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Title: How the Fairy Violet Lost and Won Her Wings

Author: Marianne L. B. Ker

Illustrator: J. A. Martin

Release Date: May 12, 2008 [EBook #25453]

Language: English

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[Illustration: _The Fairy Violet's introduction to the Fire-King._]

HOW THE FAIRY VIOLET
LOST AND WON
HER WINGS.

BY MARIANNE L. B. KER.

_Author of "Eva's Victory," "Sybil Grey," &c._

ILLUSTRATED BY J. A. MARTIN.

[Illustration]

LONDON:
GRIFFITH AND FARRAN, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH YARD.

1872.

HOW THE FAIRY VIOLET

LOST AND WON HER WINGS.

The Fairy Violet lived in the heart of a beautiful forest, where,
through the glad spring months, the sun shone softly, and the bright
flowers bloomed, and now and then the gentle rain fell in silver drops
that made every green thing on which they rested fresher and more
beautiful still. At the foot of a stately oak nestled a clump of
violets, and it was there the wee fairy made her home. She wore a robe
of deep violet, and her wings, which were of the most delicate gauze,
glistened like dew-drops in the sun. All day long she was busy at work
tending her flowers, bathing them in the fresh morning dew, painting
them anew with her delicate fairy brush, or loosening the clay when it
pressed too heavily upon their fragile roots; and at night she joined
the elves in their merry dance upon the greensward. She was not alone in
the great forest; near her were many of her sister fairies, all old
friends and playmates. There was the Fairy Primrose in a gown of pale
yellow, and Cowslip, who wore a robe of the same colour, but of a deeper
shade. There was the graceful Bluebell, and the wild Anemone, the
delicate Woodsorrel, and the Yellow Kingcup. The Fairy Blu