Joyce found this little Jules out in the fields one day, tending the goats, and they got to be great friends She told him this story, and they played that he was the prince and she was the Giant Scissors who was to rescue him from the clutches of the Ogre.

She made up a rhyme for him to say.

He had only to whisper: "'Giant Scissors, fearless friend, Hasten, pray, thy aid to lend,' and she would fly to help him.

She really did, too, for she played ghost one night to frighten the old care-taker, and she told Jules's uncle, when he came back, how cruelly the poor little thing had been treated.
"Then the little prince really did come into his kingdom, for all sorts of lovely things happened after that.

The gate had been closed for years on account of a terrible quarrel in the Ciseaux family, but at last something Joyce did helped to make it up.