Yule-Tide StoriesBenjamin Thorpe Henry G. Bohn, 1853 - 504 pages |
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... king should marry the waiting- woman , and make her queen over all his realm . 66 As time passed on the king's daughter grew up to be the fairest maid in all the land ; while the queen's daughters were as ugly in person as in ...
... king should marry the waiting- woman , and make her queen over all his realm . 66 As time passed on the king's daughter grew up to be the fairest maid in all the land ; while the queen's daughters were as ugly in person as in ...
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... king's daughter , and had come out to divert herself , with the hope , in some degree , of forgetting her heavy affliction . " What affliction have you , then ? " asked the old woman . ' Well may I grieve , " answered the princess ...
... king's daughter , and had come out to divert herself , with the hope , in some degree , of forgetting her heavy affliction . " What affliction have you , then ? " asked the old woman . ' Well may I grieve , " answered the princess ...
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... king's daughter did as she was desired , gathered moss , twigs , and dry wood , and kindled a fire on the mountain's brow . When she had done this the old man said to her , " Go now further on the mountain , and you will find a pot full ...
... king's daughter did as she was desired , gathered moss , twigs , and dry wood , and kindled a fire on the mountain's brow . When she had done this the old man said to her , " Go now further on the mountain , and you will find a pot full ...
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... king's daughter did so , and the old man then said , " Place yourself on the brink of the mountain . " The princess did so , and at the same moment perceived the queen and her daughters coming along the road just beneath the mountain ...
... king's daughter did so , and the old man then said , " Place yourself on the brink of the mountain . " The princess did so , and at the same moment perceived the queen and her daughters coming along the road just beneath the mountain ...
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... king himself was more fondly at- tached to her than to either of his other daughters . It happened one autumn that there was a fair in a town not far from the king's residence , and the king himself re- solved on going to it with his ...
... king himself was more fondly at- tached to her than to either of his other daughters . It happened one autumn that there was a fair in a town not far from the king's residence , and the king himself re- solved on going to it with his ...
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