“O prince, I promise to leave my tree
When yellow slippers you bring to me.”
The prince was delighted. He went into town, and bought the prettiest yellow satin slippers he could find. He took them to the fairy in the oak tree, but she only repeated the same verse.
The prince then puzzled his brains to find out what kind of slippers the fairy wished.
He was almost in despair, when, one day, he was walking through the woods and saw a queer little yellow flower growing.
He went nearer the flower. Then he clapped his hands and shouted for joy, because the flower was in the shape of a yellow slipper.
He searched a long time until he found another flower just like it. Then he ran as fast as his feet would carry him, and came to the oak tree and said:
“Now I am happy. Without any doubt,
Kind Oak-Tree Fairy, you will come out.”
Click! click! click! went the door in the tree and the Oak-Tree Fairy came out.