This chapter's epigraph comes from a line in Gulliver's Travels. It's a line from a play called "The Princess and the Frog," in which the princess is described as a "fairy-like creature" . In other words, she's kind of like a fairy, but with a little bit of a twist. She's not really a fairy at all, but she does have a pretty good sense of humor. The princess is looking at a peacock, and the peacock tells her that he'll give the bird to her if she'll like it. But the princess can't understand why the peacock would want her to like him, since he's so pretty. She thinks the peacock must be the leader of a feather plucking team, and she'd rather lose her hair than lose her feathers. She wants to talk to the bird alone, but the peacock threatens to pluck her hair if she doesn't like him.