The Fairiy's Two Gifts (2)

The Fairy's Two Gifts (2)

  Then the owner of the beautiful house looked at the wanderer from head to foot, and he saw that she was dressed in ragged clothes, but he could not see how much gold she had in her pocket.

  So he shook his head and said, " I cannot take you in -  my rooms are full of valuable things, and if I were to admit into my house everyone who knocks at my door, I should soon have to take the beggar's staff myself. You must seek for what you want elsewhere. "

  Then he shut down the window, and left the good Fairy standing outside.

  She turned her back on the grand house and went across to the other.

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