fe) BEAUTIFUL BIRDS 
fashionable, and fitted him so well, that they always 
thought the ugly demon inside it was just what he 
ought to be. So, of course, as every one had different 
ideas as to what he ought to be, he seemed different 
to different people. One person looked at the 
clothes, and thought him quite remarkable, another 
one looked at them and thought him ordinary and 
commonplace, and so on. Only every one was 
pleased, because, whatever else he seemed, he always 
seemed just what he ought to be. So, when two 
people both found that he was that, they each of . 
them thought that he looked the same to the other. 
Of course the clothes were enchanted, really, only no- 
body knew it, and if any one had been told that it was 
the clothes and not the demon inside them they were 
looking at, he would not have believed it. It was 
only Dame Nature and her daughter Truth who 
could look at those clothes and see the little demon 
inside them, just as he really was. That was why 
he hated them, and never liked to hear their names. 
This ugly little demon crept up to the Goddess of 
Pity, who looked at the clothes and was not even 
able to pity him; and, when he saw that he had her 
good opinion, he began to repeat a sort of charm to 
send her to sleep, for he knew that when once the 
Goddess of Pity was asleep he might do whatever he 
liked. 
