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Identifier: onestrandriverot00hall (find matches)
Title: The one strand river, and other fairy tales
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Hall, Alice Marples
Subjects: Fairy tales, English
Publisher: London, D. Nutt

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as the source of disagreement between the king-doms should be settled on the youngcouple, and that they should enterinto possession of it immediately ontheir marriage. The Family Council being once more con-vened, again gave it as their opinion thatZora should be allowed to please herself; and,with her approval, a compromise was arrivedat, by which Prince Rollo was allowed tovisit the Court and plead his cause in person.This he did so successfully that on his de-parture Zora laid out an entirely new schemeof education for the years intervening beforeher marriage, in accordance with which allher sisters took part in the^training of the 2oo The Pirate Princess future Queen. Unlike the former plans, thiswas successfully carried out, and at the timeappointed the happy pair took possession oftheir island kingdom. Their reign was long, happy, and unevent-ful, and signalised only by the extremeinterest which both showed in their navy, andthe especial care of the young Queen torepress piracy.
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H0\\- MANY STRAWS GO TO A GOOSES NESJ ? The Turkey-Girl /^\NCE upon a time, and a very good time it was, though it wasnt in my time, or your time, or any one elses time that ever I heard tell of, there stood a little cottaee in the middle of a wide common, O where lived an old henwife and a young girlsupposed to be her grand-daughter. Youwill, of course, be prepared to hear that theywere really a Princess and her Fairy God-mother ; but no one knew it, and the maidenAmaryllis herself suspected it least of all.She could not remember any home but thepretty cottage overgrown with roses andhoneysuckle that blossomed all the yearround, nor any relative but the old henwife ;and, living as she did apart from the world,it never seemed to her strange that the oldbent woman in the russet gown could giveher such an education that by the time she 202 The Turkey-Girl was eighteen she was the wisest woman in allthe known world. Somehow, I really cannot tell how, thefame of her wonderful learning spr

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