rather bashful."

So Lulu promised she would bring no one else, and she hurried to the store
and back again. Fan Tail, the gold fish, went to the drug store for the
sweet flag root for the fairy prince, and on the way she stubbed her nose
against a stone, which made her cold in the head worse than ever; but of
course we have nothing to do with that except to feel sorry for her.

When Lulu got home she was so excited she dropped the yeast cake in the
pond, and it would have gotten all wet only it was wrapped in tin-foil.
Then she told Alice and Jimmie about the fairy prince she was going to
see, but, as this story is too long already, I must stop, and in case the
postman does not blow his whistle too loud and scary, I shall have the
pleasure, to-morrow night, of telling you about the fairy prince. And I
hope you won't be disappointed.




STORY VIII

WHO THE FAIRY PRINCE WAS


Mamma and Papa Wibblewobble were sitting in front of the duck pen, talking
with Grandfather Goosey-Gander and the big rooster. They were so busily
engaged in conversation about the best way to serve cold corn meal mixed
with water, that when Lulu asked her parents if she and Jimmie and Alice
could go for a swim, Mrs. Wibblewobble said: