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196 MOONFOLK.
Moonglade beach, where you will find your boat. Do
you want to coine in, Rhoda "
?
" Yes, if
you please, ma'am ;
but what sort of a place
is it ? " asked the little girl, privately thinking that it
was a very poor exchange for her dear Camelot. The
fairy glanced at her shrewdly, and replied :
" No,
it isn't as romantic, but it's more to the purpose,
I assure you. This is
my spectacle factory.
Come along."
" I shouldn't think you would need spectacles,
ma'am," said Rhoda, feeling that it was as well to speak
out her thoughts as to have them read in this manner.
"Why not?"
"I thought fairies could do all they wanted to, and
see and hear everything ever so far off, and
"
" All true my dear, and I do not need the spectacles
for myself. I manufacture them for the market."
"
Oh ! do you, ma'am " ? stammered Rhoda, more
and more bewildered.
" Yes," returned the fairy godmother complacently
" I sell a great many spectacles, both here, and down
below in your world. Our principal trade, however, is
with Lilliput. The glasses magnify, you see, and the
Lilliputians, when they get them on, feel themselves
equal to anybody.
They also have the faculty of making
everything seen through them look just as the person
looking wishes to see We it. sell great numbers to
fond mammas, who look at their children through