Old Hungarian Fairy Tales

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Baroness Orczy. Old Hungarian Fairy Tales

Old Hungarian Fairy Tales

Table of Contents

Preface

Uletka and the White Lizard

The Suitors of the Princess Fire-Fly

The Twin Hunchbacks

Mr. Cuttlefish’s Love Story

Forget-me-not

The Enchanted Cat

The Wishing Skin

“That’s Not True”

THE END

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Baroness Orczy

Published by Good Press, 2021

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Away she sped, quickly past the poplars and the enchanted palm tree, till she was so tired and her feet so sore that she could hardly walk, but at last she came up to the tall solitary beech, standing towering above all the other trees of the forest. She went round it, and there in the very centre of the trunk, she discovered a little door. She knocked, but no one came; only the squirrels chattered together and called, “Who is that knocking at the Gnomes’ door? whilst a blackbird echoing, said, “Yes; who can that be knocking at the Gnomes’ door?”

At last, Uletka, tired of knocking, turned the little handle and went in. There, right in the very heart of the tree was a room with nine little chairs, and a table carved out of the wood of the tree, and on the table were dishes and spoons of wood, and a great feast of nuts, berries and other kinds of fruit, and large bowls full of delicious honey.

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