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Title: All the Way to Fairyland
Fairy Stories

Author: Evelyn Sharp

Illustrator: Mrs. Percy Dearmer

Release Date: November 3, 2009 [EBook #30400]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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[Illustration: Cover art]

All the Way to Fairyland

Fairy Stories

BY

EVELYN SHARP

AUTHOR OF "WYMPS"

WITH EIGHT COLOURED ILLUSTRATIONS

AND A COVER BY MRS. PERCY DEARMER

JOHN LANE

THE BODLEY HEAD

LONDON AND NEW YORK

1898

COPYRIGHT, 1897, BY

JOHN LANE.

FIRST EDITION

University Press:

JOHN WILSON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE, U.S.A.

_By the Same author:_

WYMPS: FAIRY TALES. With eight coloured illustrations by Mrs. Percy
Dearmer.

THE MAKING OF A SCHOOLGIRL.

AT THE RELTON ARMS.

THE MAKING OF A PRIG.

[Illustration: A PRINCESS FLOATING ABOUT ON A SOFT WHITE CLOUD]

THESE STORIES

ARE FOR

GEOFFREY AND CHRISTOPHER

TRISTAN AND ISEULT

MARGARET AND BOY

AND

EVERARD

AND ALL THE OTHER CHILDREN

WHO WOULD LIKE TO GO

ALL THE WAY TO FAIRYLAND

Contents

CHAPTER

I. THE COUNTRY CALLED NONAMIA
II. WHY THE WYMPS CRIED
III. THE STORY OF HONEY AND SUNNY
IV. THE LITTLE PRINCESS AND THE POET
V. THE WONDERFUL TOYMAKER
VI. THE PROFESSOR OF PRACTICAL JOKES
VII. THE DOLL THAT CAME STRAIGHT FROM FAIRYLAND
VIII. THOSE WYMPS AGAIN!

List of Illustrations

BY MRS. PERCY DEARMER

I. A PRINCESS FLOATING ABOUT ON A SOFT WHITE CLOUD . _Frontispiece_

II. THE WYMPS SAY THAT QUEER BEGAN IT

III. SUNNY WAS SO ASTONISHED THAT SHE STOPPED CRYING AT ONCE

IV. "COME WITH ME, POET," SAID THE LITTLE PRINCESS

V. THE ROCKING-HORSES RUSHED OVER THE GROUND

VI. HE CURLED HIMSELF UP IN THE SUN AND CLOSED HIS EYES

VII. THE LADY EMMELINA IS ALWAYS KEPT IN HER PROPER PLACE NOW

VIII. "WILL YOU COME AND PLAY WITH ME, LITTLE WISDOM?"

The Country Called Nonamia

Ever so long ago, in the wonderful coun