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Title: The violet fairy book
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912 Ford, H. J. (Henry Justice), 1860-1941, ill
Subjects: Folklore Fairy tales
Publisher: London New York : Longmans, Green
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
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t. And did you find nothing else at all? Oh, nothing but a rose tree on the edge of a wood, witha rose hanging on it. Idiots ! cried he. Why, that was they. And hethrew open the door of the seventh stall, where hismightiest goblins were locked in. Bring them to me,however you find them, dead or alive ! thundered he, ; forI will have them ! Tear up the rose tree and the roots too,and dont leave anything behind, however strange it maybe! The fugitives were resting in the shade of a wood, and THE GRATEFUL PRINCE 95 were refreshing themselves with foodand drink. Suddenly the maidenlooked up. Something has hap-pened, said she. The ball hasnearly jumped out of my bosom!Some one is certainly following us,and the danger is near, but the treeshide our enemies from us. As she spoke she took the ballin her hand, and said : Listen to me, my ball, my ball.Be quick and change me into a breeze,And make my lover into a midge. An instant,and the girlwas dissolvedinto thin air,while t li eprince darted
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DANGERS FOLLOWING 96 THE GRATEFUL PRINCE about like a midge. The next moment a crowd of goblinsrushed up, and looked about in search of somethingstrange, for neither a rose bush nor anything else was tobe seen. But they had hardly turned their backs to gohome empty-handed when the prince and the maidenstood on the earth again. We must make all the haste we can, said she, beforethe old man himself comes to seek us, for he will knowus under any disguise. They ran on till they reached such a dark part ofthe forest that, if it had not been for the light shed by theball, they could not have made their way at all. Wornout and breathless, they came at length to a large stone,and here the ball began to move restlessly. The maiden,seeing this, exclaimed : Listen to me, my ball, my ball.Roll the stone quickly to one side,That we may find a door. And in a moment the stone had rolled away, and theyhad passed through the door to the world again. Now we are safe, cried she. Here the old wizardhas n

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