02-02
The Queen Of the Fairies.

1ue ldlc uuCueSS " UOTuOu, says al
English paper, taking an airing alone in
her carriage, in remote part of the Scot
fish highlands, observed at some dis
lance from the road neat cottage sur
rounded by garden. Her grace pulled
the check string, and asked the servants
to 60 round with the carriage to where
she desired them to stop, while she
crossed the moor to pay the cottage a
| visit. The duchess happened to wear a
pelisse trimmed with gold lace, and her
hat was ornamented with golden spang
les. A girl about twelve years old, the
only person IN the cottage, was spinning
at the wheel and singing merry strain.
AS soon as her eyes caught the figure of
the duchess approaching, the green dress,
the shining appearance of the hat, on
which the sun shone, the singularity of
such visitant in so lonely situation,
all so worked on the imagination of the
little girl that she verify believed the
| queen of the fairies had come to reveal
to her some fearful mystery of fate. In
great terror she escaped to back closet,
where, through small aperture, she
could see without being seen. The sup
apartment with curious eye, and then
seeing the wheel, bethought herself of
trying to spin. She gave the wheel sew
eral turns, but could not make toiera.
BILE thread, though she twisted up all the
carded wool she could find. As some
compensation for any injury her awk-
wardness might have occasioned, her
grace tied crown piece in handker-
chief that lay upon the table, fixed it to
spoke of the wheel, and departed.
The girl could not summon courage to
venture from her hiding-place before her
father and sister came in, nor till some
time after could they extract from her
an explanation of the extraordinary state
of perturbation in which they found her.
Their surprise was scarcely less than
hers when they were informed that
somebody who could be no other than
the queen of the fairies, for she was all
in green and gold, and shining bright as
the sun, had come into the house, and
seeing nobody there, had fallen to be-
witching the wheel which, AS sure as
fairies were fairies, would never 60 again.
"And see,' continued the young en-
eAuoAooI, putting " LILO ARCHAEOLOGICAL
tied to the spoke, something which she
had left"
The father united the handkerchief,
and the sight Of the sterling piece of
coin which ii contained soon dispelled
from his mind all suspicion as to the ter
restrial attributes of the lady who had
been honoring his cottage with visit.
The women of the cottage, however,
were of a very different opinion. With
them the lady could be no other than the
fairy queen, who must doubtless have
come to tell poor Isabel her fortune; the
spoiled thread was sign that the first
days of their life would be marked with
disappointment and sorrow, and the
crown piece tied in a handkerchief to
the spoke of the wheel betokened that
she would in the end arrive by honest in
dustry to wealth and comfort. Harmless
delusion! It lasted but for day. Sun.
day came, and the appearance of the
queen of the fairies, in the same dress a,
church as the duchess of the manor
convinced even Isabel that she had been
6eceive6