THE BOOK OF ELVES AND FAIRIES
Reading edition
“THIS IS MAB, THE MISTRESS FAIRY” (page 209)
THE BOOK OF ELVES AND FAIRIES
FOR STORY-TELLING AND READING ALOUD AND FOR THE CHILDREN’S OWN READING
BY FRANCES JENKINS OLCOTT WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY MILO WINTER
BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY The Riverside Press Cambridge 1918
COPYRIGHT, 1918, BY FRANCES JENKINS OLCOTT ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Published October 1918
TO THEODORE OLCOTT PHILLIPS
“Good luck befriend thee, son; for, at thy birth, The FAIRY LADIES danced upon the hearth; The drowsy nurse hath sworn she did them spy Come tripping to the room, where thou didst lie, And sweetly singing round about thy bed Strew all their blessings on thy sleeping head!” MILTON