Fairy tales
Nillywill and Hands-pansy were the most unimportant and happy pair of lovers the world has ever gained or lost. With them it had been a case of love at first blindness since the day when they had tumbled into each other’s arms in the same cradle. And Hands-pansy, when he first...
Nillywill and Hands-pansy were the most unimportant and happy pair of lovers the world has ever gained or lost. With them it had been a case of love at first blindness since the...
2. Part 2When the old witch heard that she thought still to entrap him, and answered joyfully, “Why, kind Sir, surely, kind Sir, if you like it you shall look again! Take another wish, a...
3. Part 3So presently, when the kite was well up into the clouds, as Katipah’s kite had been, she cut the cord, thinking surely that the same fortune would be for her as had been for Kat...
4. Part 4Again Noodle let down the bucket; and this time as he drew it up he looked over into the well’s heart, and saw all the way up the side a hundred blue arms reaching out crystal s...
5. Part 5“Tell me quickly of the Camphor-Worm,” cried the youth as he feasted his eyes on the Princess’s loveliness, made more unendurable by the awakening within of love. “Where and wha...
6. Part 6“Neither!” said Lubin, “and for mending a shoe my charge is only a penny; but for mending _that_ shoe, and for all the worry and temptation to make it my own and run off with it...
7. Part 7And as he said the words one part of the cloth unwove itself from the rest, and ran in ripples up the coverlet, and on to the pillow where the Princess’s head lay. There it coil...
8. Part 8But she was weary, was weary of saying “No” to wooers she did not love; and often when alone she would cry that her riches and her power and her glory might vanish away from her...
9. Part 9She answered smiling, for the memory of her home was sweet to her, “Outside, the Moon is cold and barren; but within it is very warm and rich and fertile; more beautiful than an...
10. Part 10Now at this time there was one King, and only one, who had not succeeded in losing his heart to the Queen’s majesty, in spite of her wealth and power, and all her wonderful beau...
11. Part 11Killian’s partner said, “You alter all my plays, but the way you do them is something to marvel at. Only, why do you always bring them round again to that silly lovers’ ending?”
12. Part 12He went on to the stables; and now who was there to forbid him his heart’s desire to climb on to the back of the King’s great charger, who stood sleeping with beautifully arched...