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Title: Fairy Book

Author: Sophie May

Release Date: November 24, 2008 [EBook #27321]

Language: English

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LITTLE PRUDY SERIES.

FAIRY BOOK.

BY

SOPHIE MAY.

BOSTON:
LEE AND SHEPARD,
(SUCCESSORS TO PHILLIPS, SAMPSON, & CO.)
1866.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1865, by
LEE & SHEPARD,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District
of Massachusetts.

[Illustration: CRISTOBAL. Page 32.]

THIS
BOOK OF FAIRY TALES
IS DEDICATED
TO LITTLE BESSIE.

LITTLE PRUDY SERIES.

BY SOPHIE MAY.

I.
LITTLE PRUDY.

II.
LITTLE PRUDY'S SISTER SUSY.

III.
LITTLE PRUDY'S CAPTAIN HORACE.

IV.
LITTLE PRUDY'S COUSIN GRACIE.

V.
LITTLE PRUDY'S STORY BOOK.

VI.
LITTLE PRUDY'S DOTTY DIMPLE.

CONTENTS.

PAGE
INTRODUCTION 9

CRISTOBAL 19

WILD ROBIN 35

THE VESPER STAR 53

THE WATER-KELPIE 59

THE LOST SYLPHID 74

THE CASTLE OF GEMS 100

THE ELF OF LIGHT 117

THE PRINCESS HILDA 137

GOLDILOCKS 160

FAIRY BOOK.

INTRODUCTION.

While Prudy was in Indiana visiting the Cliffords, and in the midst of
her trials with mosquitoes, she said one day,--

"I wouldn't cry, Aunt 'Ria, only my heart's breaking. The very next
person that ever dies, I wish they'd ask God to please stop se