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and dogs and was overtaken by a mist, in which, familiar as the country was to him, he lost his way. In vain he raised his voice high, and listened low, no sound of man or beast came back to him through the thickening vapour. Then night fell, and darkness was added to the fog, so that Brockburn needed to sound every step with his _rung_[3]

- The Laird And The Man Of Peace

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The City Under The Sea

The Firelight Fairy Book

The U.S.A.

Once upon a time, in a country of mountains which bordered upon the sea, dwelt a rich merchant who had three sons. The eldest and the second-born were his joy, for they were merchants too, and remained at his side; but the youngest often caused him much anxiety. Not that this youngest son was a wild or a bad lad; b ...

The Shepherd Of Clouds

The Firelight Fairy Book

The U.S.A.

Once upon a time a young husband and wife named Giles and Phyllida lived in a cottage in the heart of a great plain. League upon league, the rich land fell away to the west, there to end at a wall of high mountains into whose fastnesses no one had ever ventured. Yet the mountains were very beautiful. In the cold of ...

The Queen Of Lantern Land

The Firelight Fairy Book

The U.S.A.

Once upon a time the youngest son of a king became filled with the desire to go abroad and see the world. He got his father's permission to depart, kissed his parents good-bye, mounted his black horse, and galloped away down the high road. Soon the gray towers of the old castle in which he was born hid themselves b ...

The Adventures Of Florian

The Firelight Fairy Book

The U.S.A.

Once upon a time there lived in an old and ruinous house by the shore of the wild sea, a widowed nobleman and his only child, a daughter named Isabella. They were very poor in spite of their high birth, so poor that one by one the fields and woods of their little domain had been sold in order to buy the bare necess ...

The Seller Of Dreams

The Firelight Fairy Book

The U.S.A.

Once upon a time a mother called her only son into the kitchen, gave him a basket of fine, fresh eggs, and bade him carry them to his Aunt Jane, who lived a few miles down the valley. The son, a lively lad about twelve years of age, obeyed his mother with joy, and clapping his little green hat on his head, stepped ...

The Treasure Castle

The Firelight Fairy Book

The U.S.A.

Once upon a time a hunter was roaming through the wildwood when he heard a voice crying piteously for aid. Following the sound, the hunter plunged ahead, and discovered a dwarf caught in a pit which had been dug to trap wild animals. After the hunter had rescued the dwarf from his prison, the little man said to ...

Prince Sneeze

The Firelight Fairy Book

The U.S.A.

Once upon a time a king and a queen gave a magnificent party in honor of the christening of their new-born son, Prince Rolandor. To this party the royal parents took good care to invite every single fairy in Fairyland, for they knew very well the unhappy consequences of forgetting to invite fairies to christenings. ...

Marianna

The Firelight Fairy Book

The U.S.A.

Once upon a time a wicked nobleman rose in rebellion against his rightful king, and taking the royal forces by surprise, defeated them and seized the kingdom. The dethroned King, who had been severely wounded in battle, was cast in prison, where he soon died; but his widow, the Queen, managed to escape from the pal ...

The Lost Half-Hour

The Firelight Fairy Book

The U.S.A.

Once upon a time there was an old widow woman who had three sons: the first two were clever enough, but the third, Bobo by name, was little better than a silly simpleton. All his mother's scoldings and beatings--and she smacked the poor lad soundly a dozen times a day--did him no good whatever. Now it came to pa ...

The Enchanted Elm

The Firelight Fairy Book

The U.S.A.

Once upon a time, while riding, a brave, young prince dashed merrily ahead of his friends, and after galloping across a ploughed field, turned his horse's head down a grassy road leading to a wood. For some time he cantered easily along, expecting any moment to hear the shouts and halloos of his friends following a ...

The Bird Boy

The Firelight Fairy Book

The U.S.A.

Late one autumn night a young queen stood by her window, gazing upon the silent and deserted meadows gleaming in the moonlight. Suddenly, far, far up in the sky, she heard the weird cry of birds flying southward, and lifting her eyes, the Queen beheld bird after bird fly across the golden shield of the moon. "Oh ...

The Master Mariner

The Firelight Fairy Book

The U.S.A.

Once upon a time a fine young fisherman rose early in the morning, and sailed alone to the fishing-grounds. There was very little wind, and beneath the speckled clouds and the cold, pearly light of the late dawn, the broad, low billows went slowly and unrippled to the land. The fisherman cast anchor, and threw ov ...

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