FOOTNOTE:
[1] Bonowed—ransomed or rescued.
BUTTERCUP
(From the Norse)
THERE was once a poor woman who I had one son, a little boy so fat and round, and with such bright yellow hair that he was called Buttercup. The house where they lived was upon the edge of a lonely forest, and upon the other side of this forest lived a wicked old witch.
One day when the woman was baking she heard Sharptooth, her dog, begin to bark. “Run, Buttercup, and see who is coming,” she said.
Buttercup ran and looked out. “Oh, Mother, it is an old witch with her head under one arm and a bag under the other.”