A PEEP AT THE
130
PIXIES.
As
lay on a bencli in the Hall.
over liim as
lie
was restored
to his senses,
soon as he
and quite himself^ he asked
for a
cup of ale, to refresh him.
A
"
nor place for carousing. an awful sight, this
"
exclaimed Mabel;
ale !"
cup of
For,
look there
how wicked men meet
this is !
no time
Look and
see
reward even in
their
world!"
Mabel point with her hand in the direcBath for there a fearful sight indeed There stood about it Sir Henry, and his
Well might
old
tion of the Pixies'
;
was to be seen. young and beautiful bride leaning on his arm, and gazing upon it with looks of wonder and of thankfulness. Nearly The all the household, also, stood around looking on.
now
bath was retreated fate Sir
It
;
once more perfectly dry
the waters had
;
but not before they had consigned to a terrible
Roger de Stevenson.
was supposed
that,
night, the horse he rode
mistaking
it
for the
sufficient in the
in the darkness of the previous
had carried him
path by the
It
side.
middle to drown them
;
into the pool,
was of depth
and there, in the
now dry, hollow pit, was mounted on his courser's back, Sir Roger de Stevenson— man and horse were both dead. The Pixies
very centre of that deep, and seen,
still
had, indeed,
accomplished their revenge
never flowed again
was destroyed.
;
;
but their bath
and in a few years every vestige of
it