Daisy, or the Fairy Spectacles (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Daisy, or the Fairy SpectaclesAt first he looked about for the most beau tiful, and asked her if she would be his wife, but the beauty tossed her head, and answered, not unless he lived in a two-story house, and had carpets on his ¿oors, and a wagon in which she could drive to town when she chose.All this, was very unlike the home of poor Peter, who had nothing in the world but his rough little cabin and a barrow in, which he wheeled his wood.The next maiden told him he had an ugly scar on his face, and was not good looking enough for her and, besides, his clothes were coarse. The next declared that she was afraid of wolves, and would rather marry one of the village youths, and live where she could hear the news, and on fair-days watch the people come and go.So Peter started for his lonely home again, with a sadder heart than he left it, for there was no chance that he could ever grow hand some or rich, and therefore he thought he must always dwell alone, instead of the music of kind voices, with which he had hoped to make his evenings pleasant, he was still to hear only the cracking of boughs, and hissing of snakes, and the barking of wolves.But suddenly he met in the road some peo ple who seemed more wretched than himself an old, bent woman, clad in rags, and with such an ugly face that, strong man as he was, Peter could not look at her without trm12 daisy, on ran fairy spectacles.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.