"I am making my knife sharp and bright so as to cut up your coat to make me a nice fur collar." "Oh," said the fox, "do not cut up my coat. Let me go and I will bring you some geese." "Very well," said the old man, "see to it that you do." And in the same way he let the rabbit loose, who said that he would bring some cabbage and some turnips and some carrots. The next morning early the old woman woke up and said: "Some one is knocking at the door." So the old man got up and went to the door and opened it. "See," said the bear, "I have brought you a jar full of honey." "Very well," said the old man, and he gave the jar to the old woman who put it on the shelf. Then came the wolf driving a flock of sheep into the yard. "See," said the wolf, "I have brought you a flock of sheep." "Very well," said the old man, and he drove the sheep into the pasture. Then came the fox, with many geese running before him, and the old man drove them into the pen; and then came the rabbit with cabbages and turnips and carrots and other good things, and the old woman took them and put them into the pot and cooked them. And the old man said to the old woman, "Now we have sheep in the pasture and many geese in the pen, and we are rich, and I can give you something to please you." THE LITTLE PRINCESS OF THE FEARLESS HEART BY B. J. DASKAM Once upon a time the great, yellow stork carried a baby Princess to the Queen of that country which lies next to fairy-land. All throughout the kingdom the bells rang, the people shouted, and the King declared a holiday for a whole year. But the Queen was very anxious, for she knew that the fairies are a queer lot, and their borders were very close indeed. "We must be very careful to slight none of them at the christening," she said, "for goodness knows what they might do, if we did!" So the wise-men drew up the lists, and when the day for the christening arrived, the fairies were all there, and everything went as smoothly as a frosted cake. But the Queen said to the Lady-in-waiting: "The first fairy godmother gave her nothing but a kiss! I don't call that much of a gift!" "'Sh!" whispered the Lady-in-waiting. "The fairies hear everything!" And indeed, the fairy heard her well enough, and very angry she was about it, too. For she was so old that she knew all about it, from beginning to end, and she was sure that the Wizard with Three Dragons was sitting in the Black Forest, watching the whole matter in his crystal globe. So she had whispered her gift--which was nothing more nor less than a Fearless Heart--into the ear of the Little Princess. But the Queen thought she had only kissed her. So, when the clock was on the hour of four (which, as every one knows, is the end of christenings and fairy gifts) the first godmother went up to the golden cradle.