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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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oft colour flushed into hercheeks, her lips parted with a smile, and inanother minute she sat upright glowing- withrestored health and beauty. Her eyes metthose of the young Prince with a new look,which made his heart stop for an instant andthen throb again with tumultuous joy, as he 176 The Water Lily fell on one knee and gently kissed the handwhich she impulsively extended to him.The Lily-maiden was human at last. A month later, a great festival was held tocommemorate the wredding of Prince Beviswith Princess Lily. His chief bridal gift toher was a bracelet of emeralds, its centralornament being a water-lily cut from onegreat diamond, in the middle of which wasfirmly embedded the magic pearl. Thebracelet was fitted carefully to her wrist andsecured by a lock, the key of which the Princedropped into the sea during the weddingvoyage. So unless some one finds it again,it is not likely that the Princess will everresume the form of a white water-lily. . --:w YC3RARY ASTO*.t.ENOX AND ON3.
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PRINCESS ZORA HAULS DOWN HER FLAG The Pirate Princess /T~SHERE was once a certain King who hadseven daughters and no sons. This o was no grief to him, for he said : Sons areso much trouble. As soon as they grow upthey get into debt, or gamble, or take todrink, or make low marriages, or sing music-hall sones. Now, gfirls do none of these O O things (this happened many years ago), and you can make them just as useful ifyou go the right way to work. And so he proceeded to educate the Prin-cesses just as if they had been Princes. Eachhad a definite career marked out for her assoon as she attained the age of five years, oreven earlier, and all her up-bringing tendedto fit her for that career. There was, as weshall presently see, one exception, and onlyone, to the rule. M 178 The Pirate Princess The names of the Princesses were asfollows: Aura, Cora, Dora, Flora, Laura,Nora, and Zora. The similarity of thesenames may seem to show a certain lack ofimagination on the part of their parents, bu

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