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'And who is my old friend? asked Giglio. 'When you want anything, says the lady, 'look in this bag, which I leave to you as a present, and be grateful to 'To whom, madam? says he. 'To the Fairy Blackstick, says the lady, flying out of the window. And then Giglio asked the conductor if he knew where the lady was?
"I have a competency, my love," she says, "and with thee and a cottage thy Barbara will be happy." Giglio was half mad with rage by this time. "I will not marry her," says he. "Oh, Fairy, Fairy, give me counsel?" And as he spoke he looked wildly round at the severe face of the Fairy Blackstick. "'Why is Fairy Blackstick always advising me, and warning me to keep my word?
About the same time the Queen of Paflagonia presented His Majesty with a son and heir; and guns were fired, the capital illuminated, and no end of feasts ordained to celebrate the young Prince's birth. In like manner, when CAVOLFIORE, King of Crim Tartary, had a christening of his only child, ROSALBA, the Fairy Blackstick, who had been invited, was not more gracious than in Prince Giglio's case.
The Fairy Blackstick, by whose means this young King and Queen had certainly won their respective crowns back, would come not unfrequently, to pay them a little visit as they were riding in their triumphal progress towards Giglio's capital change her wand into a pony, and travel by their Majesties' side, giving them the very best advice.
For the Fairy Blackstick coming to call upon the Prince and Princess, who were actually sitting at the open drawing-room window, Gruffanuff not only denied them, but made the most ODIOUS VULGAR SIGN as he was going to slam the door in the Fairy's face! "Git away, hold Blackstick!" said he. "I tell you, Master and Missis ain't at home to you;" and he was, as we have said, GOING to slam the door.
'Master's not at home, says Jenkins, just in his old voice; and Mrs. Jenkins, giving a dreadful YOUP, fell down in a fit, in which nobody minded her. For everybody was shouting, 'Huzzay! huzzay! 'Hip, hip, hurray! 'Long live the King and Queen! 'Were such things ever seen? 'No, never, never, never! 'The Fairy Blackstick for ever!
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