bringing no cheese home, and then he told her his adventures.

"Oh, you bad man!" she said, "the fairies gave you money and you
spent it wrongly, so they were sure to take their revenge."




THE BABY-FARMER.

Old Kaddy was a baby-farmer, and one day she went to the woods to
gather sticks for her fire, and whilst she was gathering the sticks
she found a piece of gold, and took it home; but she never told
anyone she had found the money, for she always pretended to be very
poor.

But though she was so poor, she used to dress two of her children in
fine clothes; but the others, whom she did not like, she kept in the
filthiest rags.

One day a man knocked at her door, and asked to see the children.

He sat down in her little room, and she went and brought the
ragged little boy and girl, saying she was very poor, and couldn't
afford to dress them better; for she had been careful to hide the
well-dressed little boy and girl in a cockloft.

After the stranger had gone she went to the cockloft to look for her
well-dressed favourites, but they had disappeared, and they were
never seen afterwards, for they were turned into fairies.