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Title: The yellow fairy book
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912
Subjects: Fairy tales
Publisher: London : New York : Longmans, Green, And Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
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er old mans door,who also told him that it was three hundred years since he hadseen anyone, and asked him where he was going. I am going to see if I can find anyone that can tell me wherethe Blue Mountains are, he said. If you will stay with me to-night, said the old man, I have abook of the history of the world, and I shall know where they arebefore daylight, if there is such a place in it at all. He stayed there all night, but there was not a word in the bookabout the Blue Mountains. Seeing that he was rather cast down, theold man told him that he had a brother nine hundred miles away,and that if information could be got about them from anyone itwould be from him ; and I will enable you, he said, to reach theplace where he lives before night. So he blew his whistle, and theIrishman landed at the brothers house before nightfall. Whenthe old man saw him he said he had not seen a single man forthree hundred years, and was very much surprised to see anyonecome to him now. ^-^•^s-— -
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JTRe Irishmaa arrived at th& THE BLUE MOUNTAINS 203 Where are you going to ? he said. I am going about asking for the Blue Mountains, said theIrishman. The Blue Mountains ? said the old man. Yes, said the Irishman. I never heard the name before ; but if they do exist I shallfind them out. I am master of all the birds in the world, and haveonly to blow my whistle and every one will corne to me. I shallthen ask each of them to tell where it came from, and if there isany way of finding out the I.lue Mountains that is it. So he blew his whistle, and when he blew it then all the birds ofthe world began to gather. The old man questioned each of themas to where they had come from, but there was not one of themthat had come from the Blue Mountains. After he had run overthem all, however, he missed a big Kagle that was wanting, andwondered that it had not come. Soon afterwards he saw some-thing big coming towards him, darkening the sky. It kept comingnearer and growing bigger, and what was

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