“Oh! Ho!” cried she; “I’ve caught you, you thief!”
“What!” exclaimed he. “Do you see me to-day?”
“See you! To be sure I do!—as plain as the sun in the sky! And I see you very busy stealing, into the bargain!”
“With which eye do you see me?” said he.
“With my right eye, to be sure,” answered Dame Moll.
“The ointment! The ointment!” exclaimed the little man. “Take that for meddling with what did not belong to you!”
And he struck her in the eye as he spoke. And from that day to this old Dame Moll has been blind in the right eye. And surely it served her right for stealing the Fairy ointment.