The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-12-13
Corner for Children.

! back again, and Mary Emma found her.
self on the back of her fairy gedmother's
neck. Get off the back of my neck at
| once!' cried the fairy goGmother GROSSLY,
for she was very tired from being a hi
cycle. you ought to be ashamed of
yourself-a great, big girl like you sitting
on the back of an old lady like me. Sit
on the back of your own neck, If you
want tor Mary, Emma got down at
once. Then they found that they were
hungry. They sat down by the side of
the road and began to eat the lunch
that Mary Emma had in her basket. =
They ate and rested and rested and ate
until the lunch was all gone. Then Mary
Emma said: why don't you change this
lunch basket into a coach so we can get
in and ride? L don't like this walking
about while 1 am making my fortune"
The fairy godlnother said that she would
do that before Mary Emma could spell
Jack Robinson backward, in German,
and then she laughed so hard at Mary
Emma while she was trying to spell Jack
ROBINSON that way that she very alb
sentm1ndedly forgot what she was about
and at the same time that she turned
the lunch basket into a coach she turned
herself and Mary Emma into two SPLEEN.
did coach horses. Mary Emma was very
angry when she found herself harnessed
tC lHC COdCl anu uelplHS Her IdlrY goa.
mother draw it along the road. Nov,
just see what you've done,' she cried
Il do declare you ought to keep your
wits about you more. How are we ever
going to get out of. this?'' Just then the
prince of that country and a lot of cour-
tiers came along riding on oxen, for there
were no horses in that country.
When the prince saw. the two splendid
horses drawing this superb coach along
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seen any horses before, but he had seen
pictures of them in his natural history
book and SO, Of course, he knew what
they We're at once. He got in the coach
and drove the horses all the way to his
fathers palace. The horses were Just
as angry as they could be, and they told
the prince he was no gentleman to make
ladies' draw him along the road in a
coach like that. The prince said they
must not dare to talk that way to a real
prince, and that they were not ladies.
anyway, but only horses, and that if
they didn't behave themselves and trot
along nicely he would hit them with his
whip.
ooh, just you wait till we cross a run
ming brook, and if I don't change you
into last years minee pie you may have
my gold spectaclesH' said the fairy god
mother. The prince thought that per-
haps there might be something in that,
so he drove them over roads that did
not cross running brooks.
When they came to the palace the
king. the princes father, was as pleased
as he could be, and said that the prince
was just the dearest boy that ever lived
You can have the coach" he said, but
send the horses to my stable and give
them some oats"
Oats, indeed!' said Mary Emma. I'll
how
in my life, and, what is more, 1 am not
going to any old stable, either"
Then, as soon as they were unharness-
ed from the coach she and her fairy god
mother started to run, but just as they
had gone few steps they crossed
water pipe full of running water that led
to the palace, and they Immediately
turned into their proper shapes again.
Then the king was furious.
What do you mean he shouted, "by
changing yourself into something else
when you are the only horses I have?
never heard of such conduct! Change
yourself back into horses again at once!,-
Il will do no such thing said the
fairy godmother "If you think I am
going to live in a stable and eat oats you
are very much mistaken
Seize them and cast them into the
deepest dungeen!'' cried the king to his
army. The army got ready to seize
them, ard then Mary Emma and her
fairy godmother were frightened almost
to death.
81 guess maybe we had better change
back to horses after ALL said the fairy
godmother.
81 guess maybe we had, said Mary
Emma. So, just as the army was about
to seize them the fairy godmother waved
her wand. but she did it so absent
mindedly that instead of changing her