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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 sit up and walk. Then he set out for the town, accompanied by hisfaithful beasts. And when they reached the kings palacethey found that preparations for a great feast were beingmade, for the princess was to marry the coachman. So the prince walked into the palace, and went straightup to the coachman and said : What token have you gotthat you killed the dragon and won the hand of the »/ princess ? I have her token here — this ring and half herhandkerchief. And when the king saw these tokens he knew that theprince was speaking the truth. So the coachman wasbound in chains and thrown into prison, and the princewas married to the princess and rewarded with half thekingdom. One day, soon after his marriage, the prince waswalking through the woods in the evening, followed byhis faithful beasts. Darkness came on, and he lost hisway, and wandered about among the trees looking for thepath that would lead him back to the palace. As hewalked he saw the light of a fire, and making his way to
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THREE PRINCES AND THEIR BEASTS 49 it lie found an old woman raking sticks and dried leavestogether, and burning them in a glade of the wood. As he was very tired, and the night was very dark, theprince determined not to wander further. So he askedthe old woman if he might spend the night beside herfire. Of course you may/ she answered. * But I amafraid of your beasts. Let me hit them with my rod, andthen I shall not be afraid of them. 1 Very well, said the prince, I dont mind ; and shestretched out her rod and hit the beasts, and in onemoment they were turned into stone, and so was theprince. Now soon after this the princes youngest brothercame to the cross-roads with the three birches, where thebrothers had parted from each other when they set outon their wanderings. Remembering what they had agreedto do, he walked round the two trees, and when he sawthat blood oozed from the cut in the eldest princes treehe knew that his brother must be dead. So he set out,followed by his beasts, an

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