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The Blue Rose Fairy Book Maurice Baring
THE HOOFS OF HIS STEED LEFT BEHIND THEM A TRAIL OF TWINKLING ANEMONES
The Blue Rose Fairy Book
BY
MAURICE BARING
NEW YORK DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY 1911
DEDICATED
TO
MARY and AUBREY
NOTE
One of these stories, "The Glass Mender," appeared first in The English Review, and six of the shorter stories in The Morning Post. I wish to thank the editors and proprietors concerned for their kindness in letting me republish them. The rest of the stories are new.
M. B.
CONTENTS
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THE GLASS MENDER1
THE BLUE ROSE31
THE STORY OF VOX ANGELICA AND LIEBLICH GEDACHT45
THE VAGABOND97
THE MINSTREL137
THE HUNCHBACK, THE POOL, AND THE MAGIC RING151
THE SILVER MOUNTAIN165
THE RING179
THE MERCHANT'S DAUGHTER193
THE CUNNING APPRENTICE219
ORESTES AND THE DRAGON233
THE WISE PRINCESS247
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
And as he galloped through the wood, the hoofs of his steed left behind them a trail of twinkling anemones Frontispiece
One evening he was playing his one-stringed instrument outside a dark wall To face p. 41
As he said this he climbed on to the manuals and disappeared into the heart of the organ " 95
And there stood before the throng a wonderful shining figure with wings " 133
And turning round she saw an old woman, bent and worn, who was muttering a supplication " 139
The sun was shining on the sea and a fresh breeze was blowing " 160
And towards the evening he emerged from the forest and saw the hill before him shining in the sunset " 176
Her mother, when she was walking in the garden of the palace, found a silver horseshoe lying on one of the paths " 181
A garment on which the month of May, and all its flowers, was painted " 210
He changed himself into a hawk " 223
The dragon appeared, and seizing the little Princess with its tail, flew away " 235
She went out on to the step and called out in a loud voice, "Oh, you boisterous winds, bring hither that same carpet on which I used to sit in the house of my father" " 252