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Identifier: violetfairybook00lang (find matches)
Title: The violet fairy book
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912 Ford, H. J. (Henry Justice), 1860-1941, ill
Subjects: Folklore Fairy tales
Publisher: London New York : Longmans, Green
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
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Tears before theking found any means of sending news of himself to hisdear queen, but at last he contrived to send this letter: Sell all our castles and palaces, and put all our treasures
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THE LUTE PLAYER 73 in pawn and come and deliver me out of this horribleprison. The queen received the letter, read it, and wept bitterlyas she said to herself, How can I deliver my dearesthusband ? If I go myself and the heathen king sees mehe will just take me to be one of his wives. If I were tosend one of the ministers ! — but I hardly know if I candepend on them. She thought, and thought, and at last an idea cameinto her head. She cut off all her beautiful long brownhair and dressed herself in boys clothes. Then she tookher lute and, without saying anything to anyone, she wentforth into the wide world. She travelled through many lands and saw many cities,and went through many hardships before she got to thetown where the heathen king lived. When she got thereshe walked all round the palace and at the back she sawthe prison. Then she went into the great court in frontof the palace, and taking her lute in her hand, she beganto play so beautifully that one felt as though one couldn

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