“In Fairyland there are Witches as well as Fairies, just as on Earth there are bad people as well as good people.
“I had always been very friendly with the Witches and they were as kind to me as they could be until one day I went to visit the Witch Discontent. She was never satisfied with anything and never smiled or laughed.
“You know I love everybody and everything. I am happy all the day long and I never fret or worry. On this day I was so happy over the beautiful sunshine and flowers that I was singing and dancing.
“The Witch Discontent could not help but feel my happiness and bye and bye she forgot to whine and scold and actually began to sing with me. She had never been known to sing a note before.
“Then I told her a joke and she laughed. My, how she laughed! We were having the best kind of a time when one of the other Witches entered and found the Witch Discontent enjoying herself.
“The Witch Discontent was so angry to be caught having a good time that she flew into a terrible rage, and drove me from the house.”
CHAPTER VII
WHEN the Tree-Fairy told of the Witch Discontent’s rage, she shuddered, then she continued:
“The Witch Discontent not only drove me from her house, but she chased me and she screamed at me every step of the way. I could run faster than she and I reached my home first. I ran into the house, closed and bolted the door.
“I was just in time for I had only finished locking the door when the Witch Discontent threw herself against it.