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Loretta Ellen Brady. The Green Forest Fairy Book
The Green Forest Fairy Book
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I
DAME GRUMBLE AND HER CURIOUS APPLE TREE
I
II
III
IV
CHAPTER II
A TALE OF THE NORTHLAND KINGDOM
I
II
III
CHAPTER III
THE LITTLE TREE THAT NEVER GREW UP
CHAPTER IV
THE TALE OF PUNCHINELLO
CHAPTER V
THE STRANGE TALE OF BROWN BEAR
CHAPTER VI
THE BEGGAR PRINCESS
CHAPTER VII
SWEEP AND LITTLE SWEEP
I
II
III
CHAPTER VIII
KINGS AND QUEENS AND PEASANT FOLK
CHAPTER IX
THE GOOSE GIRL AND THE BLUE GANDER
CHAPTER X
THE LITTLE BROWN MAN
CHAPTER XI
A TALE FOR HALLOWEEN
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Loretta Ellen Brady
Published by Good Press, 2021
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What was the secret source of the Traveler's noble qualities was a mystery to all folk. Some said the Traveler kept his cheerful spirit because of a certain great cloak that he always wore. This cloak, they said, was made of wool woven from the fleece of fairy sheep and had great powers of happiness. Others said that in a far-off country the Traveler had drunk deeply of a certain magic well, the waters of which were said to bless one with a kindly heart forevermore. Still others thought the Traveler's power over cares and sorrow lay in the plain wood staff he always carried. But though the secret of his soothing charm was thus uncertain, certain it was that the Traveler paid a visit to Dame Grumble and her son one chill autumn evening, and the story of it all is this:
It happened one day, as the Traveler was walking along the road that led up to the country quite close to the top of the earth, he chanced to meet the North Wind. Now the North Wind loved to tease and play his tricks on every one, and so he seized the Traveler's hat and blew it five fields off; he swept stinging dust into his eyes and wrapped his cloak so tightly around him that but for his staff the Traveler would have stumbled. Though he was so bothered and annoyed, the Traveler did not complain. He loosed his cloak and wiped his eyes of the dust, then once again he set upon his way.
