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The Frost-King: Or, the Power of Love
Eva’s Visit to Fairy-Land
The Flower’s Lesson
Lily-bell and Thistledown
Little Bud
Clover-Blossom
Little Annie’s Dream; Or, the. Fairy Flower
Ripple, the Water-Spirit
Fairy Song
Flower Fables
by Louisa May Alcott
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Then she went to the ugly brown spiders, and in gentle words told them, how in Fairy Land their kindred spun all the elfin cloth, and in return the Fairies gave them food, and then how happily they lived among the green leaves, spinning garments for their neighbors. “And you too,” said she, “shall spin for me, and I will give you better food than helpless insects. You shall live in peace, and spin your delicate threads into a mantle for the stern King; and I will weave golden threads amid the gray, that when folded over his cold heart gentle thoughts may enter in and make it their home.”
And while she gayly sung, the little weavers spun their silken threads, the flies on glittering wings flew lovingly above her head, and over all the golden light shone softly down.
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