Description ONCE upon a time, when Fairies were much more common than they are now, there lived a King and a Queen.
Then he looked all round his kingdom, and said, "Ah I would give it all for a BABY ".
He took off his crown, and went into his garden.
One day, when the King had been counting out his money all day (the day when the tributes were paid in), he grew very tired.
But they never took any notice.
Often the Queen said she wished she had a child, even if it were no bigger than her thumb; and she hoped the Fairies might hear her and help her.
They had no child, neither boy nor girl, to sit on the Throne when they were dead and gone.
Here\'s the King, in mournful mood, They\'d amuse him, if they could Now the King and Queen of the country next to Fairy Land were very rich, and very fond of each other; but one thing made them unhappy.
Here you may see all the Fairies making themselves merry at a picnic on a fuschia, and an ugly little Dwarf is climbing up the stalk.
The girl-fairies would swing out of the bells of the fuschias, and loll on the leaves, and drink the little drops of dew that fell down the stems.
Their country was close to Fairy Land, and very often the little Elves would cross over the border, and come into the King\'s fields and gardens.
Description ONCE upon a time, when Fairies were much more common than they are now, there lived a King and a Queen
