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BY

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WITH TEXT BY HELEN DEAN FiSH

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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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One
Princess

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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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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

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

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.

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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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

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

did not have

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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

came springing over the lawn

faun

frolicsome

the

and sang above them.

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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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At

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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