child, a daughter named the Princess Aureline, and she was as beautiful
as the day and as good as she was beautiful.

"Because she was so good and beautiful princes used to come from all
over the world seeking her hand in marriage, and among them came the
King of the Black-Country, the richest and most powerful of them all.

"The Princess Aureline would have nothing to say to him, however,
because he was wicked as well as rich, so at last the King of the
Black-Country gathered his army together and marching against King
Whitebeard he conquered him and carried off the Princess Aureline
captive.

"Now there are great rejoicings in the Black King's country, but the
Princess Aureline sits and grieves all the time, and nothing the King
can do can make her smile. The more the Black King does, the more she
grieves, but she is so very beautiful that the King would deny her
nothing except to let her go home to her father."

"I should like to see a princess," said Teddy.

"So you shall," said the fairy, "for you are a great magician now, and
you have come here to do what no other hero in the world dares to do;
you have come to rescue the Princess Aureline and carry her back to her
own country."

"Do you mean I am a real magician?" asked Teddy.

"Why, yes," said the fairy. "Don't you see you are dressed in a
magician's robe? And there is your magic-chest on the grass beside you.
Look!" So saying the fairy drew a mirror of polished steel from under
her cloak and held it up before Teddy, and as he looked into it he
hardly knew himself; he was dressed in a black hood, and a long black
robe strangely woven about the hem with characters in white, and he held
a white staff in his hand. Beside him on the grass was a box bound round
with iron, and that was his magic-box.

After he had looked in the mirror for a while the fairy hid it away
again under her cloak. "Now come," she said, "for it is time we were
journeying on."

"But what have I in my box?" asked Teddy, as he picked it up and joined
the fairy, who was already hobbling along toward the city.

"Don't you remember?" said the fairy. "It's your circus."

"Oh, yes, I remember now," said Teddy.

After a while he and the fairy reached the city, and everywhere along
the street were people laughing and dancing and feasting, and all the
houses were hung with white and black flags. The black flags were for
the King of the Black-Country, and the white flags were for the
Princ