The little farmer was overjoyed, and cried:

"Oh, what can I do for you? What can I do for you?"

"Money I care not for," said the queen, "all I want is your son to
avenge you and me."

The lad jumped up and said:

"What I can do I'll do it for you, my lady fairy."

She told him to be at the walled plot the following day at noon, and
left.



IV.

The next day at noon, the queen and her daughter and three hundred
other fairies came up the cliff to the green grass plot, and they
carried a pole, and a tape, and a mirror. When they reached the plot
they planted the pole in the ground, and hung the mirror on the
pole. The queen took the tape, which measured ten yards and was
fastened to the top of the pole, and walked round in a circle, and
wherever she set her feet the grass withered and died. Then the
fairies followed up behind the queen, and each fairy carried a
harebell in her left-hand, and a little blue cup of burning perfume
in her right. When they had formed up the queen called the lad to
her side, and told him to walk by her throughout. They then started
off, all singing in chorus: