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Granny’s Wonderful Chair.

trade, and the whole north country found out that there never were such cobblers.

“They mended the shoes of lords and ladies as well as the common people, everybody was satisfied. Their custom increased from day to day, and all that were disappointed, discontented, or unlucky, came to the hut as in old times, before Spare went to court.

“The rich brought them presents, the poor did them service. The hut itself changed, no one knew how. Flowering honeysuckle grew over its roof; red and white roses grew thick about its door. Moreover, the Christmas Cuckoo always came on the first of April, bringing three leaves of the merry tree—for Scrub and Fairfeather would have no more golden ones. So it was with them when I last heard the news of the north country.”


“What a summer-house that hut would make for me, mamma!” said the Princess Greedalind.

“We must have it brought here bodily,” said Queen Wantall; but the chair was silent, and a lady and two noble squires, clad in russet-coloured satin and yellow buskins, the like of which had never been seen at that court, rose up and said—

“That’s our story.”

“I have not heard such a tale,” said King Win-

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