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The Broom Fairies and Other Stories
The Broom Fairies and Other Stories
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The Broom Fairies and Other Stories, written by Ethel M. Gate and published in New Haven, Ct. in 1917. Contains 8 Fairy Tales from the early 20th century. (124 pages)
The Publisher has copy-edited this book to improve the formatting, style and accuracy of the text to make it readable. This did not involve changing the substance of the text. Some books, due to age and other factors may contain imperfections. Since there are many books such as this one that are important and beneficial to literary interests, we have made it digitally available and have brought it back into print for the preservation of printed works of the past.
Contents:
The Broom Fairies
A Frozen Princess
The Red, the Black, and the Yellow
Queen Mab's Horns
The Sister with the Yellow Hair
Little and Good
The Eldest Sister
The Eight Roads
Excerpts:
...ONCE upon a time ever so long ago a king and queen sat in their palace with their new-born son upon his mother's knees, and all day long their subjects, from the highest to the lowest, toiled up the polished marble steps that led to the throne-room and presented their gifts to the baby prince. As the day wore on to afternoon it grew hotter and hotter, and the king nodded under his gold mantle and jeweled crown, and the courtiers wished the audience would come to an end and allow them to rest in the cool gardens of the palace.
...Among the people who came was an old, old woman. She did not come in by the golden gates with the rest of the crowd, but she slipped in by a back door and up the back stairs. And as she went she peeped into the kitchen and saw the cook stealing the victuals and the scullery-boy stealing the dripping; and she peeped into the cellar and saw the cellarer stealing the wine, and into the bedrooms and saw the tire-women stealing the clothes, and her old eyes twinkled brightly as she went into the throne-room and stood among the courtiers in her shabby cloak.
..."Well, mother," said the king graciously, "what have you brought?"
..."What you need," said the old woman, "is a clean sweep. I will give you a new broom."
..."Woman!" said the king angrily, "we want nothing from you!"
..."Very well," said the old woman, "then you shall have nothing."
The Publisher has copy-edited this book to improve the formatting, style and accuracy of the text to make it readable. This did not involve changing the substance of the text. Some books, due to age and other factors may contain imperfections. Since there are many books such as this one that are important and beneficial to literary interests, we have made it digitally available and have brought it back into print for the preservation of printed works of the past.
Contents:
The Broom Fairies
A Frozen Princess
The Red, the Black, and the Yellow
Queen Mab's Horns
The Sister with the Yellow Hair
Little and Good
The Eldest Sister
The Eight Roads
Excerpts:
...ONCE upon a time ever so long ago a king and queen sat in their palace with their new-born son upon his mother's knees, and all day long their subjects, from the highest to the lowest, toiled up the polished marble steps that led to the throne-room and presented their gifts to the baby prince. As the day wore on to afternoon it grew hotter and hotter, and the king nodded under his gold mantle and jeweled crown, and the courtiers wished the audience would come to an end and allow them to rest in the cool gardens of the palace.
...Among the people who came was an old, old woman. She did not come in by the golden gates with the rest of the crowd, but she slipped in by a back door and up the back stairs. And as she went she peeped into the kitchen and saw the cook stealing the victuals and the scullery-boy stealing the dripping; and she peeped into the cellar and saw the cellarer stealing the wine, and into the bedrooms and saw the tire-women stealing the clothes, and her old eyes twinkled brightly as she went into the throne-room and stood among the courtiers in her shabby cloak.
..."Well, mother," said the king graciously, "what have you brought?"
..."What you need," said the old woman, "is a clean sweep. I will give you a new broom."
..."Woman!" said the king angrily, "we want nothing from you!"
..."Very well," said the old woman, "then you shall have nothing."
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