WASSA RETURNS TO FAIRYLAND. I5!I

low such carelessness on her part. She tried
to hold her venturesome charge back, but at
every attempt to restrain him he set up a yell
that resounded through the cavern so loudly

that Wassa feared it would reach the ears of
the king.

  

The fairy prince continued this sport until
Wassa was very weary, and she tried in vain to
persuade him to allow her to take him to bed.

“No! cried the prince, I tell thee no!
To the birds’ cave I wish to go.”