The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1903-01-19

ways making love to her, and the fairy
said that the real prince would lift the
princess out Of the dungeon and take
! her to beautiful palace. where her
every wish would be gratifed.
So the princess played and prayed
and hoped and was happy, as happy as
all little princesses should be, until one
day strange and very bad thing hap
pened
Through the door in the fat roof one
morning a. dictionary Of slang was
thrown down for the ogre's breakfast.
! The greedy man swallowed at 1t with
out looking at 1t, sputtered, choked.
gave a great bound of distress, and
flew Up threw the trapdoor. straight
into the sky above, and was never seen
or heard of again.
But the little princess was left alone
in the dungeon. In spite Of all her die
tionary friends she missed the poor old
ogre sadly. and whenever she asked
Mr.. Dictionary what they should play,
he responded, Tears" And real tears
fell from the lonely little princess eyes,
straight down on the dictionary's leath-
er coat
But she dashed away her tears and
scolded the poor old dictionary roundly,
and asked him why under the sun they
couldn't play merry-go-round. as they
had SO often done. For answer he
heaved his old leather covers and
opened all Of himself, and between the
leaves the dictionary fairy stepped out.
he - -
/ away very gently. and put her tiny
arms around, or part way around, the
slim neck Of the little maid. and told
her that she, the fairy was very I'M
happy, too, with the dictionary people
| Because" she said, the old dictiona-
ry just as good as calls me a meddler.
But because l have to live in the die
tionary all my life Is no reason why
you should stay In the dungeon to play
with me. I hate to have you go, but
am going to tell you how to get out of
this dungeon. You just tap on the
stone wall and say Imagination! three
times with your eyes tight shut. and
see what will happen
| The princess did as she was bid, and
when she opened her eyes, she found
that one of the huge stones had disap-
peared, and she poked her head
through the opening, and peered up a
| high round shaft which looked straight
! into the blue sky. And as she looked a
! prince came and looked down at her
straight into her eyes.
! She heard his voice, faint and far
away, saying: Come and look, my
comrades, two bits of the blue sky
have fallen down the shaft Of the dun
georl.''
| The princess drew her head back
| quickly, for she did not know the
prince was referring to her eyes; but
! she looked in vain for the bits of sky.
! Then the fairy, who knew all that had
/ happened, told the little maid to place
the dictionaries one above the other,
and to climb by them up the shaft out
of the dungeon.
| 1t was hard task, but the princess
persevered, and the dictionary in which
the fairy belonged she placed in the
very tip top. But when she looked
again to the top of the shaft she found
she was still too far down to climb out.
But just then the prince came again
and locked down the shaft, and he and
the princess just stared at each other.
Finally the prince said softly: "Prin-
cess, the bits of blue sky are your
eyes" But he did not call his COM
rades to look this time.
i He reached down his long silken sash
to the princess, and, bidding her hold
! fast to it, he lifted her out of the shaft
of the dungeon.
They were married when they were
grown, and the princess had every real
thing she wished, but she never ceased
! to love the dictionary people, and espec-
tally the dictionary fairy.-Boston Her.
! aid.