The Fairy Nightcaps

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Fanny Aunt. The Fairy Nightcaps

PREFACE TO THE CHILDREN

THE FAIRIES' LIFE

THE CHILDREN'S LIFE

THE FAIRIES' LIFE

THE CHILDREN'S LIFE

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Dear Children,

Here is the last Nightcap book, making six in all. The story of "The Three Little Fishes" was taken (but very much altered) from a clever book for grown folks, written, I believe, nearly two hundred years ago; but all the rest is true, "real true."

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"And I, your Majesty," said Beeswing with Ripple and Firefly, "will order our regiment – the seventh – to encamp under the sedges on the shore, half to keep watch, while the other half sleep in the swaying branches of the water-willows."

"Give us something to do for the dear children, dearest Queen!" cried Dewdrop and Lilliebelle, two of the most famous beauties of the court, and, what is far better, as good as they were beautiful; "let us also help to make them happy."

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