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Spider-like creature with four legs, a spider's body and human arms catching a fairy in a spider-web.

Chapter VII.

The Story of Fairyfoot—(continued).

“When they were gone, Fairyfoot could sleep no more with astonishment. He did not wonder at the fairies admiring his feet, because their own were much the same; but it amazed him that Princess Maybloom’s father should be troubled at hers growing large. Moreover, he wished to see that same princess and her country, since there were really other places in the world than Stumpinghame.

“When Robin Goodfellow came to take him home as usual, he durst not let him know that he had overheard anything; but never was the boy so unwilling to get up as on that morning, and all day he was so weary that in the afternoon Fairy-

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