Produced by Al Haines. [Illustration: Cover art] [Illustration: Sample page] [Transcriber’s note: the above sample page is for right-hand (odd-numbered) pages. For left-hand (even-numbered) pages, use a mirror image of the sample page.] [Illustration: Frontispiece] _*The Queen Who Flew*_ *A Fairy Tale* By *FORD HUEFFER* AUTHOR OF "THE BROWN OWL" "SHIFTING OF THE FIRE," ETC. _With a Frontispiece by_ SIR E. BURNE JONES AND _Border Design by_ C. R. B. BARRETT LONDON BLISS, SANDS & FOSTER CRAVEN STREET, STRAND, W.C. 1894 TO A PRINCESS OF THE OLD TIME BEFORE US THIS TALE IS DUE AND DEDICATED. _Over the leas the Princess came,_ _On the sward of the cliffs that breast the sea,_ _With her cheeks aglow and her hair aflame,_ _That snared the eyes and blinded them,_ _And now is but a memory._ _Over the leas, the wind-tossed dream,_ _Over the leas above the sea,_ _Passed and went to reign supreme._ _—No need of a crown or diadem_ _In the kingdom of misty Memory._ *THE QUEEN WHO FLEW.* Once upon a time a Queen sat in her garden. She was quite a young, young Queen; but that was a long while ago, so she would be older now. But, for all she was Queen over a great and powerful country, she led a very quiet life, and sat a great deal alone in her garden watching the roses grow, and talking to a bat that hung, head downwards, with its wings folded, for all the world like an umbrella, beneath the shade of a rose tree overhanging her favourite marble seat. She did not know much about the bat, not even that it could fly, for her servants and nurses would never allow her to be out at dusk, and the bat was a great deal too weak-eyed to fly about in the broad daylight. But, one summer day, it happened that there was a revolution in the land, and the Queen’s servants, not knowing who was likely to get the upper hand, left the Queen all alone, and went to look at the fight that was raging. But you must understand that in those days a revolution was a thing very different from what it would be to-day.