Identifier: violetfairybook00lang (find matches)
Title: The violet fairy book
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912 Ford, H. J. (Henry Justice), 1860-1941, ill
Subjects: Folklore Fairy tales
Publisher: London New York : Longmans, Green
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
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made, and how hewrung his hands and wept and cried that he had lost hisonly companion, you would have been sorry for him.The hearts of the elves were quite melted, and they didall they could to comfort him. 11 shall never find another flute like that, moaned he. I have never heard one whose tone was as sweet asmine! It was cut from the centre of a seven-year-oldcherry tree! ff here is a cherry tree in our garden that is exactlyseven years old, said they. Come with us, and you shallmake yourself another flute. So they all went to the cherry tree, and when theywere standing round it the youth explained that if.hetried to cut it down with an axe he might very likelysplit open the heart of the tree, which was needed for theflute. In order to prevent this, he would make a littlecut in the bark, just large enough for them to put theirfingers in, and with this help he could manage to tearthe tree in two, so that the heart should run no risk ofdamage. The elves did as he told them without a,
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MOGARZEA AND HIS SON 387 thought; then he quickly drew out the axe, which hadbeen sticking into the cleft and behold ! all their fingerswere imprisoned tight in the tree. It was in vain that they shrieked with pain and triedto free themselves. They could do nothing, and the youngman remained cold as marble to all their entreaties. Then he demanded of them Mogarzeas soul. Oh, well, if you must have it, it is in a bottle on thewindow sill, said they, hoping that they might obtaintheir freedom at once. But the)7 were mistaken. You have made so many men suffer, answered he sternly, that it is but just you should suffer yourselves, but to-morrow I will let you go. And he turned towards home, taking his sheep and the soul of Mogarzea with him. Mogarzea was waiting at the door, and as the boydrew near he began scolding him for being so late. But atthe first word of explanation the man became beside himselfwith joy, and he sprang so high into the air that the falsesoul which the elves had giv

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