Wonder-Box Tales
by Jean Ingelow
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About this eBook
- Author
- Ingelow, Jean, 1820-1897
- Credits
- E-text prepared by Sigal Alon, Fox in the Stars, Mary Meehan, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PZ: Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres
- Subject
- Fairy tales
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 21014
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/21014
- Release Date
- April 8, 2007
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Untitled
- 2.By JEAN INGELOW — With Illustrations by Diantha W. Horne — H. M. CALDWELL CO. PUBLISHERS NEW YORK & BOSTON — Copyright, 1902 By Dana Estes & Company — All rights reserved — "'TO BE SURE I CAN,' REPLIED THE LARK."
- 3.CONTENTS
- 4.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- 5.WONDER-BOX TALES
- 6.THE OUPHE [1] OF THE WOOD — "SO HE SAT DOWN AS CLOSE TO THE FIRE AS HE COULD, AND SPREAD OUT HIS HANDS TO THE FLAMES." — "COMING HOME ON TOP OF IT, DRIVING THE FOUR GRAY HORSES HIMSELF."
- 7.THE FAIRY WHO JUDGED HER NEIGHBORS — "WHILE SHE WAS FITTING ON HER SHOES, SHE SAW THE LARK'S FRIEND."
- 8.THE PRINCE'S DREAM — "THEN HE RECLINED BESIDE THE CHAFING-DISH AND INHALED THE HEAVY PERFUME." — "'I COULD NOT DO SO,' HE REPLIED, 'ONLY THAT AS I GO ON I KEEP LIGHTENING IT.'"
- 9.THE WATER-LILY — "LIVED ON THE BORDERS OF ONE OF THE GREAT AMERICAN FORESTS." — "THE NEXT MOMENT A BEAUTIFUL LITTLE CREATURE STOOD UPON HIS HAND."
- 10.A LOST WAND — "'OH, DON'T GO,' CRIED HULDA. 'I AM GOING UP-STAIRS TO FETCH MY WAND.'" — "THE PEDLAR HAD NOW SUNK UP TO HIS WAIST."
- 11.The Editha Series — NEW EDITION, 1906 — H. M. CALDWELL COMPANY Publishers NEW YORK AND BOSTON
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