Identifier: crimsonfairybook00lang (find matches)
Title: The crimson fairy book
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912 Ford, H. J. (Henry Justice), 1860-1941, ill
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Publisher: London New York : Longmans, Green and Co.
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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u do notopen to me at once I will break in the door, and yourhead shall go to join the others. He waited a little, but the door remained shut astightly as before. Then he just put his shoulder to it, andimmediately the wood began to crack. When the giantfound that it was no use keeping it shut, he opened it,saying : I see you are a brave youth. Let there be peacebetween us. And the princa was glad to make peace, for he hadcaught a glimpse of the giants beautiful daughter, andfrom that day he often sought the giants house. Now the queen led a dull life all alone in the castle,and to amuse herself she paid visits to the robber captain,who flattered her till at last she agreed to marry him.But as she was much afraid of her son, she told therobber that the next time the prince went to bathe in theriver, he was to steal the sword from its place above thebed, for without it the young man would have no powerto punish him for his boldness. The robber captain thought this good counsel, and the
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