they had shoved one another into the pond.

When the girl thought they had had enough she took the spell off, and
the master asked her what had begun the row, for he had not heard in the
confusion.

And the girl said: "They were ready to fall on any one; they'd have beat
me if you had not come by."

So it blew over for that time, and through her feathers she made the
best laundress ever known. But to make a long story short, when the
seven years and a day were up, the bird-husband, who had known her
doings all along, came after her, restored to his own shape again. And
he told her mistress he had come to take her from being a servant, and
that she should have servants under her. But he did not tell of the
feathers.

And then he bade her give the men back their savings.

"That was a rare game you had with them," said he, "but now you are
going where there is plenty, leave them each their own." So she did; and
they drove off to their castle, where they lived happy ever after.




Sir Gammer Vans


Last Sunday morning at six o'clock in the evening as I was sailing over