By Andrew Lang
Andrew Lang's Fairy Books are a chain of twenty-five collections of real and fictional tales for kids, released among 1889 and 1913. the simplest recognized books of the sequence are the twelve collections of fairy stories, referred to as Andrew Lang's "Coloured" Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's Fairy Books of many colours. In all, the volumes characteristic 798 tales, in addition to the 153 poems within the Blue Poetry publication. contains 33 stories from Jutland, Rhodesia, Uganda, and numerous different eu traditions.
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Me. this you was so breathless that ' Ah will kill ! Medio he gasped Do let ' out, me he could not if rest a you hurry me along like but he moment, or ' finish his sentence. ' the houses there he And till left him And he ; swirled fastened to the top of the steeple. there stands Medio Pollito to this day. Madrid, and walk through the streets till And you corne if you go to to the highest church, you will see Medio Pollito perched on his one leg on th steeple, with his one wing drooping at his side, and gazing sadly out of his one eye over the town, j Spanish Tradition.
Mutabor they both cried, and in an instant they were once more transformed. In the rapture of their newly-given lives master and servant fell laughing and weeping into each other's arms. Who shall describe their surprise when they at last turned round and beheld standing towards the ' to the sun, ! them a beautiful lady exquisitely dressed "With a smile she held out her hand to the Caliph, and asked: Do you not recognise your screech owl ? before 1 ! ' The Caliph was so enchanted by her grace and It was she beauty, that he declared being turned into a stork had been the The three set out best piece of luck w hich had ever befallen him.
My faithful geance on me. Still I will not despair friend we will go to the grave of the Prophet, and perhaps at that ! ' They rose from the palace roof, and spread their wings toward Medina. THE STORY OF CALIPH STORK 38 But flying was not quite an easy matter, for the two storks had had but little practice as yet. Oh, rny Lord gasped the Vizier, after a couple of hours, I can get on no longer you really fly too quick for me. Besides, it is nearly evening, and we should do well to find some place in which ' ' ' !