FAIRSERVICE (Mr.), a magistrate’s clerk.—­Sir W. Scott, Heart of Midlothian (time, George II.).

Fairservice (Andrew), the humorous Scotch gardener of Sir Hildebrand Osbaldistone, of Osbaldistone Hall.—­Sir W. Scott, Rob Boy (time, George I.).

Overflowing with a humor as peculiar in its way as the humors of Andrew Fairservice.—­London Athenaeum.

FAIRSTAR (Princess), daughter of Queen Blon’dina (who had at one birth two boys and a girl, all “with stars on their foreheads, and a chain of gold about their necks").  On the same day, Blondina’s sister Brunetta (wife of the king’s brother) had a son, afterwards called Cherry.  The queen-mother, wishing to destroy these four children, ordered Fein’tisa to strangle them, but Feintisa sent them adrift in a boat, and told the queen-mother they were gone.  It so happened that the boat was seen by a corsair, who brought the children to his wife Cor’sina to bring up.  The corsair soon grew immensely rich, because every time the hair of these children was combed, jewels fell from their heads.  When grown up, these castaways went to the land of their royal father and his brother, but Cherry was for a while employed in getting for Fairstar (1) The dancing water, which had the gift of imparting beauty; (2) The singing apple, which had the gift of imparting wit; and (3) The green bird, which could reveal all secrets.  By this bird the story of their birth was made known, and Fairstar married her cousin Cherry.—­Comtesse D’Aunoy, Fairy Tales ("Princess Fair-star,” 1682).

[Illustration] This tale is borrowed from the fairy tales of Straparola, the Milanese (1550).

FAITH (Brown), wife of Goodman Brown.  He sees her in his fantasy of the witches’ revel in the forest, and calls to her to “look up to heaven.”—­Hawthorne, Mosses from an Old Manse (1854).

Faith (Derrick).  A beautiful, unsophisticated girl, whose accomplished tutor instructs her in belles lettres, natural philosophy, religion and love.  He becomes a clergyman and she marries him.—­Susan Warner, Say and Seal (1860).

Faith Gartney.  A city girl whose parents remove to the country before she has an opportunity to enter society.  She is partially betrothed to Paul Rushleigh, but under the influence of nature, and association with an older and nobler man, outgrows her early lover, and marries Roger Armstrong.—­A.D.T.  Whitney, Faith Gartney’s Girlhood (1863).

FAITHFUL, a companion of Christian in his walk to the Celestial City.  Both were seized at Vanity Fair, and Faithful, being burnt to death, was taken to heaven, in a chariot of fire.—­Bunyan, Pilgrim’s Progress, i. (1678).

Faithful (Jacob), the title and hero of a sea tale, by Captain Marryat (1835).

Faithful (Father of the), Abraham.—­Rom. iv.; Gal. iii. 6-9.