The Grey Fairy Book

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Lang Andrew. The Grey Fairy Book

Preface

Donkey Skin

The Goblin Pony

An Impossible Enchantment

The Story Of Dschemil and Dschemila

Janni and the Draken

The Partnership of the Thief and the Liar

Fortunatus and His Purse

The Goat-faced Girl

What Came of Picking Flowers

The Story of Bensurdatu

The Magician’s Horse

The Little Gray Man

Herr Lazarus and the Draken

The Story of the Queen of the Flowery Isles

Udea and Her Seven Brothers

The White Wolf

Mohammed with the Magic Finger

Bobino

The Dog and the Sparrow

The Story of the Three Sons of Hali

The Story of the Fair Circassians

The Jackal and the Spring

The Bear

The Sunchild

The Daughter Of Buk Ettemsuch

Laughing Eye and Weeping Eye, or the Limping Fox

The Unlooked-for Prince

The Simpleton

The Street Musicians

The Twin Brothers

Cannetella

The Ogre

A Fairy’s Blunder

Long, Broad, and Quickeye

Prunella

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There was once upon a time a king who was so much beloved by his subjects that he thought himself the happiest monarch in the whole world, and he had everything his heart could desire. His palace was filled with the rarest of curiosities, and his gardens with the sweetest flowers, while in the marble stalls of his stables stood a row of milk-white Arabs, with big brown eyes.

Strangers who had heard of the marvels which the king had collected, and made long journeys to see them, were, however, surprised to find the most splendid stall of all occupied by a donkey, with particularly large and drooping ears. It was a very fine donkey; but still, as far as they could tell, nothing so very remarkable as to account for the care with which it was lodged; and they went away wondering, for they could not know that every night, when it was asleep, bushels of gold pieces tumbled out of its ears, which were picked up each morning by the attendants.

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So she fetched the rope, the hatchet, and the pin and the needles, and said, ‘Take them, and put them in the pocket of your cloak, and be sure not to lose them.’

Dschemil put them carefully in his pocket, and tied the rope round her, and let her down over the wall.

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