30 The Fairy Godmothers.

enough riches to be ‘ comfortable without being
puzzled,” was about the beft thing after all, though
not much of a Fairy gift. And now, my little
readers, I am beginning to get rather tired of my
ftory, and to feel that you may do fo too. I think
I am getting rather profy, fo I muft try and cut
the matter fhort. Four out of the five Fairy gifts
were like beauty and riches, worldly advantages.
For inftance, there was the little girl who was to
have every earthly pleafure at her feet—i.e. the
was to have every thing fhe wifhed for—why fhe
was fifty times worfe off than either Aurora or
Julia, for I will tell you whom fhe was like. She
was like the fifherman’s wife in Grimm’s German
popular fairy tales, who had every thing the wifhed,
and fo at laft wifhed to be king of the fun and
moon. I doubt not you remember her well, and
how fhe was in confequence fent back to her mud
cottage. I think, therefore, I need not defcribe
the young lady who had that Fairy gift.

There was another who was to be Joved wher-
ever fhe went; but nothing is worth having that
is had fo eafily, and this child got fo fick of being
kiffed and fondled and loved, that it was the great-
eft nuifance to her poffible, for difagreeable people
loved her juft as much as nice ones, and for her
part fhe hated them all alike. It was a very filly
' Fairy gift.

Come with me then to Ambrofia’s God-daugh-
ter, whom they vifited laft, and whofe F airy gift
the other Fairies were to guefs at !