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Title: Mopsa the Fairy

Author: Jean Ingelow

Release Date: June 18, 2010 [EBook #32867]

Language: English

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MOPSA THE FAIRY

BY JEAN INGELOW

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS

Boston
Little, Brown, and Company
1919

Author's Edition.

DEDICATED TO MY DEAR LITTLE COUSIN JANE HOLLWAY.

[Illustration: THE ENCHANTED BAY.

"Look at those five grand ones with high prows: they were part of the
Spanish Armada."--PAGE 16.]

CONTENTS.

CHAP. PAGE
I. Above the Clouds. 1
II. Captain Jack. 14
III. Winding-Up Time. 23
IV. Bees and Other Fellow-Creatures. 42
V. The Parrot in His Shawl. 60
VI. The Town With Nobody in It. 80
VII. Half-A-Crown. 91
VIII. A Story. 106
IX. After The Party. 121
X. Mopsa Learns Her Letters. 133
XI. Good-Morning, Sister. 146
XII. They Run Away From Old Mother Fate. 158
XIII. Melon Seeds. 174
XIV. Reeds and Rushes. 187
XV. The Queen's Wand. 199
XVI. Failure. 219

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

The Enchanted Bay. Frontispiece
Jack's New Friend. 82
Jack's Slave. 98
A Story.