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Various. Tales of Wonder Every Child Should Know
Tales of Wonder Every Child Should Know
Table of Contents
I WONDER!
INTRODUCTION
Tales of Wonder
I Wonder
What the Birds Said
The Smith and the Fairies
Little Surya Bai
The Storks and the Night Owl
The Five Queer Brothers
The Lac of Rupees
The Emperor's Nightingale
Hookedy-Crookedy
Arndt's Night Underground
The Unicorn
Destiny
The Queen of the Golden Mines
The Deserter[4]
The Two Melons
The Iron Casket
The Knights of the Fish
Dapplegrim
The Hermit
The Watch-tower Between Earth and Heaven[5]
The Lucky Coin
The Jackal, the Barber and the Brahmin
The Bird of Truth
The Two Genies
Steelpacha[6]
The Buried Moon
The Farmer of Liddesdale
The Badger's Money
The Grateful Foxes
The Black Horse
Truth's Triumph
The Feast of the Lanterns
The Lake of Gems
The Sea-Maiden
The Enchanted Waterfall
The Amadan of the Dough
The Rakshas's Palace
Billy Beg and the Bull
The Princes Fire-flash and Fire-fade
Panch-Phul Ranee
Schippeitaro
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Published by Good Press, 2019
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So as Youngling had felled the oak which shaded the King's palace, and dug a well in the palace-yard, he got the Princess and half the kingdom, as the King had said; but it was lucky for Peter and Paul that they had lost their ears, else they might have grown tired of hearing how everyone said each hour of the day:
"Well, after all, Youngling wasn't so much out of his mind when he took to wondering."
