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THE LITTLE PRINCESS IN THE WOOD A Picture Book by SIBYLLE v.OLFERS Illtutrator of
"When
the Root Children
Wake Up"
With Text by
HELEN DEAN FISH
FREDERICK NEW YORK
A.
STOKES COMPANY MCMXXXI
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summer morning the little Rosemary woke up early, jumped
lo\ely
out of bed, put on her crown and popped her head out of the castle window.
There
she saw, through the branches of the Queen's best
rose-tree,
band
of
Dew
lightly
The
as
if
blown
Princess
Chil-
park as
sparkling through the castle
dren,
Dew
a merry
on the morning wind.
laughed
Children heard her.
ning over the grass
for
joy
They came
and called
come down and play with them.
Printed
in
Germany.
and
to
the
run-
her to
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Quick
a
as
and out
downstairs
slipped
Rosemary
Princess
bird,
the
fresh,
Children
—their
into
sunny summer morning.
When
the
Dew
Httle
six
names were Rainbow, GHsten and Diamond, Dewdrop, she
had
washed
not
Pearl
and
they hurried her
that
brushed
and
away
brook that flowed through the
meadow
Two
by.
hands
in
of
them washed
clear,
sparkling
sunny
hair;
slippers
another
and
a
fitted
third
her
face
water
and
One brushed
another dried her gently.
robe.
—heard
a clear
near
and
and
to
dressed, little
Sparkle
on her
tied
little
her
golden
on her crimson
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When dren
grew warm the Dew
the sun
away,
vanished
and
boys scampered up and cess
share
to
names
boys' Velvet,
the
were
led
roots
of
tree
made her
and
One
brought
a
her
sweet wild
the
little
in
seat toast
another moss-jelly, other
The MossMoss-cap,
Evergreen,
her to a a
table
the
on
spread on
castle
garden,
low
branch.
a
and
warm
another honey strawberries,
milk,
and an-
gathered
in
wood.
Green
Jacket
has
some
cakes
to
but he sees that the bold red squirrel spied to
Prin-
and Green Jacket.
Soft- step
They
begged the
breakfast.
their
Moss-
Httle
five
Chil-
ofifer
has
them from the treetop and come down
try
one.
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After
breakfast
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Master Crow fiew down
with specs on beak and book under wing.
He ga\e
the httle Princess a pencil,
with
slate
a
golden
and told her
rim,
on the grassy bank under a
sit
and a
tree.
to
Then
Master Crow perched on a stump and opened
book with a "Caw, caw, caw!" He taught
his
the
little
Princess
to
spell
such
words
as
SPRING and BIRDS and NESTS and EGGS. It
was the
nicest school she
Whisk,
the
had ever heard
of.
squirrel,
nearby tree and was glad to
go
to
school.
watched
HE
from
a
did not have
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Ifw When
school
wandered gentle
was
happily
out,
through
and walked beside her
played rel,
and
Httle
the
Princess
wood.
hares
about the his
for
hopped path.
Seven
a while.
and
nibbled
Whisk,
the
and
squir-
mate followed too and stopped
sometimes to eat a juicy blackberry. birds flew
A
came springing over the lawn
faun
frolicsome
the
and sang above them.
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Late
came
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the afternoon, the Httle Princess
in
mossy glade
to a
at the
edge
of the
wood where the silly little mushrooms live, who grow up in a single night red-caps, brown-caps and white-caps. They begged
—
her to stop and a
most obliging
the grass of
them a
little
castle
gate,
years
to
oak
tree
fair
told
beside
she
sat
them her
on
tales
father's
which had taken hundreds
of
grow and had seen many storms
and the coming and going and
story, so being
Princess,
among them and
great
the
tell
ladies.
of brave knights
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last
Star
little
darkness
fell
Children
came
lanterns
to
through
the
for she all
light
many
with
little
deep wood.
bright star
their
home
Princess
She was
sleepy,
had laughed and worked and played
day, and was glad to see the towers of
her father's castle the
the
and
friendly
safely
home.
Star
through the trees when Children
had
led
her
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The
little
castle gate stairs to
Princess
and
children
through
the
the great doors and up-
She was soon
her white bed.
asleep, like the
nature
in
slipped
little
she
fast
animals and birds and
had
played
with
all
day.
The night wind the trees, and one
over the to
show
castle in
rustled little
all
the sky.
softly
through
Star Child watched
night,
till
dawn began
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