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At https://folklorefairytales.wordpress.com/page/40/ you will find the first of 40 pages, or 250+, FREE individual children’s stories, of folklore, fairytales, myths, legends, fables, poems and ditties from around the world with images and illustrations to keep children occupied during this trying time.
These are stories and tales from long ago. Follow the link to page 40 and work backwards. Here your children will find stories they have never even heard of!
Encourage your children to FEEL FREE to print these off and create their own folders of these tales. The owner of this site published these and gives his permission for you to download and print off the stories on this site for your personal use.
PLEASE SHARE with friends and family and schools in your area.
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THE OTHER SIDE OF THE SUN 8 illustrated fairy stories for children. The stories in this volume by Evelyn Sharp are original stories, not retellings of fairy stories from the mists of time like Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty etc.
They are:
The Weird Witch Of The Willow-Herb
The Magician’s Tea-Party
The Hundredth Princess
Somebody Else’s Prince
The Tears Of Princess Prunella
The Palace On The Floor
The Lady Daffodilia
The Kite That Went To The Moon
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Evelyn Jane Sharp (1869–1955) was a key figure in two major British women’s suffrage societies, the militant Women’s Social and Political Union and the United Suffragists and an established author. She helped found the United Suffragists and became editor of Votes for Women during the First World War. She was twice imprisoned and became a tax resister. An established author who had published in The Yellow Book, she was especially well known for her children’s fiction, namely, All the Way to Fairyland (1898) and The Other Side of the Sun (1900). REVIEW
Miss Sharp has wit, wisdom, and imagination for her initial equipment, but she possesses also what is rarer far—the accent and the point of view. For instance, she would never introduce a bicycle into this old-fashioned country. She knows perfectly well that if there should be any occasion for hurry—which is rarely the case in Fairyland—naturally you take a rocking-horse.—The Academy, Literature Review, London.
10% of the net sale will be donated to charities by the publisher.
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Just added to our growing archive of classic children’s illustrations:
31 Classic Fairy Tale Illustrations from WHITE ELEPHANT TALES OF INDIA plus 8 story header illustrations.
Download link: https://shoptly.com/i/wk6
Also Two sets of illustrations from Uncle Remus and Brer Rabbit –
42 Classic Fairy Tale Illustrations from TOLD BY UNCLE REMUS ILLUSTRATED BY A. B. FROST, J. M. CONDE AND FRANK UERBECK GROSSET & DUNLAP
Download Link: https://shoptly.com/i/wkd
61 Classic Fairy Tale Illustrations by an Unknown Artist from UNCLE REMIS AND BRER RABBIT
Download Link: https://shoptly.com/i/wkj
To view all 59 sets of images, click on https://shoptly.com/fairytaleimages – includes sets from Peter Rabbit & friends by Beatrix Potter
Herein are 25 famous stories from The Greek, German, English, Spanish Scandinavian, Danish, French, Russian, Bohemian, Italian and other sources. These stories are further brought to life by 24 full colour plates
The myths and legends gathered here have appealed and will continue to appeal to every age. Nowhere in the realm of fiction are there stories to compare with those which took form centuries ago when the human race was in its childhood—stories so intimately connected with the life and history and religion of the great peoples of antiquity that they have become an integral part of our own civilization. These are a heritage of wealth to every child that is born into the world. Myths and legends like:
Prometheus The Friend Of Man, The Labors Of Hercules, The Gorgon’s Head, The Golden Fleece, The Cyclops, The Sack Of Troy, Beowulf And Grendel, The Good King Arthur and many, many more.
This volume is sure to keep you and your young ones enchanted for hours, if not because of the content, then because of their quality.
Format: eBook – Mobi/Kindle, ePub, PDF
Over 1500 classic illustrations from children’s fairy tales and folklore in BnW and colour, including from the Tales of Peter Rabbit & Friends – https://shoptly.com/fairytaleimages
Almost a year ago I started a project to keep alive and bring to the world those old and forgotten children’s stories as individual stories. No longer will you have to buy a whole book of stories to have access to just one story.
To make it more interesting, I created a fictional persona to narrate the stories based on a tribal storyteller, in this case a Zulu tribal storyteller. His name is Baba Indaba, pronounced Baaba Indaaba, which means “Father of Stories” and he lived in KwaZulu-Natal during the Victorian era. A free downloadable description of Baba Indaba can be found on Google Play and Google Books.
As at today the first 260 stories have been loaded in PDF and ePUB formats. Each story sells for US$0.25 – or you can buy 4 for US$1.00
The UK price is £0.20 or 4 for £0.80. For all other countries, Google works out what the equivalent price in your country is.
At least 5 new stories will be added to this collection every week.
PLEASE LIKE and SHARE this with your FB friends especially those who are teachers or have children of their own.
Below you will find a list of all 260 stories to date listed by the region they originated in.
The URL/link to review the stories, and/or to buy, is https://goo.gl/J5TX98
Each story also includes LINKS TO DOWNLOAD 8 FREE BABA INDABA STORIES as well as a “WHERE IN THE WORLD – LOOK IT UP” educational section, where young readers are challenged to look up a place on a map somewhere in the world. The place, town or city is relevant to the story. Our HINT is: use Google maps.
AFRICA
Book 01 – The Stars and The Road of Stars
Book 02 – Why the Hare has a Split Nose
Book 06 – Anansi and the Lion
Book 07 – Two Anansi Stories
Book 10 – The Lost message
Book 111 A STORY ABOUT A MAIDEN AND A PUMPKIN
Book 122 The Story of OSIRIS
Book 16 – THE GIRL OF THE EARLY RACE WHO MADE STARS
Book 19 – THE STORY ABOUT A BEAUTIFUL MAIDEN
Book 220 WHY THE HONEY BADGER IS SO KEEN ON HONEY
Book 25 – Miss Salt Miss Pepper
Book 29 – Why the Whitecrow Never Speaks
Book 43 – Why A Bushman Throws Earth Into the Air
Book 46 – Two Bushmen Tales – HOW A SNAKE ANNOUNCES A DEATH IN THE FAMILY & THE RESURRECTION OF THE OSTRICH
Book 69 A LION’S STORY
Book 83 The Giant and the Cause of Thunder
AESOP’s FABLES – Rewritten for Children
Book 08 – The Tortoise and the Ducks
Book 117 TWO AESOPS FABLES – The Astrologer & The Fox and the Pheasants
Book 127 A Cat and Mouse in Partnership
Book 21 – How the Turtle Saved his Own Life
Book 26 – The Wolf and the Kid
Book 30 – The Old Lion and the Jackal
Book 37 – A Cocks Breakfast
Book 28 – THE EAGLE AND THE CROW
Book 61 – Horse and Turtle
Book 62 THE JACKAL AND THE HYENA
Book 78 Two Aesops Fables
Book 90 BELLING THE CAT
AUSTRALASIAN – Aboriginal, Maori, Polynesian
Book 221 The Story of Hine Moa
Book 52 – How the Fish got into Water
Book 82 The Story of Ahuula
NORTH AMERICAS – American Indian, Americana, Alaska & Hawaii
Book 114 The Giant Dog
Book 119 UNKTOMI AND THE ARROWHEADS
Book 18 – The Star Maiden
Book 182 BOKWEWA, THE HUMPBACK
Book 191 WUNZH – THE FATHER OF INDIAN CORN
Book 198 THE RETURN OF THE DEAD WIFE
Book 200 RIP VAN WINKLE
Book 201 THE WONDERFUL BASKET
Book 204 GROWING-UP-LIKE-ONE-WHO-HAS-A-GRANDMOTHER
Book 207 THE STORY OF DJUN
Book 208 BLACKSKIN
Book 212 LAND-OTTER THE INDIAN
Book 217 THE CHIEF’S DAUGHTER
Book 238 THE ADVENTURES OF FIRE-DRILL’S SON
Book 245 The Loot of Loma – American Indian
Book 31 – Two American Indian Stories – A Bashful Courtship & Why The Birch-Tree Wears Slashes In It’s Bark
Book 32 – A BET BETWEEN THE COOYOKO AND THE FOX
Book 42 – A Dinner and its Consequences
Book 60 A HOPI RAID ON A NAVAHO DANCE
Book 63 Journies to the Skeleton House
Book 64 A KATCINA RACE CONTEST BETWEEN THE WµLPI AND THE ORAÖBI
Book 67 A Legend of Manabozho
Book 70 A LITTLE BRAVE AND THE MEDICINE WOMAN
BRITISH – English, Welsh, Scots & Irish
Book 09 – The Three Sillies
Book 101 A Voyage to Lilliput
Book 102 Black Brown and Gray
Book 104 Lazy Jack
Book 109 Nansi Llwyd and the Dog of Darkness
Book 112 THE Milk White Doo and a poem
Book 118 Tom Tit Tot
Book 12 – The Tale of the Hoodie
Book 123 ‘HAME, HAME, HAME, WHERE I FAIN WAD BE’
Book 124 MORE FAITHFUL THAN FAVOURED
Book 130 A NIGHT IN THE KITCHEN (HCA)
Book 132 BEOWULF
Book 133 Two Medieval Stories
Book 134 CHILDE HORN
Book 135 GUY OF WARWICK
Book 136 PRESTER JOHN
Book 137 Cherry
Book 146 THE PHYNODDERREE – Isle of Man
Book 153 A STRANGE TIGER
Book 151 A Rats Tale
Book 155 A White Trout
Book 158 LITTLE THUMB
Book 159 THE MASTER CAT
Book 161 ADVENTURES OF GILLA NA CHRECK AN GOUR
Book 165 ALL CHANGE
Book 166 BINNORIE
Book 168 Birth of Fin MacCumhail
Book 170 BLACK STAIRS ON FIRE
Book 171 Two Ghostly Tales
Book 172 AN BRAON SUAN OR
Book 178 DAY-DREAMING
Book 179 EARL MARs DAUGHTER
Book 183 CAUTH MORRISY LOOKING FOR SERVICE
Book 199 YOUNG AMAZON SNELL
Book 202 AN OLD-WORLD GHOST
Book 203 THE GENTLEMAN HIGHWAYMAN
Book 205 BLIND JACK OF KNARESBOROUGH
Book 206 BLIND JACK – More Adventures
Book 213 THE DISINHERITING OF A SON
Book 247 MR. VINEGAR
Book 250 THE SHEPHERD OF LAUDERDALE
Book 257 – THE CHURCH THE DEVIL STOLE & THE PARSON AND THE CLERK – Two Co
Book 258 – Two Cornish Legends – The Weaver Of Dean Combe And The Demon Who Helped Drake
Book 259 – Two Cornish Legends – The Samson Of Tavistock And The Midnight Hunter Of The Moor
Book 260 – Two Cornish Legends – The Piskie’s Funeral and The Lost Land of Lyonesse
Book 33 – A Mouthful of Silence
Book 45 – Two Welsh Fables – The Fable Of Gwrgan Farfdrwch & The Story Of The Pig-Trough
Book 54 A Ghostly Rehearsal
Book 57 A Good Action
Book 65 A LEGEND OF KNOCKMANY
Book 66 The Legend of Lough Mask
Book 71 A LOST PARADISE
Book 75 A Pottle O’ Brains
Book 76 A Phantom Funeral
Book 77 A Puzzle
Book 87 TWO WELSH FABLES – A Strange Otter & Melangell’s Lambs
Book 91 Cap O Rushes
Book 92 The Legend of Beth Gellert
Book 93 DAME PRIDGETT AND THE FAIRIES
CENTRAL AMERICA – Caribbean, Mexican, Pre-Columbian, Atlantean
Book 138 PRINCESS BLUEGREEN OF THE SEVEN CITIES
Book 173 Bimini and the Fountain of Youth
Book 34 – The Maya Creation Story
Book 38 – The Creation Story of the Mixtecs
Book 48 – The Death Of Tupac King of the Inca
Book 51 – THE STORY OF NEZAHUALPILLI KING OF TEXCOCO
Book 56 The Lost Island
Book 72 The MYTH OF MANCO CCAPAC INCA
Book 73 The Rise and Fall of the Toltec Empire
Book 74 ZLATOVLASKA THE GOLDEN-HAIRED
Book 80 The Fugitive Prince
EUROPE – Eastern, Western & Scandinavia
Book 04 – The Watchmaker
Book 100 HANSEL AND GRETTEL
Book 105 MASTER AND PUPIL
Book 107 MOTHER HOLLE
book 115 A Very Naughty Boy
book 120 Vasilica The Brave
Book 121 ANDROCLES AND THE LION
Book 125 ‘TOM’ AN ADVENTURE IN THE LIFE OF A BEAR IN PARIS
Book 126 A (NOTHER) STORY OF A FROG
Book 139 Twopence Halfpenny – Gypsy
Book 143 THE JUDGMENT OF THE FLOWERS – Spain
Book 149 A PACK OF RAGAMUFFINS
Book 150 IN HONOUR OF A RAVEN
Book 152 FELICIA AND THE POT OF PINKS
Book 156 THE LITTLE GLASS SLIPPER or CINDERELLA
Book 157 THE SLEEPING BEAUTY IN THE WOODS
Book 160 BLUE BEARD
Book 162 BEASTS BESIEGED
Book 163 AINO’S FATE
Book 164 BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
Book 167 ALLERLEIRAUH or THE MANY-FURRED CREATURE
Book 169 ALPHEGE OR THE GREEN MONKEY
Book 174 BLOCKHEAD-HANS
Book 175 CANNETELLA (GFB)
Book 176 CHARCOAL NILS AND THE TROLL-WOMAN
Book 177 DAPPLEGRIM
Book 180 EMELYAN THE FOOL
Book 181 AN IMPOSSIBLE ENCHANTMENT (GFB)
Book 184 DOGS OVER THE WATER
Book 186 Aschenputtel
Book 187 BOYISLAV YOUNGEST OF TWELVE
Book 188 GAZELLE the TORTOISE
Book 189 HEART OF ICE
Book 190 ILMARINEN FORGES THE SAMPO
Book 192 VASSILISSA THE CUNNING AND THE TSAR OF THE SEA
Book 193 VIRGILIUS THE SORCERER (VFB)
Book 194 WAINAMOINEN AND YOUKAHAINEN
Book 195 YELENA THE WISE
Book 196 THE DROWNED BUCCANEER
Book 209 THE PETS OF AURORE DUPIN
Book 210 AURORE DUPIN AT PLAY
Book 211 HOW AURORE DUPIN LEARNs TO RIDE
Book 214 THE SIEGE OF RHODES
Book 216 BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
Book 218 THE BOYHOOD OF LEONARDO
Book 219 THE ADVENTURES OF A SPANISH NUN
Book 154 A THE STORY OF THREE WONDERFUL BEGGARS
Book 237 Pandoras Box
Book 24 – Salt – A Baba Yaga story
Book 243 AMYS AND AMYLE (Red Romance Book)
Book 246 CINDERELLA or the Little Glass Slipper
Book 251 DONKEY SKIN
Book 248 THree princesses of whiteland (Norway)
Book 249 Famine Among the Gnomes – Norse
Book 36 – A Clever Lass
Book 41 – The Wind Rider
Book 39 – The Wolves Skoll and Hati
Book 44 – A Dozen At A Blow
Book 55 A GIFT FROM FRIGGA
Book 53 A French Puck
Book 59 A Gullible World
Book 85 Baba Yaga and the Girl with a Kind Heart
Book 86 A Story About a Darning Needle
Book 88 A Tale of Tontawald
Book 89 THE CAT WHO BECAME HEAD-FORESTER
Book 95 Gertrudes Bird
Book 96 A VISITOR FROM PARADISE
Book 98 FIN MacCUMHAIL and the KNIGHT of the FULL AXE
Book 99 GENTLE DORA
FAIRY STORIES
Book 103 HOW ETHNE LEFT THE LAND OF THE FAIRIES
Book 108 Minnikin
Book 113 The Fairy Frog
Book 128 A FAIRY’S BLUNDER
Book 140 The Fairy Child
Book 141 The Fairy Cure
Book 142 The Fairy Nurse
Book 144 The Kite That Went to the Moon
Book 145 The Pen Fairy
Book 147 The Rubber Fairy
Book 148 Twelfth Night Fairy
Book 185 FAIRER-THAN-A-FAIRY
Book 232 Twelve Fairy Stories Bumper edition
Book 234 Tinyboy and Other Stories
Book 235 The Leaf Fairy and Other Stories
Book 236 The Rain Fairy and Other Stories
Book 252 THE ELF MAIDEN
Book 49 – A Fairy Borrowing
Book 50 – A Fairy Dog
Book 94 FAIRY TRANSPORTATION
FAR EAST – Burma, China, Japan
Book 106 – A TRADITIONAL PHYSICIAN CALLED JIVAKA
Book 11 – The Moon that Shone on the Porcelain Pagoda
Book 110 The Sparrow with the Slit Tongue
Book 116 OF THE MAIDEN SSUWARANDARI
Book 129 A Laung Khit
Book 13 – The Monkey and the Crocodile
Book 131 Aladdin and the Magic Lamp
Book 22 -The Elephant Girlie Face
Book 35 – TIKI-PU AND WIO-WANI
Book 47 – Two Burmese Tales – A DISRESPECTFUL DAUGHTER & THE THREE SISTERS
Book 58 – A Greedy King
Book 68 A Lesson for Kings
Book 79 A Rabbit Story
Book 81 A Son of Adam
Book 84 – Two Burmese Folktales – A SAD FATE & FRIENDS
INDIA – India, Bangladesh, Pakistan
Book 03 – The Evil Eye of Sani
Book 14 – CONKIAJGHARUNA
Book 23 – The Broken Pot
Book 233 Tiger Tom
Book 244 The Son of Seven Queens
MIDDLE EAST – Arabian Nights, Persian, Turkish, Jewish, Armenian
Book 05 – The Pixie of the Well
Book 15 – Ameen and the Ghool
Book 17 – The Story of Bostanai – Persian
Book 197 THE PERPLEXITY OF ZADIG – Babylon
Book 20 – ARA AND SEMIRAMIS – Armenian
Book 215 THE PRINCESS OF BABYLON
Book 222 THE THREE CALENDERS – Arabian Nights
Book 223 THE FISHERMAN AND THE GENIE – Arabian Nights
Book 224 THE STORY OF THE KING OF THE EBONY ISLES – Arabian Nights
Book 225 Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves – Arabian Nights
Book 226 THE STORY OF THE MAGIC HORSE – Arabian Nights
Book 227 THE STORY OF THE WICKED HALF-BROTHERS – Arabian Nights
Book 228 HOW THE CAMEL GOT HIS HUMP – Arabian
Book 229 THE CAT THAT WALKED BY HIMSELF – Arabian
Book 230 THE STORY OF THE MERCHANT AND THE JINNEE – Arabian
Book 231 THE STORY OF THE FISHERMAN – Arabian
Book 239 THE STORY OF THE THREE APPLES
Book 241 THE STORY OF NOOR-ED-DEEN AND ENEES-EL-JELEES
Book 242 THE SUMERIAN STORY OF THE GREAT FLOOD
Book 240 THE STORY OF THE HUMPBACK
Book 253 THE STORY OF THE PORTER AND THE LADIES OF BAGHDAD
Book 254 THE STORY OF THE FIRST ROYAL MENDICANT – Arabian Nights
Book 255 THE STORY OF THE SECOND ROYAL MENDICANT – Arabian Nights
Book 256 THE STORY OF THE THIRD ROYAL MENDICANT – Arabian Nights
Book 27 – The Soothsayer
Book 40 – An Armenian Story and an Armenian Poem
Book 97 Little Hyacinths Kiosk
A sample of 25 Baba Indaba Children’s Stories Covers
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Herein you will find 30 uniquely Brazilian tales from the land of the 2016 Olympics. It should be noted that there are not many volumes of Brazilian Folklore to be found. But within these two unique volumes – Brazilian Fairy Tales and Tales of Giants from Brazil, you will find 30 stories from that vast and amazing country compiled especially by Elsie Spicer Eells. As Spicer-Eells puts it, “Brazil is the land of giant fruits and giant flowers. Of course it is the land of giant stories too.”
Stories like HOW NIGHT CAME, HOW THE RABBIT LOST HIS TAIL, HOW THE TOAD GOT HIS BRUISES, WHY THE LAMB IS MEEK, THE PRINCESS OF THE SPRINGS, THE FOUNTAIN OF GIANT LAND, THE LITTLE SISTER OF THE GIANTS, THE GIANTS PUPIL and many, many more.
Residents of the Amazonian forests know that the animals of the forest and the birds which flit through the trees each have their own language. To them the beasts break silence and talk like humans. For them, the magic wonders of these tales stand forth as testament and living truth that the animals do speak to humans, if only we would take the time to stop and listen to what they have to say. These volumes are an interpretation of but a few of the stories they have told.
So, find a comfy chair, and when you get bored with yet another program on the Olympics, sit back with a hot toddy, and enjoy a change of scenery and a change of pace with these 30 unique and authentic Brazilian folk stories and fairy tales while the narrator drones away listening to the sound of their own voice.
Fairy Tales from Brazil – Cover
ONCE long ago there lived a king who had a stupid son. His father sent him to school for many years hoping that he might learn something there. His teachers all gave him up as hopelessly stupid, and with one accord they said, It is no use trying to teach this lad out of books. It is just a waste of our valuable time.
At length the king called together all the wisest men of his kingdom to consult with them as to the best way to make the prince wise and clever. They talked the matter over for a year and a day. It was the unanimous opinion of the wise men of the kingdom that the lad should be sent on a journey through many lands. In this way he might learn many of the things which his teachers had not been able to teach him out of books.
Accordingly the prince was equipped for his journey. He was given fine raiment, a splendid black horse upon which to ride, and a great bag full of money. Thus prepared, he started forth from the palace one bright morning with the blessing of the king, his father, and of all the wise men of the kingdom.
The prince journeyed through many lands. In one country he learned one thing, and in another country he learned another thing. There was no country or kingdom so small or poor that it did not have something to teach the prince. And the prince, though he had been so insufferably stupid at his books, learned the lessons of his journey with an open mind.
After long wanderings the prince arrived at a city where there was an auction going on. A singing bird was being offered for sale. What is the special advantage of this singing bird? asked the prince.
This bird, at the command of its owner, will sing a song which will put to sleep anyone who listens to it, was the reply.
The prince decided that the bird was worth purchasing. The next thing which was offered for sale was a beetle. What is the special advantage of this beetle? asked the prince.
This beetle will gnaw its way through any wall in the world, was the reply.
The prince purchased the beetle. Then a butterfly was offered for sale. What is the special advantage of owning this butterfly? asked the prince.
This butterfly is strong enough to bear upon its wings any weight which is put upon them, was the answer.
The prince bought the butterfly. With his bird and beetle and butterfly he travelled on and on until he became lost in the jungle. The foliage was so dense that he could not see his way, so he climbed to the top of the tallest tree he saw. From its summit he spied in the distance what looked like a mountain; but, when he had journeyed near to it, he saw that it was really the wall which surrounds the land of the giants.
A great giant whose head reached to the clouds stood on the wall as guard. A song from the singing bird put this guard to sleep immediately. The beetle soon had gnawed an entrance through the wall. Through this opening the prince entered the land of the giants.
The very first person whom the prince saw in the land of the giants was a lovely captive princess. The opening which the beetle had made in the wall led directly to the dungeon in which she was confined.
The prince had learned many things on his journey, and among the lessons he had learned was this one: Always rescue a fair maiden in distress. He immediately asked what he could do to rescue the beautiful captive princess.
You can never succeed in rescuing me, I fear, replied the princess. At the door of this palace there is a giant on guard who never sleeps.
Never mind, replied the prince. Ill put him to sleep.
Just at that moment the giant himself strode into the dungeon. He had heard voices there. Sing, my little bird, sing, commanded the prince to his singing bird.
At the first burst of melody the giant went to sleep there in the dungeon, though he had never before taken a wink of sleep in all his life.
This beetle of mine has gnawed an entrance through the great wall which surrounds the land of the giants, said the prince to the captive princess. To escape well not have to climb the high wall.
What of the guard who stands on top of the wall with his head reaching up to the clouds? asked the princess. Will he not spy us?
My singing bird has put him to sleep, too, replied the prince. If we hurry out he will not yet be awake.
I have been confined here in this dungeon so long that I fear I have forgotten how to walk, said the princess.
Never mind, replied the prince. My butterfly will bear you upon his wings.
With the lovely princess borne safely upon the butterflys wings the prince swiftly escaped from the land of the giants. The giant on the wall yawned in his sleep as they looked up at him. He is good for another hours nap, remarked the prince.
The prince returned to his fathers kingdom as soon as he could find the way back. He took with him the lovely princess, and the singing bird, and the gnawing beetle, and the strong-winged butterfly.
His father and all the people of the kingdom received him with great joy. Never again will the prince of our kingdom be called stupid, said the wise men when they heard the account of his adventures. With his singing bird and his gnawing beetle and his strong-winged butterfly he has become the cleverest youth in the land.
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