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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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ghter nothing, and besides, she had rejected so manysuitors already that he was quite alarmed lest no manshould be good enough for her. Therefore, after a talkwith Samba, who charmed him by his good humour andpleasant ways, he gave his consent, and three dayslater the wedding feast was celebrated with the utmostsplendour. The princess was very proud of her tall handsomehusband, and for some time she was quite content thathe should pass the days with her under the palm trees,telling her the stories that she loved, or amusing herwith tales of the manners and customs of his country,which were so different to those of her own. But, by-and-by, this was not enough; she wanted other peopleto be proud of him too, and one day she said: I really almost wish that those Moorish thieves fromthe north would come on one of their robbing expeditions.I should love so to see you ride out at the head of ourmen, to chase them home again. Ah, how happy Ishould be when the city rang with your noble deeds !
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found sK-ulK<-n.g by his lOife, SAMBA THE COWARD 113 She looked lovingly at him as she spoke ; but, to hersurprise, his face grew dark, and he answered hastily : Never speak to me again of the Moors or of war. Itwas to escape from them that I fled from my own land,and at the first word of invasion I should leave you forever. How funny you are, cried she, breaking into alaugh. The idea of anyone as big as you being afraidof a Moor! But still, you mustnt say those things toanyone except me, or they might think you were inearnest. Not very long after this, when the people ofthe city were holding a great feast outside the walls ofthe town, a body of Moors, who had been in hiding fordays, drove off all the sheep and goats which were peace-fully feeding on the slopes of a hill. Directly the losswas discovered, which was not for some hours, the kinggave orders that the war drum should be beaten, andthe warriors assembled in the great square before thepalace, trembling with fury at the ins

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