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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Wonderwings and other Fairy Stories + +Author: Edith Howes + +Illustrator: Alicea Polson + +Release Date: January 15, 2007 [EBook #20366] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WONDERWINGS *** + + + + +Produced by Marilynda Fraser-Cunliffe, Janet Blenkinship +and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at +http://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + +</pre> + + +<div class="figcenter"> +<a name="illus-01" id="illus-01"></a> +<img src="images/img.cover.jpg" alt="cover" title="" width = "329" height = "500" /><br /> +</div> + + +<h1>Wonderwings and other Fairy Stories</h1> + +<h4>by</h4> + +<h2>EDITH HOWES</h2> + +<h4>Author of "The Sun's Babies," "Fairy Rings," "Stewart Island,"<br />"Where +the Bell Birds Chime," "Marlborough Sounds," etc.</h4> + +<h3><br />Illustrated by Alicea Polson<br /></h3> + +<p class='center'>Whitcombe & Tombs Limited Auckland, Christchurch, Dunedin and +Wellington, N.Z.<br />Melbourne and London.</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + +<h2><br /><br />CONTENTS</h2> + +<div class='centered'> +<table border="0" cellpadding="2" width="50%" cellspacing="0" summary="Contents"> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='right'>Page</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Wonderwings</td><td align='right'><a href='#Page_7'><b>7</b></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>The Magic Mirror</td><td align='right'><a href='#Page_17'><b>17</b></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Fairy Tenderheart</td><td align='right'><a href='#Page_31'><b>31</b></a></td></tr> +</table></div> +<p><br /><br /></p> +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">7</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 322px; padding-top: 3em; padding-bottom: 3em"> +<a name="illus-001" id="illus-001"></a> +<img src="images/img007.jpg" alt="Come then, said Wonderwings. She took the little" title="" width = "322" height = "500" /><br /> +<span class="caption">"Come then," said Wonderwings. She took the little fairy's hand and up they rose into the clear air.</span> +</div> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><br /><a name="Wonderwings" id="Wonderwings"></a>Wonderwings<br /></h2> + +<p>Poppypink sat up in bed and yawned. "Why is everybody getting up so +early?" she asked. "Is it a holiday?"</p> + +<p>The older fairies were dressing themselves and brushing their long fine +hair. "Wonderwings is coming to see us," they said. "Jump up, little +Poppypink."</p> + +<p>"Who is Wonderwings?" she asked.</p> + +<p>"You will see when you are dressed. Hurry, or you will miss her."</p> + +<div class="figright" style="width: 170px; padding-top: 0em; padding-bottom: 0em"> +<a name="illus-002" id="illus-002"></a> +<img src="images/img008.jpg" alt="The older fairies were dressing themselves and combing" title="" width = "170" height = "256" /><br /> +<span class="caption">"The older fairies were dressing themselves and combing their long fine hair."</span> +</div> + +<p>"Oh dear! I am so sleepy," said Poppypink, and she yawned again. "I +don't care about<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8">8</a></span> Wonderwings." She snuggled down into the bedclothes +again, and went to sleep.</p> + +<p>Presently she was awakened by the sound of the sweetest singing she had +ever heard, and a flash of brilliant colour went past her window pane of +crystal set in pearl.</p> + +<p>"That must be Wonderwings," she said. "Oh, I must see her. I hope I am +not too late."</p> + +<p>She sprang from bed and dressed so hurriedly that I am afraid her hair +did not receive its due amount of brushing. Then she ran out into the +garden.</p> + +<p>The older fairies stood all in a group, saying loudly "I will go," and +"I will go." And before them, scarcely touching the ground with the tip +of her foot, stood poised a glorious fairy, taller than any other there. +She was altogether beautiful; and her wings—as soon as Poppypink saw +them she knew why the visitor had been called Wonderwings. For they +reached high above her head and almost to the ground, and they glowed +with so many colours that it seemed as if a million jewels had been Hung +upon them and had stuck, growing into a million flashing stars<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">9</a></span> that +made a million little rainbows with every sway and movement of her body.</p> + +<p>"How lovely! Oh, how lovely!" cried Poppypink. She crept nearer to the +beautiful fairy and sat among the daisies at her feet. "See," she cried. +"My wings are small and colourless. Tell me how I may grow wings like +yours." Just as little girls adore beautiful hair, so do little fairies +adore beautiful wings.</p> + +<p>Wonderwings smiled down at her. "Such wings as mine are only to be won +in sadder lands than these," she said. "If you would have them you must +leave your fairyland and come where humans live, and where hunger and +sorrow and death trample the city streets."</p> + +<p>"I will come!" cried Poppypink. "I will come!"</p> + +<p>"Come then," said Wonderwings. She took the little fairy's hand, and up +they all rose into the clear air, flying far and far away till they left +their fairyland behind and came at last to the sadder lands where humans +lived. There Wonderwings showed them where hunger and sorrow and death +trampled the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">10</a></span> city streets, and the band of fairies flew lower and lower +to look.</p> + +<p>"The children tumble and fight in the dirty lanes, and cry for bread," +cried Poppypink. "The little ones, I cannot bear to hear them sob."</p> + +<p>"Perhaps you can help them," said Wonderwings.</p> + +<p>"I am only a little fairy. What can I do?" asked Poppypink. "I have no +bread to give them."</p> + +<p>She flew a little lower, to gaze at them more nearly. "What can I do?" +she asked again.</p> + +<p>No answer came. She looked around, and found herself alone. Wonderwings +and the older fairies had in a moment gone from sight.</p> + +<p>Below, a crippled child sat among rags in a dark corner of a dreary +room, and tears ran down her cheeks. "The sunshine, the pretty yellow +sunshine!" she wailed. "If only I could run and play in the pretty +sunshine!"</p> + +<p>"Here is something I can do," thought Poppypink. She gathered armfuls of +the golden sunbeams, and flying with them<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">12</a></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">11</a></span> through the glass as only a +fairy can fly, herself unseen, she heaped them over the twisted hands +and pale thin face of the child, and left her playing with them and +smiling happily.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 315px; padding-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 1em"> +<a name="illus-003" id="illus-003"></a> +<img src="images/img012.jpg" alt="Poppypink laughed with joy. I am so glad, so very glad!" title="" width = "315" height = "500" /><br /> +<span class="caption">Poppypink laughed with joy. "I am so glad, so very glad!" she said. "I had forgotten all about my wings."</span> +</div> + +<p>Lower she flew to help the little ones who cried about the gutters. She +led the starving and shelterless to comfort, the toddlers to safety; she +brought a flower to the hopeless, ease to sick ones racked with pain; at +night she flew with glittering dreams from room to room, so that even +sad-eyed feeble babies laughed for pleasure in their sleep. Day after +day, night after night she toiled, for weeks and months and years. There +was so much to do! The time passed like a moment. So busy was she that +she had forgotten all about her wings.</p> + +<p>One day there came a flash of colour in the air beside her, and +Wonderwings and all the older fairies stood around her. "Dear +Poppypink," cried one, "how your wings have grown! And how beautiful +they are! They are so tall that they reach above your head and almost to +the ground, and they glow with so many colours that it seems as if a +million jewels had been flung upon them and had<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">13</a></span> stuck, growing into a +million flashing stars that make a million little rainbows with every +sway and movement of your body."</p> + +<p>Poppypink laughed with joy. "I am so glad, so very glad!" she said. "I +had forgotten all about my wings."</p> + +<p>"Yet they have grown with use," said Wonderwings; "and for every deed of +kindness done a star has sprung, to shine in beauty there for evermore."</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 200px; padding-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 1em"> +<a name="illus-004" id="illus-004"></a> +<img src="images/img014.jpg" alt="" title="" width = "200" height = "189" /><br /> +</div> +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 310px; padding-top: 3em; padding-bottom: 3em"> +<a name="illus-04" id="illus-04"></a> +<img src="images/img016.jpg" alt="The Queen-mother looked over the garden wall" title="" width = "310" height = "500" /><br /> +<span class="caption">The Queen-mother looked over the garden wall. There an +old woman hobbled, muttering to herself."</span> +</div> + + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17">17</a></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16">16</a></span></p> + +<h2><a name="The_Magic_Mirror" id="The_Magic_Mirror"></a>The Magic Mirror</h2> + +<p>There was once a wise old king in a far-off land who said to himself, "I +have a daughter as well as a son; why should she not have a kingdom too? +I will see to it at once."</p> + +<p>He called the chief map-maker to him, and said: "Make a map of my +kingdom and divide it by a line so evenly that each part shall be +exactly half. There must not be one hair's breadth more on the east of +the line than on the west."</p> + +<p>The chief map-maker worked hard, and soon had the map ready, and it was +divided so evenly that there was not a hair's breadth more on the east +of the line than on the west. Then the king made a law that when he died +the Prince should rule over all the country on one side of the line, and +the Princess should rule over all the country on the other side. The +Prince's land he called Eastroyal, and the Princess's land he called +Westroyal, and from that day to this there have always been kings over +Eastroyal and queens over Westroyal.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18">18</a></span></p> + +<p>But it was soon noticed that in Eastroyal the people became discontented +and quarrelsome and poor, and were always finding fault with the +government; whereas in the west country over the border they were so +happy and kindly that they praised each queen from the beginning of her +reign to the end. Nobody knew why there should be so great a difference, +but a great difference there was. Things grew worse and worse in +Eastroyal, until at last the people rose and turned the reigning king +off his throne and set his little son in his place. "Perhaps we shall be +better satisfied now!" they said.</p> + +<p>The new king's mother walked alone, deep in thought; and she was very +troubled. "How can I teach my little son to please his people better +than his father did?" she wondered. "It would break my heart if he too +angered them and lost his crown, yet already he is showing a haughty +temper in his treatment of his lords, and I know not what to do."</p> + +<p>"I know! I know!" said a voice.</p> + +<p>The Queen-mother was much startled; though she had not spoken aloud, the +words seemed an answer to her thought. She looked<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19">19</a></span> over the low wall of +the garden into the road. There an old woman hobbled, leaning on a +stick, and muttering to herself. She was poor and ragged, and bent with +age. "I know, I know!" she said again.</p> + +<p>"What do you know?" asked the Queen-mother gently.</p> + +<p>The old woman looked up at her. "Go to Westroyal," she said; and she +hobbled away.</p> + +<p>"Ah, a witch!" thought the Queen-mother; "and she is right. The Queens +of the West have undoubtedly some secret means of making their people +love them. I will find out what it is."</p> + +<p>She prepared for a visit to Westroyal, and arrived a few days later at +the palace of the reigning queen. Here she was welcomed and feasted and +treated right lovingly, but though she kept her eyes and her ears as +wide open as it was possible for eyes and ears to be, she could not +discover the secret. She grew sad with disappointment.</p> + +<div class="figleft" style="width: 190px; padding-top: 0em; padding-bottom: 0em"> +<a name="illus-005" id="illus-005"></a> +<img src="images/img022.jpg" alt="She led the way to her own lovely sleeping-chamber." title="" width = "190" height = "286" /><br /> +<span class="caption">"She led the way to her own lovely sleeping-chamber."</span> +</div> + +<p>The young queen saw that she was sorrowful. "You are not happy here. +What is the matter?" she asked. "What can I do to make you glad?"<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20">20</a></span></p> + +<p>The Queen-mother held out her hands imploringly. "Only give me your +secret," she begged. "Tell me how you gain the love of your people and +keep it through all the years. Tell me so that I may teach my young son +how to hold his throne?"</p> + +<p>"Is that all?" exclaimed the Queen. "Come, I will show you."</p> + +<p>She led the way to her own lovely sleeping-chamber, hung with rose silk +and panelled with polished silver and amethyst, and she pointed to a +great mirror set strongly into the wall. "Look within!" she said.</p> + +<p>Wonderingly, the Queen-mother obeyed. On the surface of the mirror the +faces and forms of herself and the young queen were<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21">21</a></span> reflected; but +after a few moments, as she gazed, these faded away, and in their places +came a picture of a mine, with blackened toilers filling tracks with +coal. That, too, faded, and a golden cornfield showed upon the polished +glass; under the hot summer sun the busy reapers moved, wiping the sweat +from their brows when they stopped a moment to rest. A third picture was +of weavers making cloth. A cottage home came next, and a lordly mansion +of the rich, and a homeless child seeking shelter under a city bridge. +So scene followed scene, beautiful, or sad, or sordid, sometimes wild +and violent, and sometimes gay and peaceful, showing in the main a +people happy and content.</p> + +<p>"What is it?" asked the amazed Queen-mother at last. "How come these +pictures here?"</p> + +<p>"They are the life of my state reflected on this magic mirror for my +help," replied the Queen. "Long ago, when the first queen came to rule +the new kingdom of Westroyal, the fairies brought this mirror and set it +in the wall as here you see it. Faithfully ever since it has reflected +the daily happenings through-out the land, the people's toil and +pleasures,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22">22</a></span> their dangers and their comforts and rewards. So each queen +has known her country. Your son, looking in his mirror, sees but +himself; I see the sufferings of my people and know what things they +need, and so plainly are these pictures set before me that I cannot rest +till I have used my power to give relief."</p> + +<p>"Oh!" cried the Queen-mother, "now I see why you are loved. How can I +get such a mirror for my son?"</p> + +<p>"That I know not," replied the Queen.</p> + +<p>Then the Queen-mother returned sad at heart to the kingdom of her son, +pondering on what she had seen.</p> + +<p>Once again she walked in her garden alone. "How shall I get such a +mirror?" she wondered. "What should I do?"</p> + +<p>As once before, a voice replied "I know! I know!"</p> + +<p>The Queen-mother looked over the garden wall. Hobbling along the road +was the old woman who had bade her go to Westroyal. "You who helped me +before, help me again!" cried the Queen-mother. "I have obeyed you. How +now shall I get a magic mirror for my son?"<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23">23</a></span></p> + +<p>The old woman looked up at her. "Go to the Deeps," she said, and she +hobbled off.</p> + +<p>Now this was a dreadful command to the Queen-mother, for the Deeps was a +horrible black pool in the roughest and most dangerous part of the +country. It was said to be formed of the country's tears and to be also +bottomless, and to be haunted by beings of strange shape. There were +stories of their mysterious power and evil ways. Yet go she must, if +going meant the gaining of a magic mirror for her son. And she must go +alone, for only so could any seeker find the pathway to the pool, so it +was said.</p> + +<p>"I will go at once, before my courage fails," she said, and she left her +sheltered garden and set off across the land.</p> + +<p>She had many weary miles to travel, past villages and towns and fields, +and she was footsore and faint when at last she reached the winding +track that led between the darkening hills. Yet on she went, following +the murmur of a tiny stream that dropped through thick-set bushes into a +shadowed valley. On she went still, and now the darkness came, and she +had lost her way. She stumbled over fallen logs, pushed with bleeding +hands and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24">24</a></span> torn clothes through bramble wildernesses, and found at last +her way again to the narrow track beside the little stream that murmured +in the dark.</p> + +<p>On she went, and down. The stream suddenly widened into a round +blackness open to the sky, but walled in by jagged rocks. It was the +pool. Utterly spent through weariness and fear, she sank down among the +rocks to rest, and waited there for what might come to her.</p> + +<p>Strange rustlings sounded round the rocks, strange forms loomed close +beside her, strange voices asked her: "What are you? Why come you to our +haunts?" Though her heart was sick with dread she answered boldly in a +firm clear voice. "Give me a magic mirror for my son, that he may learn +to rule."</p> + +<p>There was a flash, and the pool and all the rocks were lit by a light +brighter and softer than that of moon or stars. All round her stood the +beings who had loomed so strangely in the darkness. They were fairies, +exquisite in shape and fineness, robed in flowing gossamer of many +colours. They smiled at her, and touched her with their gentle hands, +and immediately she was well. "Your love has<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_26" id="Page_26">26</a></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25">25</a></span> brought you nobly through +much fear and hurt," they said. "You shall have your due reward. Look +into the Deeps."</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 324px; padding-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 1em"> +<a name="illus-006" id="illus-006"></a> +<img src="images/img027.jpg" alt="She rose into the air" title="" width = "324" height = "500" /><br /> +<span class="caption">She rose into the air a shining queen of fairies, holding +in her hands a tiny gleaming mirror.</span> +</div> + + +<p>One took her hand and led her to the edge, and the Queen-mother, +fearless and smiling now, looked down into the fathomless water of the +pool. As she gazed, ripples came upon its surface. They broke away into +shining cascades of diamonds and pearls, and between them appeared the +face and shoulders of the old woman of the road. "I have your magic +mirror," she cried. "It is formed of the lowest teardrops of the Deeps."</p> + +<p>She sprang out and trod the water to the shore, and as she went her rags +fell from her and she rose into the air a shining queen of fairies, more +beautiful than any other there, holding in her hand a tiny gleaming +mirror. "Come," she said, "let us set it in its place."</p> + +<p>She touched the Queen-mother's hand, and in a flash they were all at the +palace, within the young king's sleeping chamber of turquoise and gold. +There as he lay asleep the fairies set the mirror in its place with +magic words, and as it touched the wall it lengthened out and widened +till it stood as large as that of the young queen across the border +line.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27">27</a></span> Over the polished glass began to float the pictures of the +country's life. "How can I show my gratitude?" the Queen-mother asked; +but the fairies were gone.</p> + +<p>Next morning when the little king awoke he ran to see the fine new +mirror in his room. He gazed and gazed upon the strange entrancing +pictures that came on it, and every day he spent long hours at the +mirror. And as he learned to recognise the hardships and the sufferings +of his people his heart grew hot to give relief, and he was no more +haughty, but used his power to ease their woes. So in Eastroyal as in +Westroyal there was content, and the people loved their king and praised +him through all his days until the end. And all the kings who followed +after him ruled wisely and were loved.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 200px; padding-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 1em"> +<a name="illus-06" id="illus-06"></a> +<img src="images/img029.jpg" alt="" title="" width = "200" height = "118" /><br /> +</div> +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 316px; padding-top: 3em; padding-bottom: 3em"> +<a name="illus-6" id="illus-6"></a> +<img src="images/img032.jpg" alt="Look closely at my flowers" title="" width = "316" height = "500" /><br /> +<span class="caption">"Look cosely at my flowers," she said, "and tell me +which you think most beautiful."</span> +</div> + + + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_31" id="Page_31">31</a></span></p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="Fairy_Tenderheart" id="Fairy_Tenderheart"></a>Fairy Tenderheart.</h2> + +<p>Little Fairy Tenderheart was weeping. She sat on a ledge that overlooked +the world, and her tears fell fast. In twos and threes her sisters flew +from Fairyland to put their arms about her, but none could comfort her. +"Come, dance and sing with us and forget your grief," they said. She +shook her head. "The terrible fighting!" she said. "See where far below +men rage, killing each other. Rivers run red with blood, and the sorrow +of weeping women rises through the air to where I sit. How can I dance +and sing?"</p> + + +<p>"It is the world at war," said an older fairy sadly. "I too have wept in +earlier days when men have fought. But our tears are wasted, little +sister. Come away."</p> + +<p>Fairy Tenderheart looked eagerly at her. "You who have watched the world +so many years," she said, "tell me why such dreadful deeds are done down +there."</p> + +<p>The older fairy bent her eyes on the blackened plains of earth. "I +cannot tell you that,"<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_33" id="Page_33">33</a></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_32" id="Page_32">32</a></span> she slowly said. "We watch and pity, but we +cannot know what works in the hearts of men that they should gather in +their millions to destroy their brothers and themselves. No other +creature turns on its own kind and kills so terribly as man."</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 319px; padding-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 1em"> +<a name="illus-007" id="illus-007"></a> +<img src="images/img035.jpg" alt="In twos and threes her sisters flew from Fairyland to put" title="" width = "319" height = "500" /><br /> +<span class="caption">In twos and threes her sisters flew from Fairyland to put their arms about her, but none could comfort her.</span> +</div> + +<p>"What can we do? It must be stopped. What can we do?"</p> + +<p>"We can do nothing, little sister. See where the women of the world +stretch out their hands, imploring men to live in peace. They beg the +lives of fathers, husbands, sons; they point to ruined homes and +desolated lands. 'War wrecks our lives!' they cry. Yet even for those +they love men will not give up battle. What, then, can fairies do? Tears +are useless. Come away."</p> + +<p>"I must stay here. I must think of something I can do," said Fairy +Tenderheart; and she would not go.</p> + +<p>Her tears had stopped. She searched with anxious eyes across the world +to find some means of helping men to better things, but no way could she +find. And still the fighters shot and stabbed, and the dying and the +dead lay piled upon the fields.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_34" id="Page_34">34</a></span></p> + +<p>Another fairy flew to her. "Come away, little sister!" she said. "I +cannot bear to see you sorrowing. Come, or you will forget the merry +ways of Fairyland and grow like the Oldest Fairy of All, who spends her +life brooding over this dreary earth."</p> + +<p>Fairy Tenderheart sprang up. "Where is she? Tell me where to find her. +Why did I not know of her before? I will go to her that we may be +companions in our sorrow. Perhaps together we may find a way to help."</p> + +<p>"Ah, do not go. Listen! She is so old that she has watched the world +since the beginning of wars, yet, as you see, she has found no way of +stopping them. How then can you?"</p> + +<p>"I must go."</p> + +<p>"She left our joyful Fairyland for a Magic Garden, and whoever enters +that Garden can never come back to us. There she dwells for ever alone, +at work or in thought, or preparing for her mysterious journeys to the +earth. Do not go, or you too will be cut off from our life of dance and +song, never to return."</p> + +<p>"I will go. Tell me the way."<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_35" id="Page_35">35</a></span></p> + +<p>The fairy flew off. "I will not tell you," she said. "You shall not go."</p> + +<p>"I will go," said Fairy Tenderheart again. With steadfast steps she +searched through Fairyland until she found a narrow track that led +between the winding mountains and far out across wide, shimmering +plains. This track she followed till she came upon the Magic Garden.</p> + +<p>The Oldest Fairy of All sat thinking among her flowers, and her eyes +were filled with peace. She looked at Fairy Tenderheart standing at the +gate. "Who enters here can never return to Fairyland," she said, and her +voice was sweeter than the songs of birds.</p> + +<p>Fairy Tenderheart pushed open the gate and stepped within the Garden. +"Who enters here finds joy," said the Oldest Fairy of All, and a crown +of happiness sat on her hair.</p> + +<p>"You come to work?" she asked.</p> + +<p>"I come to learn what I may do to help the suffering earth," said Fairy +Tenderheart. "Its cries of agony have beaten on my heart until there was +no rest for me in Fairyland. Is there no way to make war cease? I come +to you for wisdom."<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_36" id="Page_36">36</a></span></p> + +<p>The Oldest Fairy of All rose up and smiled, and her face was brighter +than the moon and stars. "Look closely at my flowers," she said, "and +tell me which you think most beautiful."</p> + +<p>The flowers bloomed on every side, in every lovely hue—crimson and gold +and orange, blue and purple and pink and softest lavender. All were +scented, and all were beautiful; but there was one plant that pleased +the little fairy more than any other. It grew no taller than the rest, +made no great show of colour, yet through its stems and leaves there +shone a radiance as if a light hid in them. Its flowers were clear as +crystal—one could see quite through them—but the sunlight falling on +them was broken into glowing colours, so that every blossom was a little +bunch of flashing rainbows. And where the flowers had closed and grown +to fruit they hung golden as the sun and fragrant with a scent that +stole upon the wind and made the heart heat high with happiness.</p> + +<p>"This is the most beautiful," said Fairy Tenderheart.</p> + +<p>"You have chosen well," said the Oldest Fairy of All. "You are fitted to +help me in<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_37" id="Page_37">37</a></span> my work. That is the Plant of Knowledge; its crystal +blossoms are called the Flowers of Understanding, and its fruit is Love. +By it alone can war be made to cease."</p> + +<p>She pointed far below. "I have planted it upon the earth in many spots," +she said. "Here and there it has flourished and spread, and its fruit +has sweetened all the air. But, alas!" her eyes grew sad, "too often it +has been trampled under foot and killed, and war has broken out afresh. +If only men would care for it and let it grow the world would soon be +wrapped in peace."</p> + +<div class="figleft" style="width: 185px; padding-top: 0em; padding-bottom: 0em"> +<a name="illus-008" id="illus-008"></a> +<img src="images/img041.jpg" alt="In the children's gardens ... they planted the seeds." title="" width = "185" height = "285" /><br /> +<span class="caption">"In the children's gardens ... they planted the seeds."</span> +</div> + +<p>"Can we not plant more and more until it spreads across the world in +spite of all neglect?" asked Fairy Tenderheart.</p> + +<p>The Oldest Fairy shook her head. "I have done my best," she said; "but +while men tramp it down it cannot spread across the world. Even when it +has grown well it cannot do the good it ought to do: a nation which has +eaten of its Fruit of Love and has learned to scorn the littleness of +war is yet forced by that same Love to fight, that it may rescue a weak +and helpless country from the greedy clutches of those who have refused +to let my<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_38" id="Page_38">38</a></span> dear plant bloom. In the end it shall spread, no doubt, and +my work shall be complete; but the time is long, the time is long."</p> + +<p>She mused, and Fairy Tenderheart gazed thoughtfully upon the earth. +Presently she raised her eyes, and they were bright with hope.</p> + +<p>"See where a group of children gathers round your precious plant!" she +said. "How eagerly they stretch their hands towards it, and how they +look into its flashing flowers. They will never tread it in the mud, for +they have seen its splendour. Let me take seeds to all the children's +gardens in the world. The Children! They will welcome your Plant of +Knowledge with its Flowers of Understand<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_39" id="Page_39">39</a></span>ing, and when they have tasted +its Fruit of Love they will grow up scorning war, and the world will +live in peace."</p> + +<p>The Oldest Fairy laughed with joy. "Oh, little sister, you have come to +help indeed!" she said. "You are right. The Children! It is to them we +must take our plant. Come, let us gather seeds and start at once."</p> + +<p>They gathered the golden seeds and carried them swiftly down. In the +children's gardens across the world they planted them, and everywhere +the children ran to gaze at the wonder of the springing plants, and to +watch the flowers unclose. And when through later days they ate and ate +again of the fragrant golden fruit, Love filled their veins and they +became a new race, scorning the littleness of war. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Wonderwings and other Fairy Stories + +Author: Edith Howes + +Illustrator: Alicea Polson + +Release Date: January 15, 2007 [EBook #20366] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WONDERWINGS *** + + + + +Produced by Marilynda Fraser-Cunliffe, Janet Blenkinship +and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at +http://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + + + +Wonderwings and other Fairy Stories + +by + +EDITH HOWES + +Author of "The Sun's Babies," "Fairy Rings," "Stewart Island," "Where +the Bell Birds Chime," "Marlborough Sounds," etc. + + +Illustrated by Alicea Polson + + +Whitcombe & Tombs Limited Auckland, Christchurch, Dunedin and +Wellington, N.Z. Melbourne and London. + + + * * * * * + + + CONTENTS + + + Page + Wonderwings 7 + + The Magic Mirror 17 + + Fairy Tenderheart 31 + + + + +[Illustration: "Come then," said Wonderwings. She took the little +fairy's hand and up they rose into the clear air.] + + + + +Wonderwings + + +Poppypink sat up in bed and yawned. "Why is everybody getting up so +early?" she asked. "Is it a holiday?" + +The older fairies were dressing themselves and brushing their long fine +hair. "Wonderwings is coming to see us," they said. "Jump up, little +Poppypink." + +"Who is Wonderwings?" she asked. + +"You will see when you are dressed. Hurry, or you will miss her." + +[Illustration: "The older fairies were dressing themselves and combing +their long fine hair."] + +"Oh dear! I am so sleepy," said Poppypink, and she yawned again. "I +don't care about Wonderwings." She snuggled down into the bedclothes +again, and went to sleep. + +Presently she was awakened by the sound of the sweetest singing she had +ever heard, and a flash of brilliant colour went past her window pane of +crystal set in pearl. + +"That must be Wonderwings," she said. "Oh, I must see her. I hope I am +not too late." + +She sprang from bed and dressed so hurriedly that I am afraid her hair +did not receive its due amount of brushing. Then she ran out into the +garden. + +The older fairies stood all in a group, saying loudly "I will go," and +"I will go." And before them, scarcely touching the ground with the tip +of her foot, stood poised a glorious fairy, taller than any other there. +She was altogether beautiful; and her wings--as soon as Poppypink saw +them she knew why the visitor had been called Wonderwings. For they +reached high above her head and almost to the ground, and they glowed +with so many colours that it seemed as if a million jewels had been Hung +upon them and had stuck, growing into a million flashing stars that +made a million little rainbows with every sway and movement of her body. + +"How lovely! Oh, how lovely!" cried Poppypink. She crept nearer to the +beautiful fairy and sat among the daisies at her feet. "See," she cried. +"My wings are small and colourless. Tell me how I may grow wings like +yours." Just as little girls adore beautiful hair, so do little fairies +adore beautiful wings. + +Wonderwings smiled down at her. "Such wings as mine are only to be won +in sadder lands than these," she said. "If you would have them you must +leave your fairyland and come where humans live, and where hunger and +sorrow and death trample the city streets." + +"I will come!" cried Poppypink. "I will come!" + +"Come then," said Wonderwings. She took the little fairy's hand, and up +they all rose into the clear air, flying far and far away till they left +their fairyland behind and came at last to the sadder lands where humans +lived. There Wonderwings showed them where hunger and sorrow and death +trampled the city streets, and the band of fairies flew lower and lower +to look. + +"The children tumble and fight in the dirty lanes, and cry for bread," +cried Poppypink. "The little ones, I cannot bear to hear them sob." + +"Perhaps you can help them," said Wonderwings. + +"I am only a little fairy. What can I do?" asked Poppypink. "I have no +bread to give them." + +She flew a little lower, to gaze at them more nearly. "What can I do?" +she asked again. + +No answer came. She looked around, and found herself alone. Wonderwings +and the older fairies had in a moment gone from sight. + +Below, a crippled child sat among rags in a dark corner of a dreary +room, and tears ran down her cheeks. "The sunshine, the pretty yellow +sunshine!" she wailed. "If only I could run and play in the pretty +sunshine!" + +"Here is something I can do," thought Poppypink. She gathered armfuls of +the golden sunbeams, and flying with them through the glass as only a +fairy can fly, herself unseen, she heaped them over the twisted hands +and pale thin face of the child, and left her playing with them and +smiling happily. + +[Illustration: Poppypink laughed with joy. "I am so glad, so very glad!" +she said. "I had forgotten all about my wings."] + +Lower she flew to help the little ones who cried about the gutters. She +led the starving and shelterless to comfort, the toddlers to safety; she +brought a flower to the hopeless, ease to sick ones racked with pain; at +night she flew with glittering dreams from room to room, so that even +sad-eyed feeble babies laughed for pleasure in their sleep. Day after +day, night after night she toiled, for weeks and months and years. There +was so much to do! The time passed like a moment. So busy was she that +she had forgotten all about her wings. + +One day there came a flash of colour in the air beside her, and +Wonderwings and all the older fairies stood around her. "Dear +Poppypink," cried one, "how your wings have grown! And how beautiful +they are! They are so tall that they reach above your head and almost to +the ground, and they glow with so many colours that it seems as if a +million jewels had been flung upon them and had stuck, growing into a +million flashing stars that make a million little rainbows with every +sway and movement of your body." + +Poppypink laughed with joy. "I am so glad, so very glad!" she said. "I +had forgotten all about my wings." + +"Yet they have grown with use," said Wonderwings; "and for every deed of +kindness done a star has sprung, to shine in beauty there for evermore." + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration: The Queen-mother looked over the garden wall. There an +old woman hobbled, muttering to herself.] + + + + +The Magic Mirror + + +There was once a wise old king in a far-off land who said to himself, "I +have a daughter as well as a son; why should she not have a kingdom too? +I will see to it at once." + +He called the chief map-maker to him, and said: "Make a map of my +kingdom and divide it by a line so evenly that each part shall be +exactly half. There must not be one hair's breadth more on the east of +the line than on the west." + +The chief map-maker worked hard, and soon had the map ready, and it was +divided so evenly that there was not a hair's breadth more on the east +of the line than on the west. Then the king made a law that when he died +the Prince should rule over all the country on one side of the line, and +the Princess should rule over all the country on the other side. The +Prince's land he called Eastroyal, and the Princess's land he called +Westroyal, and from that day to this there have always been kings over +Eastroyal and queens over Westroyal. + +But it was soon noticed that in Eastroyal the people became discontented +and quarrelsome and poor, and were always finding fault with the +government; whereas in the west country over the border they were so +happy and kindly that they praised each queen from the beginning of her +reign to the end. Nobody knew why there should be so great a difference, +but a great difference there was. Things grew worse and worse in +Eastroyal, until at last the people rose and turned the reigning king +off his throne and set his little son in his place. "Perhaps we shall be +better satisfied now!" they said. + +The new king's mother walked alone, deep in thought; and she was very +troubled. "How can I teach my little son to please his people better +than his father did?" she wondered. "It would break my heart if he too +angered them and lost his crown, yet already he is showing a haughty +temper in his treatment of his lords, and I know not what to do." + +"I know! I know!" said a voice. + +The Queen-mother was much startled; though she had not spoken aloud, the +words seemed an answer to her thought. She looked over the low wall of +the garden into the road. There an old woman hobbled, leaning on a +stick, and muttering to herself. She was poor and ragged, and bent with +age. "I know, I know!" she said again. + +"What do you know?" asked the Queen-mother gently. + +The old woman looked up at her. "Go to Westroyal," she said; and she +hobbled away. + +"Ah, a witch!" thought the Queen-mother; "and she is right. The Queens +of the West have undoubtedly some secret means of making their people +love them. I will find out what it is." + +She prepared for a visit to Westroyal, and arrived a few days later at +the palace of the reigning queen. Here she was welcomed and feasted and +treated right lovingly, but though she kept her eyes and her ears as +wide open as it was possible for eyes and ears to be, she could not +discover the secret. She grew sad with disappointment. + +The young queen saw that she was sorrowful. "You are not happy here. +What is the matter?" she asked. "What can I do to make you glad?" + +The Queen-mother held out her hands imploringly. "Only give me your +secret," she begged. "Tell me how you gain the love of your people and +keep it through all the years. Tell me so that I may teach my young son +how to hold his throne?" + +"Is that all?" exclaimed the Queen. "Come, I will show you." + +[Illustration: "She led the way to her own lovely sleeping-chamber."] + +She led the way to her own lovely sleeping-chamber, hung with rose silk +and panelled with polished silver and amethyst, and she pointed to a +great mirror set strongly into the wall. "Look within!" she said. + +Wonderingly, the Queen-mother obeyed. On the surface of the mirror the +faces and forms of herself and the young queen were reflected; but +after a few moments, as she gazed, these faded away, and in their places +came a picture of a mine, with blackened toilers filling tracks with +coal. That, too, faded, and a golden cornfield showed upon the polished +glass; under the hot summer sun the busy reapers moved, wiping the sweat +from their brows when they stopped a moment to rest. A third picture was +of weavers making cloth. A cottage home came next, and a lordly mansion +of the rich, and a homeless child seeking shelter under a city bridge. +So scene followed scene, beautiful, or sad, or sordid, sometimes wild +and violent, and sometimes gay and peaceful, showing in the main a +people happy and content. + +"What is it?" asked the amazed Queen-mother at last. "How come these +pictures here?" + +"They are the life of my state reflected on this magic mirror for my +help," replied the Queen. "Long ago, when the first queen came to rule +the new kingdom of Westroyal, the fairies brought this mirror and set it +in the wall as here you see it. Faithfully ever since it has reflected +the daily happenings through-out the land, the people's toil and +pleasures, their dangers and their comforts and rewards. So each queen +has known her country. Your son, looking in his mirror, sees but +himself; I see the sufferings of my people and know what things they +need, and so plainly are these pictures set before me that I cannot rest +till I have used my power to give relief." + +"Oh!" cried the Queen-mother, "now I see why you are loved. How can I +get such a mirror for my son?" + +"That I know not," replied the Queen. + +Then the Queen-mother returned sad at heart to the kingdom of her son, +pondering on what she had seen. + +Once again she walked in her garden alone. "How shall I get such a +mirror?" she wondered. "What should I do?" + +As once before, a voice replied "I know! I know!" + +The Queen-mother looked over the garden wall. Hobbling along the road +was the old woman who had bade her go to Westroyal. "You who helped me +before, help me again!" cried the Queen-mother. "I have obeyed you. How +now shall I get a magic mirror for my son?" + +The old woman looked up at her. "Go to the Deeps," she said, and she +hobbled off. + +Now this was a dreadful command to the Queen-mother, for the Deeps was a +horrible black pool in the roughest and most dangerous part of the +country. It was said to be formed of the country's tears and to be also +bottomless, and to be haunted by beings of strange shape. There were +stories of their mysterious power and evil ways. Yet go she must, if +going meant the gaining of a magic mirror for her son. And she must go +alone, for only so could any seeker find the pathway to the pool, so it +was said. + +"I will go at once, before my courage fails," she said, and she left her +sheltered garden and set off across the land. + +She had many weary miles to travel, past villages and towns and fields, +and she was footsore and faint when at last she reached the winding +track that led between the darkening hills. Yet on she went, following +the murmur of a tiny stream that dropped through thick-set bushes into a +shadowed valley. On she went still, and now the darkness came, and she +had lost her way. She stumbled over fallen logs, pushed with bleeding +hands and torn clothes through bramble wildernesses, and found at last +her way again to the narrow track beside the little stream that murmured +in the dark. + +On she went, and down. The stream suddenly widened into a round +blackness open to the sky, but walled in by jagged rocks. It was the +pool. Utterly spent through weariness and fear, she sank down among the +rocks to rest, and waited there for what might come to her. + +Strange rustlings sounded round the rocks, strange forms loomed close +beside her, strange voices asked her: "What are you? Why come you to our +haunts?" Though her heart was sick with dread she answered boldly in a +firm clear voice. "Give me a magic mirror for my son, that he may learn +to rule." + +There was a flash, and the pool and all the rocks were lit by a light +brighter and softer than that of moon or stars. All round her stood the +beings who had loomed so strangely in the darkness. They were fairies, +exquisite in shape and fineness, robed in flowing gossamer of many +colours. They smiled at her, and touched her with their gentle hands, +and immediately she was well. "Your love has brought you nobly through +much fear and hurt," they said. "You shall have your due reward. Look +into the Deeps." + +[Illustration: She rose into the air a shining queen of fairies, holding +in her hands a tiny gleaming mirror.] + +One took her hand and led her to the edge, and the Queen-mother, +fearless and smiling now, looked down into the fathomless water of the +pool. As she gazed, ripples came upon its surface. They broke away into +shining cascades of diamonds and pearls, and between them appeared the +face and shoulders of the old woman of the road. "I have your magic +mirror," she cried. "It is formed of the lowest teardrops of the Deeps." + +She sprang out and trod the water to the shore, and as she went her rags +fell from her and she rose into the air a shining queen of fairies, more +beautiful than any other there, holding in her hand a tiny gleaming +mirror. "Come," she said, "let us set it in its place." + +She touched the Queen-mother's hand, and in a flash they were all at the +palace, within the young king's sleeping chamber of turquoise and gold. +There as he lay asleep the fairies set the mirror in its place with +magic words, and as it touched the wall it lengthened out and widened +till it stood as large as that of the young queen across the border +line. Over the polished glass began to float the pictures of the +country's life. "How can I show my gratitude?" the Queen-mother asked; +but the fairies were gone. + +Next morning when the little king awoke he ran to see the fine new +mirror in his room. He gazed and gazed upon the strange entrancing +pictures that came on it, and every day he spent long hours at the +mirror. And as he learned to recognise the hardships and the sufferings +of his people his heart grew hot to give relief, and he was no more +haughty, but used his power to ease their woes. So in Eastroyal as in +Westroyal there was content, and the people loved their king and praised +him through all his days until the end. And all the kings who followed +after him ruled wisely and were loved. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration: "Look closely at my flowers," she said, "and tell me +which you think most beautiful."] + + + + +Fairy Tenderheart. + + +Little Fairy Tenderheart was weeping. She sat on a ledge that overlooked +the world, and her tears fell fast. In twos and threes her sisters flew +from Fairyland to put their arms about her, but none could comfort her. +"Come, dance and sing with us and forget your grief," they said. She +shook her head. "The terrible fighting!" she said. "See where far below +men rage, killing each other. Rivers run red with blood, and the sorrow +of weeping women rises through the air to where I sit. How can I dance +and sing?" + +"It is the world at war," said an older fairy sadly. "I too have wept in +earlier days when men have fought. But our tears are wasted, little +sister. Come away." + +Fairy Tenderheart looked eagerly at her. "You who have watched the world +so many years," she said, "tell me why such dreadful deeds are done down +there." + +The older fairy bent her eyes on the blackened plains of earth. "I +cannot tell you that," she slowly said. "We watch and pity, but we +cannot know what works in the hearts of men that they should gather in +their millions to destroy their brothers and themselves. No other +creature turns on its own kind and kills so terribly as man." + +[Illustration: In twos and threes her sisters flew from Fairyland to put +their arms about her, but none could comfort her.] + +"What can we do? It must be stopped. What can we do?" + +"We can do nothing, little sister. See where the women of the world +stretch out their hands, imploring men to live in peace. They beg the +lives of fathers, husbands, sons; they point to ruined homes and +desolated lands. 'War wrecks our lives!' they cry. Yet even for those +they love men will not give up battle. What, then, can fairies do? Tears +are useless. Come away." + +"I must stay here. I must think of something I can do," said Fairy +Tenderheart; and she would not go. + +Her tears had stopped. She searched with anxious eyes across the world +to find some means of helping men to better things, but no way could she +find. And still the fighters shot and stabbed, and the dying and the +dead lay piled upon the fields. + +Another fairy flew to her. "Come away, little sister!" she said. "I +cannot bear to see you sorrowing. Come, or you will forget the merry +ways of Fairyland and grow like the Oldest Fairy of All, who spends her +life brooding over this dreary earth." + +Fairy Tenderheart sprang up. "Where is she? Tell me where to find her. +Why did I not know of her before? I will go to her that we may be +companions in our sorrow. Perhaps together we may find a way to help." + +"Ah, do not go. Listen! She is so old that she has watched the world +since the beginning of wars, yet, as you see, she has found no way of +stopping them. How then can you?" + +"I must go." + +"She left our joyful Fairyland for a Magic Garden, and whoever enters +that Garden can never come back to us. There she dwells for ever alone, +at work or in thought, or preparing for her mysterious journeys to the +earth. Do not go, or you too will be cut off from our life of dance and +song, never to return." + +"I will go. Tell me the way." + +The fairy flew off. "I will not tell you," she said. "You shall not go." + +"I will go," said Fairy Tenderheart again. With steadfast steps she +searched through Fairyland until she found a narrow track that led +between the winding mountains and far out across wide, shimmering +plains. This track she followed till she came upon the Magic Garden. + +The Oldest Fairy of All sat thinking among her flowers, and her eyes +were filled with peace. She looked at Fairy Tenderheart standing at the +gate. "Who enters here can never return to Fairyland," she said, and her +voice was sweeter than the songs of birds. + +Fairy Tenderheart pushed open the gate and stepped within the Garden. +"Who enters here finds joy," said the Oldest Fairy of All, and a crown +of happiness sat on her hair. + +"You come to work?" she asked. + +"I come to learn what I may do to help the suffering earth," said Fairy +Tenderheart. "Its cries of agony have beaten on my heart until there was +no rest for me in Fairyland. Is there no way to make war cease? I come +to you for wisdom." + +The Oldest Fairy of All rose up and smiled, and her face was brighter +than the moon and stars. "Look closely at my flowers," she said, "and +tell me which you think most beautiful." + +The flowers bloomed on every side, in every lovely hue--crimson and gold +and orange, blue and purple and pink and softest lavender. All were +scented, and all were beautiful; but there was one plant that pleased +the little fairy more than any other. It grew no taller than the rest, +made no great show of colour, yet through its stems and leaves there +shone a radiance as if a light hid in them. Its flowers were clear as +crystal--one could see quite through them--but the sunlight falling on +them was broken into glowing colours, so that every blossom was a little +bunch of flashing rainbows. And where the flowers had closed and grown +to fruit they hung golden as the sun and fragrant with a scent that +stole upon the wind and made the heart heat high with happiness. + +"This is the most beautiful," said Fairy Tenderheart. + +"You have chosen well," said the Oldest Fairy of All. "You are fitted to +help me in my work. That is the Plant of Knowledge; its crystal +blossoms are called the Flowers of Understanding, and its fruit is Love. +By it alone can war be made to cease." + +She pointed far below. "I have planted it upon the earth in many spots," +she said. "Here and there it has flourished and spread, and its fruit +has sweetened all the air. But, alas!" her eyes grew sad, "too often it +has been trampled under foot and killed, and war has broken out afresh. +If only men would care for it and let it grow the world would soon be +wrapped in peace." + +"Can we not plant more and more until it spreads across the world in +spite of all neglect?" asked Fairy Tenderheart. + +The Oldest Fairy shook her head. "I have done my best," she said; "but +while men tramp it down it cannot spread across the world. Even when it +has grown well it cannot do the good it ought to do: a nation which has +eaten of its Fruit of Love and has learned to scorn the littleness of +war is yet forced by that same Love to fight, that it may rescue a weak +and helpless country from the greedy clutches of those who have refused +to let my dear plant bloom. In the end it shall spread, no doubt, and +my work shall be complete; but the time is long, the time is long." + +She mused, and Fairy Tenderheart gazed thoughtfully upon the earth. +Presently she raised her eyes, and they were bright with hope. + +[Illustration: "In the children's gardens ... they planted the seeds."] + +"See where a group of children gathers round your precious plant!" she +said. "How eagerly they stretch their hands towards it, and how they +look into its flashing flowers. They will never tread it in the mud, for +they have seen its splendour. Let me take seeds to all the children's +gardens in the world. The Children! They will welcome your Plant of +Knowledge with its Flowers of Understanding, and when they have tasted +its Fruit of Love they will grow up scorning war, and the world will +live in peace." + +The Oldest Fairy laughed with joy. "Oh, little sister, you have come to +help indeed!" she said. "You are right. The Children! It is to them we +must take our plant. Come, let us gather seeds and start at once." + +They gathered the golden seeds and carried them swiftly down. In the +children's gardens across the world they planted them, and everywhere +the children ran to gaze at the wonder of the springing plants, and to +watch the flowers unclose. And when through later days they ate and ate +again of the fragrant golden fruit, Love filled their veins and they +became a new race, scorning the littleness of war. And the world was +wrapped in peace. + +[Illustration] + + + * * * * * + + + The Willie Winkie + Zoo Books + + + Six entrancing Booklets for children. + + Written by Mrs. A. R. 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