grieves, but she is so very beautiful that the King would deny her
nothing except to let her go home to her father."

"I should like to see a princess," said Teddy.

"So you shall," said the fairy, "for you are a great magician now, and
you have come here to do what no other hero in the world dares to do;
you have come to rescue the Princess Aureline and carry her back to her
own country."

"Do you mean I am a real magician?" asked Teddy.

"Why, yes," said the fairy. "Don't you see you are dressed in a
magician's robe? And there is your magic-chest on the grass beside you.
Look!" So saying the fairy drew a mirror of polished steel from under
her cloak and held it up before Teddy, and as he looked into it he
hardly knew himself; he was dressed in a black hood, and a long black
robe strangely woven about the hem with characters in white, and he held
a white staff in his hand. Beside him on the grass was a box bound round
with iron, and that was his magic-box.

After he had looked in the mirror for a while the fairy hid it away
again under her cloak. "Now come," she said, "for it is time we were
journeying on."

"But what have I in my box?" asked Teddy, as he picked it up and joined
the fairy, who was already hobbling along toward the city.

"Don't you remember?" said the fairy. "It's your circus."