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"Catch fast hold of my tail, and I will take you safely to shore," said he; and Pease-Blossom lost no time in doing as he was bid. Ugh! How salty the water was and how the billows roared as the fish plunged through them, sending the white spray far above his head!
'Here, sir, said Mustard-seed: 'what is your will? 'Nothing, said the clown, 'good Mr. Mustard-seed, but to help Mr. Pease-blossom to scratch; I must go to a barber's, Mr. Mustard-seed, for methinks I am marvellous hairy about the face. 'My sweet love, said the queen, 'what will you have to eat? I have a venturous fairy shall seek the squirrel's hoard, and fetch you some new nuts.
It is a fairy sound as though Mustard-seed were in the hall. Or it might be Pease-blossom rousing up Cobweb in the play, to repel the red-hipped humble-bee. It is so slight a tapping that if I sleep with even one ear inside the covers I will not hear it. The little lad stands in the dim passage to greet me, fully dressed, to reproach me with my tardiness.
But no sooner had he opened his bill to speak his very first word than out tumbled Pease-Blossom. The other hawk made haste to catch the fay but before he could reach him a fine breeze came blowing by.
She then called four of her fairies: their names were, Pease-blossom, Cobweb, Moth, and Mustard-seed. "Attend," said the queen, "upon this sweet gentleman; hop in his walks, and gambol in his sight; feed him with grapes and apricots, and steal for him the honey-bags from the bees.
"I will go, too," said little Twinkle-Toes. "And I, three," said Spice-of-Life; "and my good thorn sword with me, which will make four against them." But the fairy queen would not consent to this. "Pease-Blossom in his trust did fail; And he must seek the nightingale," she said; and no sooner had she spoken than the little fay bade his companions good-bye and hastened out upon his quest alone.
Come, sit with me," said she to the clown, "and let me play with your amiable hairy cheeks, my beautiful ass! and kiss your fair large ears, my gentle joy!" "Where is Pease-blossom?" said the ass-headed clown, not much regarding the fairy queen's courtship, but very proud of his new attendants. "Here, sir," said little Pease-blossom. "Scratch my head," said the clown. "Where is Cobweb?"
Come, sit with me," said she to the clown, "and let me play with your amiable hairy cheeks, my beautiful ass! and kiss your fair large ears, my gentle joy!" "Where is Pease-blossom?" said the ass-headed clown, not much regarding the fairy queen's courtship, but very proud of his new attendants. "Here, sir," said little Pease-blossom. "Scratch my head," said the clown. "Where is Cobweb?"
"A thousand thanks to you, oh moon," cried Pease-Blossom joyfully when he heard this; for he could put two and two together as well as any fay in fairyland, and he did not doubt that the goblins had sold the nightingale to the Great Giant. "I shall be at the castle before you shine in the dell," he called to the moon as he flew swift as a humming bird through the air.
To open the cage door was only a minute's work and the nightingale was soon as free as air. Pease-Blossom seated himself upon her back and she was just ready to fly through an open window near by when the giant waked up in real earnest and saw the open cage. "Thieves!
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