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The Story of Childe Charity.
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to the one, ‘Now prepare the presents,’ and to the other, ‘Prepare the jewels;’ and when they were gone the dog stretched himself on the straw, Childe Charity turned in her sleep, and the moon shone in on the back garret.

“The mistress could not close her eyes any more than the maid from eagerness to tell the story. She woke up Childe Charity’s rich uncle before cock-crow; but when he heard it, he laughed at her for a foolish woman, and advised her not to repeat the like before the neighbours, lest they should think she had lost her senses. The mistress could say no more, and the day passed; but that night the master thought he would like to see what went on in the back garret: so when all the house were asleep he slipped out of bed, and set himself to watch at the crevice in the door. The same thing happened again that the maid and the mistress saw: the little men in crimson with their torches, and the little ladies in rose-coloured velvet with their lamps, came in at the window, and made an humble reverence to the ugly dog, the one saying, ‘Royal prince, we have prepared the presents,’ and the other, ‘Royal prince, we have prepared the jewels;’ and the dog said to them all, ‘Ye have done well. To-morrow come and meet me and the princess with horses and chariots, and let all things be in

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