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"But he will not always come off well," I ventured to say

"Perhaps not," rejoined the knight, "in the individual act; but the

result of his lifetime will content hiht I; "but forto resuly: "May I ask for what the little beggar-girl wanted your aid, when she

came to your castle to find you?"

He looked at me for a moment in silence, and then said-

"I cannot help wondering how you know of that; but there is soh to entitle you to the privilege of the

country; na only ayou like to ask irl ca,

and told uely, it was so peculiar What I can recall is, that she was sent to

gather wings As soon as she had gathered a pair of wings for herself,

she was to fly away, she said, to the country she caive no infors froed, no one refused her But she needed a great s of butterflies and moths to make a pair for her; and so she

had to wander about day after day, looking for butterflies, and night

after night, looking for s But