Identifier: crimsonfairybook00lang (find matches)
Title: The crimson fairy book
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912 Ford, H. J. (Henry Justice), 1860-1941, ill
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Publisher: London New York : Longmans, Green and Co.
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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SHt LIVED HAPPILV IN HLf\ NEST uTANDlislG /^TTHE EOGE LITTLE WILDBOSE 99 carefully for the moment when the eaglets began to trytheir wings and to fly away from the nest. Of course, ifthe eagle himself was there to protect them even the lind-worm, big and strong as he was, knew that he could donothing; but when he was absent, any little eagletswho ventured too near the ground would be sure todisappear down the monsters throat. Their brothers,who had been left behind as too young and weak to seethe world, knew nothing of all this, but supposed theirturn would soon come to see the world also. And in afew days their eyes, too, opened and their wings flappedimpatiently, and they longed to fly away above thewaving tree-tops to mountain and the bright sun beyond.But that very midnight the lindworm, who was hungryand could not wait for his supper, came out of the brookwith a rushing noise, and made straight for the tree.Two eyes of flame came creeping nearer, nearer, and twoliery tongues were

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