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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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d they would give him sevenor even seven times seven the number of sacks if hewould only go away. Ill tell you what! said Stan at last. I see youdont want me to stay, and I should be very sorry tomake myself disagreeable. I will go at once, but only oncondition that you shall carry the money home yourself,so that I may not be put to shame before my friends. The words were hardly out of his mouth before thedragon had snatched up the sacks and piled them on hisback. Then he and Stan set forth. The way, though really not far, was yet too long forStan, but at length he heard his childrens voices, andstopped short. He did not wish the dragon to knowwhere he lived, lest some day he should come to takeback his treasure. Was there nothing he could say to STAN EOLOVAN 123 get rid of the monster? Suddenly an idea came intoStans head, and he turned round. 41 hardly know what to do, 8aid he. I have ahundred children, and I am afraid they may do you & ^£^&t&^S&tte?&fc> -•
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THE DRAGON ALARMED harm, as they are always ready for a fight. However, Iwill do my best to protect you. A hundred children ! That was indeed no joke ! Thedragon let fall the sacks from terror, and then pickedthem up again. But the children, who had had nothing 124 STAN BOLOVAN to eat since their father had left them, came rushingtowards him, waving knives in their right hands and forksin their left, and crying, Give us dragons flesh ; we willhave dragons flesh. At this dreadful sight the dragon waited no longer:he flung down his sacks where he stood and took flight asfast as he could, so terrified at the fate that awaited himthat from that day he has never dared to show his face inthe world again. (Adapted from Ruinauische Marcheii-3 125 THE TWO FROGS ONCE upon a time in the country of Japan there livedtwo froo-s, one of whom made his home in a ditch near O the town of Osaka, on the sea coast, while the otherdwelt in a clear little stream which ran through the cityof Kioto. At such a

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