24 THE FAIRY GIFTS.

drink out of! Very likely, isn’t it?
Get your own water, if you want any!”

“You are not very polite,” said the
fairy, coolly. ‘‘ Well, well, since these
are your ways, my gift to you shall be
that for every word you speak a snake or
a toad shall fall from your lips.”

When her mother saw her coming
back, she called to her, ‘‘How now,
daughter ?”

‘* How now, mother! ” said she, rudely,
and lo! there fell from her two vipers
and a toad.

“Oh,.la!” cried her mother. ‘*What’s
this I see? This is some naughty trick
of your sister’s; she shall pay for it!”
And so she ran and fetched a stick to
beat-her.

The poor child fled affrighted, and hid