So back she went to the waterside and called “Fairy, fairy”; and the water bubbled, and the little fairy stood beside her.
“What do you want, good woman?” she said.
And the little old woman answered: “You have been very kind, ma’am, in giving me a house, and now, if you please, ma’am, I would like some new furniture. For the furniture I had in the vinegar-bottle looks very shabby now that it is in the pretty little cottage.”
“Go home and you shall have some,” said the fairy.
So the little old woman went home, and there she found her cottage filled with nice new furniture, a stool and table, a neat little four-post bed with blue-and-white checked curtains, and an armchair covered with flowered chintz.
She was very happy, and thought she would never want anything more; but after a while she grew discontented again.
So back she went to the waterside and called “Fairy, fairy”; and the water bubbled, and the little fairy stood beside her.
“What do you want, good woman?” she said.
And the little old woman answered: “You have been very kind, ma’am, in giving me a house and furniture, and now, if you please, ma’am, I would like some new clothes. For I find that the clothes I wore in the vinegar-bottle are not nearly good enough for the mistress of such a pretty little cottage.”
Then the fairy said, “Go home and you shall have some.”