peeped down at them from alxive. sometimes they would argue down below as to the lncrits of one or the other beauty•; then there was great splashing and disturbance in the waters, which xnrnsed the little fairies very much, and they would all shout as loudly as possible­ Goldfish, goldfish, living under the lake, who will the prize f„r beauty take? " Of course you may imagine that opinions on this point among the little goldfish differed very much, and yet there were soma days when they were absolutely unanimous, and thoso were the days when the beautiful fairy princess, Narcissa, came to the lake, and kneeling on one of the lily leaves, looked down into the clear waters, while she combed her golden hair and sang in the sweetest of voices­ " Goldfish. goldfish. tell me where Is the fairest of the fair?" Then all the little fish and all the little sprites would skip out of the water merrily, and sing with one Record­ Of beauteous fairies 'neath the skie%, Princes. .Narcissa takes the prize." And Narcissa would go home happy and proud, with her head held well erect, for all around her the birds and , IL beastswould do herhomage. Wherever she walked the little birds would flutter round her to whisper sweet words of praise in her ears; the little frogs and rabbits Would stop in their play to 1% itch her pass ; and all the / - little gnomes and grass elves would march before her in state, as if she L. , V, -c re a queen. Now I am sorry to . •av all this praise and admiration had a very bad effect on NarcSlit -n o, snore conceited every dad-, and, in conse;luen, o idler and more disagreeable at home, so that her father and mother were made quite unhappy by their daughter's vanity, till at last it became alm(~st ' unendurable. She used to go out morning, noon, silo, night, and sit for hours on the water-lily leaves,. looking at her own reflection in the water, and hearing till' waves, the winds, the flowers, the beasts, all murmur ; in concert : " Princess Narcissa is the most beautiful ,,f ' ~ all the fairies in the world 1 One day, when her poor fairy mother was thus left sitting all alone in her beautiful palace among the bulrushes, after seeing her daughter go off on her usual journey•, she suddenly caught sight, near the edge of the lake, of a lovely little cluster of forget-me-sots. So sweet and modest did the), look, and withal so exquisitely lovely in colour, that she sighed regretfully, and said, " Oh, how I wish I had another, a tiny blue-e)ed daughter, modest and sweet, who would be a comfort to me." Now the Fairy Queen, who always hears the wishes of all her subjects, heard the poor mother's cry, and shortly after presented her with a nice little daughter, with lovely golden curls all round her tiny head, and such beautiful blue eyes that looked so sweotfy out into the world, that her mother and fall 1 1 - r #%V--, n re almost beside them­ selves for joy, anil __ r.ai icd her " Forget-me­ not," because sh resembled those dainty little flower, the haughr, PrincessNarcissa did not take ve - much notice of her baby sister i.-- --.• at first; she was too much occul with ith herself and tier own beauty, invei.1- , ' ing now garments for her little pers, i, rind new jewellery for her hair. Si:, - ~~ used to tease and tonnent her occ, - 'A- sionally, though, especially when Forget - me - not began to grow up, compelling her to dress her hair, fasten her dress, and altogether using her as a sort of servant to help to administer to her own adornment. But Forget-me-not was so modest and unassuming, and really looked upon her older sister as a creature of such exquisite loveliness that she gladly (lid all that Narcissa wished, and even tried to invent all sorts of pretty new contrivances to further enhance tier beauty. This went on for some time; Forget-me-not was growing up very rapidly, and every day she seemed to grow in beauty, as well as in goodness ; her hair was now long and glistened like gold, her skin was fine and transparent, as only fairy skin can be, and her eyes were tenderer and bluer than the little flowers after whom she was named. Her father and mother were now perfectly happy, for their little daughter was all the comfort in the world to them. When Narcissa had finished her toilet in the morning, and gone off to the enchanted lake, followed by her crowd of admirers, little Forget-me-not would go about the house singing merrily, chatting to her father, and helping her mother to spin and sew. The little creature had never been outside her father's garden, she had never seen any one, except her father, and mother, and sister, so she really did not know how beautiful she was, for the latter had no eyes for any one save herself, and the former had such a dread and horror of vanity creep­ing up in their darling's heart, that they were particularly careful never to speak on the subject before her. One day, when Forget-me-not was running about in the garden, she saw a beautiful bright-eyed butterfly lying on the grass. She drew near on tip-toe to have a better look, when the butterfly spread out his wings and flew off to the other end of the garden. Forget-me-not ran after him, for she had never seen such a lovely creature before-all 1,11 1r and silver, with great dark spots, like eyes. Hardly had she, however, come near enough to him, r\ l:crr the butterfly again flew off; this time far to the other side of the garden gates. Forget-rile-not was tempted to follow him, and so she ran oil and on till she saw him apparently settle on a w titer-lily leaf, and then disappear front her View. Little Forget-me-not, who had now ~., reached the edge of the lake, was deter­inined to see where the beautiful - '-r butterfly had disappeared to, so, treading softly on the lotus and lily leaves, she s - it loked round her, and then into the clear ,,.,tars of the lake, but no butterfly could she urlY as slie was looking a whole crowd of little goldfish and water sprites (things she had never seen in all her life before) rose from out of the water, and, forming a circle round the leaf on which she stood, they bowed low before her, and sang in the sweetest chorus she had ever heard­ Forget-me-not, lovely blue-eyed Forget-ine-not, Fairest far of all the lot." She could hardly tear herself away from them, so beautifully did the), all sing, till finally a little goldfish swam quite close to her, and asked her if she would honour him by etting on his back, and allowing him to swim with her to sore, which she did, as she did not like to wound his feelings by • refusing so courteous an offer, but she felt very frightened at this altogether now mode of locomotion, and also very upset and shy at being suddenly so surrounded and admired by a crowd of unknown beings. When she got to shore she was still so nervous that she quite forgot to thank the goldfish and water sprites for their lovely music, and ran honlo as fast as her fairy lens could carry her, and into tier rnother's arms, who wits very much upset when she heard the whole story, for she felt that evil would cotno of this if Narcissa were to know. The nest clay Narcissa got up and dressed, or rather made Forget-me-not dress her as usual ; site was not yet tired of all the admiration her beauty always roused where­ ever she passed, and she still loved as clearly as ever to gaze at her own reflection in the lake, and provoke its inhabitants into songs of praise. On this particular worniltg she had made herself look lovelier than ever, and she stepped out of her mother's garden, anxiously peering round for the squirrels, who always greeted her approach joyfully, and escorted her to the edge of the lake with many a bow of admiration and envy. However, this morning the squirrels were not to be seen, she could hear them ill the distance holding an animated discussion, but not one of the little faces peeped down at her, and Narcissa thought it very strange that they should think other matters more interest­ing than th,- sight of her. hiw. ran down to the lake, and stepped on the , broad water-lily leaves, then sitting + on one of the pink blossoms the • . " . little vain fairy peeped down at her \\ dainty image. How pretty she ., w-ns' with her fairy figure, her hulk-white skin and rosy lips, her graceful arms llent over her head, while she . combed her golden hair with a pearl comb, - while her garments, made of moon-beams, shone like silver, and mado her appear like a bright jewel in the heart of the lotus flower. Very soon a large crowd of gold and silver fish had gathered round her, and funny round eyes and gaping; mouths peered at her from the brccn depths below. But - instead of the usual chorus of admiration with which they usually ;greeted her, s _ she found herself ap­ _ parently the object of all extraordinary curiosity. --~`'- _~ -- - The fishes appeared _ _ to be whispering to each other, then looking; at her with their funny wise heads held on one side, till Narcissa could hear the suspense no longer, and she sang in her sweetest tones­ " Goldfish, goldfish, tell me where, Is the fairest of the fair? " Then, to her horror and dismay, a mischievous-looking little water sprite rose to the surface and said­ " Although Narcissa very beauteous be, Forget-me-trot is fairer far than she." Then the whole chorus of fishes echoed "Yes, Forget-me-not, little blue-eyed Forget-me-not, is fairer far than she." Narcissa could hardly believe her own ears. Forgot­ me-not! ugly little Forget-me-not 1 Why, she had never been outside her mother's garden I The fishes could never have seen her, and if they had, w•hy, surely there was no comparison between the lovely Narcissa, more beautiful than the Fairy Queen herself, and this tiny, unpretentious little sister of hers. And yet the goldfish would keep oil' singing­ " Ilave you seen Forget-me-not, Fairest far of all the lot?" ~t t Narcissa went ashore, and ir: ii rage picked up settle pebble ,tiA pelted the fishes and rates sprites f , R with their, but they (lid not cart they dived down to the vet,*s.~d,: bottom of the lake and re-appeared ~ , again, still singing­ ,, :.. " Forgot-me-not, lovely 1°or,_,et-ma-not." ' The enraged little fairy ran off as fast as she could. As site passed thn rushes where all the frogs had congrcgatra she heard them croalcinc, " Little Forget-me-not with blue e?'os grand-Quack, quack, quack. Is loveliest in Fairyland-Quack, quack, quack." Through the woods she ran, where her friends, the squirrels, always used to pay her homage; now they were running up and down the trees in a great state of excitement, and shouting to each other­ " Have you seen Forget-me-not, the loveliest of all the lot?" This was too much for Narcissa altogether. She rushed through her mother's garden, up the steps, to where little Forget-me-not sat spinning a dress of spiders' webs. She was quite startled when site saw her sister rush in in so frantic it manner. Narcissa took hold of her hand, told her to leave her spinning and come with her. Little Forget.me-not was so accustomed to do as she was told that site obeved, and followed her sister, though she felt very frightened. On the two fairies ran, Narcissa dragging her little sister after her, till tin ,; came to an old dried-up well, which led down to the centre of the earth. `c Now," said Narcissa, u I have ' u. , v dropped my spindle in this well, and cannot finish my spinning ; you runs: jump down and fetch it for me." "But," said little Forget-nie not, "the well is so deep; mothei says it has no bottom. I should not Y°'> know where to look for your spindle." " If you don't jump down ini­ mediately and do as you are told I «il tliic, ' ~u in, for 1 am stronger than you," sa.d 'Na r( i,sa, slid tier eyes glittered with rage so that she looked quite ugly. What was poor little Forget-me-not to do? She was all alone with her wicked sister, and no chance for any one to come and help her, so she thought of her dear mother as she stood one moment hesitating on the brink of the well; then, suddenly Narcissa gave her a push, and down she fell-down, clown, clown. It was pitch dark round tier; she seemed to be floating in absolute space, and the last tiling she remembered as she lost consciousness in her terror, was, high lit) above, a little speck of light, slid Narcissa's wicked little face peering down at her and laughing triumphantly. And so she fell lower and lower yet, the darkness grew more and more intense, and then all of a sudden a ray of light began to penetrate front a ion;; way down below ; this little thsn streak of light encroached more and more upon the darkness. Little Forget-me-not re-opened her eyes, --- and suddenly found herself in full daylight on the edge of JO/ /r another well, with tall, over­ ' >= hatiging trees round her; she clambered up and looked round, she was in a strange part of the world, that was very evident, curiously shaped trees and plants urronnled her, flowers slit, had never seen lwfore, but still they. w(ro trees and flowers, and as such Forget-me­ rtlit ~cas 11,)t frill,lrttned it t thtm,bntstill shedidnotdare venture through the thick masses of undergrowth, through Nehich even her fairy-like little form could not have always found a passage. She felt very lonely and miserable, and longed for her dear mother, and her own familiar flowers; this was a very strange country, where perhaps she never would meet a friend wlul would be kind to her, and take her home. Poor little fairy, she sat down and cried, till the great sobs shook her little form, and her heart ached as if it would break. Suddenly she heard a shrill voice quite close to her, calling her by tier name, " Forget-me-not, Forget-me-not, why do you cry T " The little fairy, looked up in wonder, and there, standing before her, was the funniest little old woman she ever saw, her face was such a mass of wrinkles that you could not see any of the features, the eyes were hidden by deep furrows and ridges, the mouth appeared like a long narrow slit, only the nose, a very big hook nose, was so proninont unit long that it quite frightened poor little Forget-me-not. Her head was very huge, and seemed much too heavy for the small shrivelled body, all bent as if over-weighted with ag+. She had large b;uly hands and feet, with long nails like a bird's claws, and there she stood, blinking at the pretty little fairy, like an old hawk staring at a sparrow. " Why- do you cry 7 " the old woman repeated im­patiently, as poor little Forget-me-not seemed unable to answer, but only stared at her in fear and astonishment. " Oh," sobbed the poor little fairy, " I am so lonely and so miserable; my sister pushed me down a well, and I have fallen so deep (town that now I don't the least bit know where I am, and my poor dear mother at home must be crying after me, and wondering where I am, and I don't remember the «ay I came here, so I cannot go back. Dear, good, kind fairy, if you are a fairy, take me back to my mother, and I ~eill do anything in the world to serve and help you if I can." " I don't know that I want to take you back to your mother," the old fairy said, " and I am sure you can be of no possible use to ine, so I don't see why I should trouble my dead about you at all." " But l can spin and sew for you," Forget-me-not said eagerly, noticing the funny old green rags in which the old woman was clad, "and I can cook most dainty dishes, and scrub the floors, and (tress ,our hair, in fact, I can make myself most useful about a rouse, and like doing all kinds of work." 1, H'tn," said the ugly old fairy, •' I have been looking out for a young servant for some time, and you do seem pretty active and willing" . . "well," she said, "if you will come with me and be my maid, attend to my household and look after me, I will undertake to help and protect you. Will you agree to that 7 " " But," said little Forget-me-not, "that will never do. I have no other wish but to go back to my dear mother, and go on living my own quiet haply life, and if I go to be your servant, what use is all protection in the world to me, while I know my dear ones at home art) mourning for me, and think that I am dead T " " Well, you can please yourself," said the little old woman, "I have told you u oi, r «list conditions I will help and protect you, if tl.c don't suit you you can leave them alone, or ' C/` rather, I will leave you alone, for I <* - t l help y t and nice you shelter." " 'fell, then, you must help me now to let my mother know that I am quite safe, and will come back to her as soon as f can." The old fairv waved her stick three trues over her head, and a huge frog carne jumping apparently from nowhere, and waited for orders. .. Send any message you like,„ the old fairy said, " • and this frog will convey it to your mother before daybreak." " Please, Mr. Frog," said Forget-me-not, "go to my dear mother and tell her that 1 am still alive. ICarcissa pushed me down the well, but a kind fairy has rescued me, and 1 Hill going to be her little servant until sho releases mc." "Croak, croak," said the frog, and disappeared from view. " Now," said the old fairy, " ou must come home with me at once, and make the betas for' the night. AIN, son will be waiting for me, and you must help to make everything comfortable for hum at home." She stain waved her stick, and presently two bats came flying along, ouch carrying a broomstick. The old fairy mounted the one, and told Forget-me-not to get on to the other and follow her. Away she flew, high up over the trees. For­ get-nre-not felt err.- frightened and uncotu­ f'ortable, a~ I c, Lid never travelled on a broon«' i h ~~ before. However, the journey , not a very long ono, and ~' presently the two fairies lauded opposite a most gorgeous palace, tuade entirely of glass. lhrou~:i 'I walls one could see the long suite r t exquisite rooms, with crystal domes and den pillars. But not a soul was visil,l- anywhere, neither in the palace nor in the beautiful moonlit grounds, the whole palace. glittering in the moonlight, surrounded with gigantic trees and exquisitely-scented flower beds, wore a fearfully deserted look, and Forget-me-not wondered more and more about the curious old fairy who went about in rags, and owned such a magnificent tjtongh solitary abode. As she stepped off her broomstick and helped her mistress to alight she caught sight, in one of the gorgeous halls, of a sumptuously-laid-out feast, beautiful gold and silver dishes filled with the rarest fruits, and wino in diamond goblets. And there, alone, having a lonely meal, sat the handsomest fairy prince she could imagine. Little Forget-me-not could not take her oyes off hire, he had such a lovely face, though he looked very dejected and molancholy in his loveliness. " That is my son," said the old fairy. " I atn very proud of hits, as he is the handsonest prince in all fairyland, but I don't want him to marry, as then, of course, he would have to leave tile. That is why I won't allow a living thing to come anywhere near in), palace, for fear they should captivate his fancy, still put thoughts of marriage into his head. As for a bird, I won't have one near the place, as they will chirrup of nothing else but love and home. I have had no servant or attendant entirely on that account, and have been obliged to go about in rags, and eat nothing but nuts and fruit, as I had no one to spin, or sew, or cook for me. Bats and frogs are the only creatures I will tolerate, as I don't think there is till. faintest chance of my son falling in love with one of them. I liavc• an old bat's skin somewhere tip in my room, you wiil have to Wear that all day, while tit), son is et home, you may only take it off for three hours after midnight, as then lie always goes to sleep, and there is tie fear of his seeing you." Little Forget-me-not did not at all relish the idea of going about all day with a horrible old bat's skin ()It her, but of course she could say nothing, she hail to do as her mistress told her. The old fairy hobbled up the grand glass staircase, and presently returned carrying the skin. She made Forget­tne-not put it on, and her own mother would not have recognized in this old gray bat her pretty blue-eyed little daughter. The old fairy then told her that she might go to bed and rest for the remainder of the night, she would find her room at the top of one of the towers, and little Forget-rne­ not, now thoroughly tired and worn out, went up a long winding staircase, till she came to a nice little room, with a clean bed of straw, where she lay herself down, and irntne­diately dropped into a long heavy sleep, where she forgot all about the well, the bats, the broomsticks, the little old woman, and even the handsome fairy prince. The next morning she was till quite early, dressed her­self ill her bat's skin, and went dowrt>tairs. She cooked the breakfast for the prince and his n1other, andatl clay• she was kept busy, sewin,, :„A spinning new dresses in place of the, fair,,', o I d rags. She had to wait at all thi r" III,-,:1~ t 1)o, and Oil! it made her tluitImiserable to sec• the it'll -tl­ ., - sent(! prince e sitting at t:,lvlv, ~ All. looking so dejected :u1(l lonely, with no one to elk ;. to, except his ugly olcl t> mother; there seemed to l ,s be such lowing, in his eyes when he looked ` .-. round him, and saw nothing but ugly beings, frogs, hats or spiders ; ,­even the new servant was only another old bat, his eyes seemed to quite ache for some­thing beautiful to loch. get, and his ears for s\~ I , . `'. sounds. Forget-me-not ,l is - ~ longed to tell him of all the ...rr- lovely things in nature, of the birds, the squirrels, and the butter­ - flies, and also of all the beautiful fairies, of wwhich slier herself was ono, ix" •.l11 a ( idrd' of[ to the old woman, and was never allowed to take off her disfiguring garment, so she was obliged to hold her trace. 1)a v after day passed off in solitude for little Forget­me-not, tier mistress was very kind to tier in tier old grim way, but watched over all her movements most rigidly, for fear she should ever speak to the mince. At night only, for three hours after inidniglit, was the little fairy, allowed to wander freely about the castle and the park, miencuin­berect by the lieavy skin, clad in tier pretty dress of cob­webs ; she would then run down to the edge of a little neighbouring stream, and gather her little namesakes to weave pretty garland's for tier hair, then she would sit on the bank and talk to the frogs and bats, who were tier only companions ; slio had taken a great fancy to them, and lowed to hear their quaint talk. They all told tier how sorry they were for the poor prince, of wfnun his inother was so jcalons, huic they had all hoped Mien she came to he it little servant, thzt lit mmnld see her, fall in love with her, and marry tier, and so change this gloomy, solitary nto one of festivities and gaieties -, but, of Course, with a badly litdinlt• bat's skin on her, the t place i hing w- as impossible, and the (Ad fair N, %(-ris s1) watchful all clay that it was quite impossi- Me for in.)- one to have it few words with tit(, pritire, she only relaxed her vigi­ lance when lie was '~ asleep, and tlien she snored herself. Forget-me-not li;tencd to all this, and felt more miser­able than ever to thick that the handsome fairy prince, with whom she was now very much in love, should' never leave a chance of even knowing there w;as such a thing as love and beauty in the world ; she asked her friend, the chief bat of the establishment, if ho could not help her in tiny way, while her old mistress was asleep. "Well," said the bat, "if you like to get on my back I can take you into the Prince's rooili ~~ n e night, but then he is fast asleep, so I don't know of what use that can be to you.'13ut Forget-me-not was so desirous of seeing the Prince when his mother y; was not there, that she told Cite bat she - j l would not mind his being asleep, would he please take tier in at his window and let tier see him. '4P T4 The old bat consented. R`. It was too late then, but on the following night he agreed t > v, tit : _ 1 o_-•~ It-inc-not under the old cedar tree, 1'he little faire could hardly contain tier impatience all day. \\ hcu midnight struck, and the old woman and her son had both gone to sleep, she ran up to tier little room find took out tier pretty fairy (tress, then dressed tier beautiful golden hair, and having placed a garland of forget-inc-hots on tier ties([, she anxiously awaited tier friend, the bat, under the cedar tree. 11e was punctuat to the minute, and Forget-me-not, having mounted oil his back, lie deposited tier an the sill of the Prince's window. She stepped in, and saw the handsome fairy prince lying asleep, looking, oh I so lonely and dissatisfied. She went up to hiin and kissed hire gently, and a tear fell from her eye on to his pillow, where it changed into a brilliant diamond. Near it site laid the wreath of forget-me-nets from tier hair, then stole gently out of the room again and regained lier own couch without, fortunately, disturbing tier old mistress, who was snoring louder than ever. The next morning the Prince awoke feeling that he had had a most beautiful dream. He dun1v remembered seeing a little form of exquisite beauty it v in at his window, collie up close to him and kiss him, and then but surely it was not a dream, for there, on his pillow, was the wreath of forget-me-not-. she wore, and near it glittered the bright tear of love and sympathy which her fair eye had let fall on his forehead, and which had changed into a most brilliant diamond. He took both up and fastened them inside his doublet ; then, as it was still very early in the morning, he stole on tiptoe dotett the stairs, out of the palace, and through the park, into the great world, beyond the crystal ;sates, which he had never dared to cross before. A new feeling which he could not explain seemed to put an altogether different life into him. Everything around him seemed endowed with unwonted beauty ; the great trees waved their majestic branches over his head and whispered words he had never understood before, and when he looked up, there amen;; the boughs, he saw two lovely little beings he had iwver been allowed to see before, sitting quite close together ;it i clarping sweet words to each other. He scum,l t ''I w:. din, what they were saying: "1,1 .~- - acrd beauty' was what they were talk­ ing of, and that '., was what the fair, .,:. . • ,, prince was n~:r, _ i1: quest of­" Ilk Love ala l ?'° '- a~,tuty." He wits do­ tennincd to wander until he fo ut_ ~i _ the owner of the forget­ me-r: :, ;; '~ wreath and the diamond tear. I le l knew she could not be anywhere withi:a ill- mother's palace or garden, so he had set off, no matter for how ]on,, a distance, until lie lied once more seen the bright blue eyes which had appeared to hire in its dream. On and on he went ; he did not know himself bow far he had gone, or how long lie had been on the road. He felt no fatigue, all the world was so new to him, and so beautiful. In the forest the nimble squirrels and gaily­coloured birds; in the fields the bright-eyed butterflies, in the grass the tiny elves and fairies, in the waters the ~ewelled fishes, all were a source of wonder and admiration to him, so beautiful were they, all, and yet not one so perfect as the Little fairy being whom he had only seen in his dream. At last, one day, after long, lots_; wanderings, he eamo to the very lake near which Narcissa and her mother and father still dwelt. As he was beginning to feel -"cry tired, he sat down on the reed­covered bank and looked down .; with delight at a cluster of forget-me-nets close to hint, . ~. which so strongly ,: which reminded him of the bright blue eyes in his OW dream. He began to fear that he should never see her; that, -IC; h perhaps, she did not really exist. . Suddenly be looked up, and coating down the path, he saw a lovely little ' 'r° ' fairy, walking dejectedly along. She was very beautiful, though not quite so beautiful as his dream. She bad golden hair also, and blue eyes, but they were not the same blue eyes he had wandered all this long way to see. Narcissa, for it was she, had never ceased to come to the edge of the lake, and never ceased to look at herself in the waters and ask the goldfish who was the most beautiful fairy in the land, but the goldfish had never ceased to say­ " Although Princess Narcissa very beauteous bn, Little Forget-me-not, far away, is more beautiful than she." That is why, she looked so dejected, for she was still so vain that she hated the idea that Forget-me-not should still be alive and still be thought more beautiful than she. The Prince looked at the fairy figure in admiration as she trod gracefully on the large lily leaves, then, sitting on a pink lotus, began to comb her golden hair. Presently a whole row of little goldfish and water sprites put their little heads out of the water, and, looking critically at the fairy, began to sing gaily­ "Although Princess Narcissa very beauteous be, Little Forget-me-not, far away, is more beautiful than she." IV 'then the Prince Liww that they i:mst mean his own nttlt fauy, the lovely being '~A 9t '1 at lie had seen once, and int. ui .iiately leanit to love, and in cl"nrch of whom he had wandered from the other end of till, world. lie heard Narcissa asking eagerly­' And tell rile, Goldfish, where is Forget-me-not, who you say is a thousand ti:ues more beautiful than I?" " She is Chore, standing near you ! Welcome, Forget-the-not, the most beautiful in all fairy-land." The• Prince looked round in amazement, astonished that this lovely being should have been so near him without his knowing it, but he saw no one, only till ugly old bat, whom lie dimly recollected having seen a loll;; time ago in his mother's palace. Poor little Forget-me-not I-When she had perceived the consequences of her midnight adventure, and had seen tier clear prince go forth in quest of her, she resolved to follow him wherever he went. Oil and oil she lead wandered, always after him, until she felt so tired and footsore she could hardly walk, till at last she also had arrived near the well-known lake, and had seen her sister, Narcissa, and tior old friends, the goldfish, and all the old familiar places ; yet she had no eyes for all these, she only thought of her dear prince, and longed to throw off her ugly disguise, slid tell him that she was his own little fairy, who had kissed him in the night, slid taught biro the meaning of love and beauty ; yet she dared not, she was pledged to the old fairy not to take off hAr dis"wise, and was too frightened of her to break her word. Besides, if Narcissit were to see her now, surely she would throw her into the water and kill her. So she had to stand by, and feel that the Prince was looking at tier, and did not recognize her. Narcissa did, however, in one moment ; the eyes of envy and vanity are so sharp. She looked round when the goldfish had spoken, ' _ slid immediately, under tile, bat's skin, sh~ -1,i, d her little. blue-eyed sister, <­r Without a moment's hesitation she rushed at her, and giving lrcr ;: violent push, threw her into the water. The Prince, who had lcarut to lovr, all living creatures, however mean aiid humble, could not bear to see even an oM bat drown, so ho snatched hold of one of its wings to help it swim to shore, when lo! the bat's sl,in canto right off, and in its place he was holding the lovely being from his dream, she was again looking at him with those bright bins eyes, he bad never since forgotten. lice pulled her to shore, and she at last was happy in his arms. Now, need I tell my little readers any more? Well! perhaps they might like to hear that the old fairy mother, though at first sorely vexed at her son's conduct, finally was obliged to give her consent to his marriage with Forget-me­tint, so there was a grand wedding in the palace of glass, which henceforth became the abode of mirth and gaiety. As for Narcissn, she was Forget-me-not's bridesmaid, and it was a sovere punishment to her for all tier Nrickedness, to hear the whole fairy world, yea even tine Queen herself, say joyfully - "Yes, Forget-me-not, littlo blue-eyed Forget-me-not, is the most beautiful fairy of the lot 1 "