"My shadow dares not come here." I sat down to the table, and began to help myself to the good things before me with confidence.

And now I found, as in many instances before, how true the fairy tales are; for I was waited on, all the time of my meal, by invisible hands.

I had scarcely to do more than look towards anything I wanted, when it was brought me, just as if it had come to me of itself.

My glass was kept filled with the wine I had chosen, until I looked towards another bottle or decanter; when a fresh glass was substituted, and the other wine supplied.

When I had eaten and drank more heartily and joyfully than ever since I entered Fairy Land, the whole was removed by several attendants, of whom some were male and some female, as I thought I could distinguish from the way the dishes were lifted from the table, and the motion with which they were carried out of the room.