Australian Fairy Tales

The Stories in this little book have been set down almost in the same words in which they were told. How the telling of them came about is a very simple matter. Having three chi...

The King, under the circumstances, was only too delighted to give his consent, and added that, if at any time the Prince found himself in any difficulty and wanted advice and as...

Very ingenious also, was the way in which this feat was accomplished! An enormous basket-basin was first woven out of bamboo leaves and thoroughly stiffened with beeswax. It was...

When the wind blows the petals from the flowers—as it does every day—the Fairies at night time go and collect them. They at once dip them into a mixture made of an extract of bl...

Of that marriage, and of all that took place in connection with it, you shall be fully informed when time and circumstances permit. Meanwhile, please remember, that in the Princ...

Facing the “Official Recorder,” to the right and left, in two great triangles, sat the wedding guests. There was thus formed a middle pathway up which the Bridal Party was to co...

“‘Turning northward, for days and days we seemed to do nothing but drift and drift, the weather all the time becoming warmer and warmer. Then, just as if an intervening screen h...

“‘Not at all!’ he replied, in his soft, slow tone; ‘I should certainly die away just as an echo does when fleeing into space; but it really would not hurt me, I assure you!’

In the days before to-day, Ere the Stars were made to stay In the places where, since then, they shed their light! They, the Children of the Sky, Full of fun, but coy and shy, T...