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Title: The Golden Spears
And Other Fairy Tales

Author: Edmund Leamy

Illustrator: Corinne Turner

Release Date: July 28, 2007 [EBook #22168]

Language: English

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[Illustration: "She beckoned the children to her"]

THE GOLDEN SPEARS

And Other Fairy Tales

BY

EDMUND LEAMY

ILLUSTRATIONS BY CORINNE TURNER

New York
Desmond FitzGerald, Inc.

Copyright, 1911
By DESMOND FITZGERALD, INC.
_All Rights Reserved_

CONTENTS

PAGE

PREFACE vii

INTRODUCTORY NOTE X

THE GOLDEN SPEARS 1

THE HOUSE IN THE LAKE 23

THE ENCHANTED CAVE 49

THE HUNTSMAN'S SON 76

THE FAIRY TREE OF DOOROS 101

THE LITTLE WHITE CAT 123

PRINCESS FINOLA AND THE DWARF 149

NOTES 170

ILLUSTRATIONS

"She beckoned the children to her" _Frontispiece_

FACING PAGE

"'I have mourned you as dead, my darling,' said he" 39

"The queen wished to know if he would join them" 58

"Fergus knew it was the Pooka, the wild horse of the mountains" 81

"He was very sad, and tired" 106

"At the sight of him the prince remembered everything" 137

"Standing before him was the little princess"