The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1881-05-04
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AFalry story. tor LlttIe I.oll.s.
BY AN OLD FASHIONED FE1Iow.

The Princess lngraciosa, (Which
name means sUngracious, wasone
ofthe loveliest in the world. She
had,p said the poets of the kingdom,
"a skin creamy and satin.like as a
lily, lips like the heart Of a rose, q
sblushiliks that Of a sea-shell; eyes
like the blue ofpansies, snd.hairlike
sunbeafns.n ss -
One wrote verses to the bridge of
her nose, another praised her eye,
brossi but not one of then, said q
word about the deep scowl ia the
middle pf her forehead The poet
who had dared to mentioH this only.
sblemIA il her bes1ty y,Msgla ipSallis
'bly have gone without his dinnee sot
"a year to come. I
Mirrors; however, viii tell the
truth; and the Princess was contin-
uallS sending east, west, north and
south, for a cnre fof a scowl, till Lone
day there came an old woman to the
palace gate.
81 want to see the. Princess"
squeaked she.
go away, you old witch,0 cried
the guard, -.
But the. Princess called out of the
window, "Eet her come in. Who
knows but she has something to cure
my scowl?"
Then the Lord High Fiddlestick
jumped up, and said he, "Your Roy.
al Highness-pray consider, your
Royal Highness. Take time to re.
feet, your Royal Highness. Pray
consider that she is an old woman,
which io very bad thing, your Roy.
al Highness; and poor old woman,
which isstillworse, your Royal High.
ness."
"Nonsensel" cried the Princess, and
turned up her. nose. The moment
the guard saw her nose turned up,
they opened the gates; and the old
woman walked into the hall, where
the Princess lay on a green and gold
sofa, kicking over her maids ofhonor,
who knelt before her, whenever they
gaped, and trying, with a saucer of
chalk and cream, 10 rub the scowl
out Of her forehead.
"Have you got anything to cure
my scowl2" asked the Princess.
"No," said the woman; "and there
is only one person in the world who
has"
"Who is it? Where is it? My Lord
High Fiddlestick, order a hundred
thousand soldiers 10 go and get it at
once" cried Ingraciosa.
"Your whole army can't get it,
Princess" said the old woman. eff
you really wish it, you must go your
self; for it is in Fairy-lsnd, and Lily,
Queen Of the Fairies, is the only one
who can give it to you"
"And how can l get to Fairy-land?"
asked the Princess.
$50 to the first brook, drop rose
and q diamond in the water, and say:
All kind powers lend your hand,
To help me on to Fairy-land.'
Then you will see road open, plain.
and broad before you. That is the
way to Fairy-land."
"Good!" said the Princess. "My
Lord High Fiddlestick, lock up the
old woman. If she speaks the truth
she shall be made First Lady in
Waiting. If she lied, she shall lose
her head"
But no sooner did the Lord High
Fiddlestick lay his hand on the old
woman, than she went up the Chin
ney with such breeze, that she
knocked the Lord High Fiddlestick
down. At that, the Princess was in
such rage, that she kicked over ev-
cry one of the maids of honor, and
threw her saucer Of cream at the
Lord High Fiddlestick's head; but as
that didn't bring the old woman
back, she started off the next morn.
ing to find Fairy.land, to the joy Of
the Court, who hoped that she might
never come back.
Arrived at the brook, she dropped
the rose and diamond in the water,
and said:
"All kind powers lend your hand,
To help me on to Fairy.land."
And at once, as the old woman had
said, stretched away before her a
broad road, leading up, up, until it