264 THE GOLD OF FAIRNILEE.

 

fice anything. There can’t be any harm in
that |!”

“But, oh Randal, you’ve got your green
doublet on!”

“Well! why not?”

“Do you not know it angers the fair—I mean
the good folk,—that anyone should wear green
on the hill but themselves ?”’

“T cannot help it,” said Randal. “If I go
in and ce ‘my doublet, they will ask what I
do that for. I’ll chance it, green or grey, and
wish my wish for all that.”

** And what are you going to wish?”

1 ’m going to wish to meet the Fairy Queen !
Just think how beautiful she must be! dressed
all in green, with gold bells on her bridle, and
riding a white horse shod with gold! I think I
see her galloping through the woods and out
across the hill, over the heather.”

“But you will 8° away with her, and never
see me any more,” said Jean.

“No, I won’t; or if I do, I’ll come back,
with such a horse, and a sword with a gold
handle. I’m going to the Wishing Well.
Come on!”

Jean did not like to say “No,” and off they
went.

Randal and Jean started without taking any-
thing with them to eat. They were afraid to
go back to'the house for food. Randal said
they would be sure to find something some-