The two young ladies exchanged a glance, and smiled mysteriously.

He was more convinced than ever that he was among the good people.

The younger stepped gaily forward and said---- "Do you know who _I_ am, my little man?
Well, I'm the fairy Una, and this is my palace; and that fairy you see there (pointing to the dark lady, who was looking out something in a box), is my sister and family physician, the Lady Graveairs; and these (glancing at the old man and woman), are some of my courtiers; and I'm considering now what I shall do with _you_, whether I shall send you to-night to Lough Guir, riding on a rush, to make my compliments to the Earl of Desmond in his enchanted castle; or, straight to your bed, two thousand miles under ground, among the gnomes; or to prison in that little corner of the moon you see through the window--with the man-in-the-moon for your gaoler, for thrice three hundred years and a day! There, don't cry.

You only see how serious a thing it is for you, little boys, to come so near my castle.

Now, for this once, I'll let you go.