LITTLE PRUDY SERIES.
FAIRY BOOK.
BY
SOPHIE MAY.
BOSTON:
LEE AND SHEPARD,
(Successors to Phillips, Sampson, & Co.)
1866.
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1865, by
LEE & SHEPARD,
In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.
CRISTOBAL. Page 32.
THIS
BOOK OF FAIRY TALES
IS DEDICATED
TO LITTLE BESSIE.
LITTLE PRUDY SERIES.
BY SOPHIE MAY.
I.
LITTLE PRUDY.
II.
LITTLE PRUDY’S SISTER SUSY.
III.
LITTLE PRUDY’S CAPTAIN HORACE.
IV.
LITTLE PRUDY’S COUSIN GRACIE.
V.
LITTLE PRUDY’S STORY BOOK.
VI.
LITTLE PRUDY’S DOTTY DIMPLE.
CONTENTS.
| PAGE | |
| INTRODUCTION | 9 |
| CRISTOBAL | 19 |
| WILD ROBIN | 35 |
| THE VESPER STAR | 53 |
| THE WATER-KELPIE | 59 |
| THE LOST SYLPHID | 74 |
| THE CASTLE OF GEMS | 100 |
| THE ELF OF LIGHT | 117 |
| THE PRINCESS HILDA | 137 |
| GOLDILOCKS | 160 |
FAIRY BOOK.
INTRODUCTION.
While Prudy was in Indiana visiting theCliffords, and in the midst of her trials withmosquitoes, she said one day,—
“I wouldn’t cry, Aunt ’Ria, only myheart’s breaking. The very next personthat ever dies, I wish they’d ask God toplease stop sending these awful skeeters. Ican’t bear ’em any longer, now, certainly.”
There was a look of utter despair onPrudy’s disfigured face. Bitter tears weretrickling from the two white puff-balls whichhad been her eyes; her forehead and cheekswere of a flaming pink, broken into little[Pg 10]snow-drifts full of stings: she looked as ifshe had just been rescued from an angry beehive.Altogether, her appearance was exceedinglydroll; yet Grace would not allowhe