Identifier: crimsonfairybook00lang (find matches)
Title: The crimson fairy book
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912 Ford, H. J. (Henry Justice), 1860-1941, ill
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Publisher: London New York : Longmans, Green and Co.
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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it till to-morrow.Perhaps I can tell you then. So the next morningshe blew on her pipe, and lo! and behold every magpiein the world flew up. That is to say, all the magpiesexcept one who had broken a leg and a wing. The oldwoman sent after it at once, and when she questioned themagpies the crippled one was the only one who knewwhere the three bulrushes were. Then the prince started off with the lame magpie.They went on and on till they reached a great stone wall,many, many feet high. * Now, prince, said the magpie, the three bulrushesare behind that wall. The prince wasted no time. He set his horse at thewall and leaped over it. Then he looked about for thethree bulrushes, pulled them up and set off with them onhis way home. As he rode along one of the bulrusheshappened to knock against something. It split open and,only think ! out sprang a lovely girl, who said: Myhearts love, you are mine and I am yours; do give me aglass of water. But how could the prince give it her when there was
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LOVELY ILONKA 5 no water at hand ? So the lovely maiden flew away.He split the second bulrush as an experiment and justthe same thing happened. How careful he was of the third bulrush ! He waitedtill he came to a well, and there he split it open, and outsprang a maiden seven times lovelier than either of theothers, and she too said: My hearts love, I am yoursand you are mine; do give me a glass of water. This time the water was ready and the girl did not flyaway, but she and the prince promised to love each otheralways. Then they set out for home. They soon reached the princes country, and as hewished to bring his promised bride back in a fine coachhe went on to the town to fetch one. In the field wherethe well was, the kings swineherds and cowherds werefeeding their droves, and the prince left Ilonka (for thatwas her name) in their care. Unluckily the chief swineherd had an ugly olddaughter, and whilst the prince was away he dressed herup in fine clothes, and threw Ilonka into the we

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