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Title: The olive fairy book
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912 Ford, H. J. (Henry Justice), 1860-1941, ill
Subjects: Fairy tales Folklore
Publisher: London New York : Longmans, Green
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
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ver do, cried he ; but the lady cuthim short. Then we shall both rue it for ever, she said gravely ; for I can only be the wife of him who will burn myskin. And while he still stood hesitating, the curtains ofthe tent fell back on her, and the tapers fizzled out. Bitterly repenting his slowness, he wandered towardsthe forest where a fire was burning, hardly knowing whathe did ; but on his way he almost fell over the skin,which was lying across his path. Ah, fool that I was ! This must be the skin shewished me to burn, said he. And seizing it in both handshe flung it into the fire, where it exploded with a terrificnoise. At first he rushed off to some distance, notknowing what might next befall, but after a while foundthat his steps had led him back to the place of the fire.The skin had gone and left no traces, but among thecinders he beheld something shining, which proved to bethe magic collar. Ah ! then his sister, for whom he hadso greatly longed, must be near at last! And before he
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THE COMB AND THE COLLAR 97 could turn his head or pick up the collar, her arms wereround his neck, and everything else was forgotten. You shall tell your story first, she said, when atlength they could speak. And so he did ; but his headwas so full of the Lady of the Shell that he forgot to sayanything about the fox. And it was well that he hadforgotten, for when the princess had poured forth herown adventures, she ended up by speaking of all sheowed to the little white fox. You cannot even guess the care he took of me in thelittle palace. But though nothing could exceed his kind-ness, I saw by his eyes that there was something hewanted me to give him, but I could not tell what. Alas !the day came that I learnt it to my cost. I had hiddenthe collar in a thick bush, lest the fox should catch sightof it and be scared away as the other animals had been.But, one day, when we were in the garden, the sunhappened to shine straight on it, and he sprang towardsit with every sign of delight. He

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