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 and good manners of this pretty girl would go.) "I will give you for gift, (continued the Fairy) that at every word you ſpeak, there ſhall come out of your mouth either a flower or a jewel

When this pretty girl came home, her mother ſcolded at her for ſtaying ſo long at the fountain. "I beg your garden, mamma, ſaid the poor girl, for not making more haſte, and in ſpeaking there words, there came out of her mouth two roſes, two pearls, and two diamonds. What is it I ſee there? ſaid her mother quite aſtoniſhed, I think I ſee pearls and diamonds come out of the girl's mouth? how happy is this child? This was the firſt time ever ſhe called her child.

The poor creature told her frankly all the matter, it without dropping out infinite numbers of diamonds. "In good faith, cried the mother, I muſt ſend my child thither. Come hither, Fanny, look what comes out of thy ſiſter's mouth, when ſhe ſpeaks? Wouldſt thou not be glad, my dear, to have the ſame gift given unto thee? Thou haſt nothing elſe to do but go and draw water out of the fountain, and when a certain poor woman aſks you to let her drink, to give it to her very civilly. It would be a very fine ſight indeed, ſaid this ill-bred minx, to ſee me go draw water. You ſhall go, huſſy, ſaid the mother, and this minute. So away ſhe went, but grumbling all the way, taking with her the beſt ſilver tankard in the houſe.

She was no ſooner at the fountain, than ſhe ſaw coming out of the wood, a lady moſt gloriouſly dreſſed, who came up to her, and aſked to drink. This was, you muſt know, the very Fairy who appeared to her ſiſter, but had now taken the air and dreſs of a princeſs, to ſee how far this girl's rudeneſs would go. "Am I come hither, ſaid the proud ſaucy ſlut, to ſerve you with water, pray? I ſuppoſe the ſilver tankard was brought purely for your