Granny's Wonderful Chair

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Frances Browner. Granny's Wonderful Chair

PREFACE

CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY

CHAPTER II. THE CHRISTMAS CUCKOO

CHAPTER III. THE LORDS OF THE WHITE AND GREY CASTLES

CHAPTER IV. THE GREEDY SHEPHERD

CHAPTER V. THE STORY OF FAIRYFOOT

CHAPTER VI. THE STORY OF CHILDE CHARITY

CHAPTER VII. SOUR AND CIVIL

CHAPTER VIII. THE STORY OF MERRYMIND

CHAPTER IX. PRINCE WISEWIT'S RETURN

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In an old time, long ago, when the fairies were in the world, there lived a little girl so uncommonly fair and pleasant of look, that they called her Snowflower. This girl was good as well as pretty. No one had ever seen her frown or heard her say a cross word, and young and old were glad when they saw her coming.

Snowflower had no relation in the world but a very old grandmother, called Dame Frostyface; people did not like her quite so well as her granddaughter, for she was cross enough at times, but always kind to Snowflower; and they lived together in a little cottage built of peat, and thatched with reeds, on the edge of a great forest; tall trees sheltered its back from the north wind; the mid-day sun made its front warm and cheerful; swallows built in the eaves; daisies grew thick at the door; but there were none in all that country poorer than Snowflower and her grandmother. A cat and two hens were all their live-stock: their bed was dry grass, and the only good piece of furniture in the cottage was a great arm-chair with wheels on its feet, a black velvet cushion, and many curious carvings of flowers and fawns on its dark oaken back.

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"Spare ran to open the door, and in came the cuckoo, carrying on one side of his bill a golden leaf larger than that of any tree in the north country; and in the other, one like that of the common laurel, only it had a fresher green.

"'Here,' it said, giving the gold to Scrub and the green to Spare, 'it is a long carriage from the world's end. Give me a slice of barley bread, for I must tell the north country that the spring has come.'

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