The Olive Fairy Book

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Lang Andrew. The Olive Fairy Book

PREFACE

MADSCHUN

THE BLUE PARROT

GEIRLAUG THE KING’S DAUGHTER

THE STORY OF LITTLE KING LOC

‘A LONG-BOW STORY’

JACKAL OR TIGER?

THE COMB AND THE COLLAR

THE THANKSGIVING OF THE WAZIR

SAMBA THE COWARD

KUPTI AND IMANI

THE STRANGE ADVENTURES OF LITTLE MAIA

DIAMOND CUT DIAMOND

THE GREEN KNIGHT

THE FIVE WISE WORDS OF THE GURU4

THE GOLDEN-HEADED FISH

DORANI

THE SATIN SURGEON

THE BILLY GOAT AND THE KING

THE STORY OF ZOULVISIA

GRASP ALL, LOSE ALL

THE FATE OF THE TURTLE

THE SNAKE PRINCE

THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS IN THE FOREST

THE CLEVER WEAVER

THE BOY WHO FOUND FEAR AT LAST

HE WINS WHO WAITS

THE STEEL CANE

THE PUNISHMENT OF THE FAIRY GANGANA

THE SILENT PRINCESS

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Once upon a time there lived, in a small cottage among some hills, a woman with her son, and, to her great grief, the young man, though hardly more than twenty years of age, had not as much hair on his head as a baby. But, old as he looked, the youth was very idle, and whatever trade his mother put him to he refused to work, and in a few days always came home again.

On a fine summer morning he was lying as usual half asleep in the little garden in front of the cottage when the sultan’s daughter came riding by, followed by a number of gaily dressed ladies. The youth lazily raised himself on his elbow to look at her, and that one glance changed his whole nature.

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And here we must bid them all farewell, feeling sure they will have many years of happiness before them after the terrible trials through which they have passed.

‘Who is Youri?’ asked King Loc.

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