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Title: The Story of the Three Goblins

Author: Mabel G. Taggart

Release Date: November 13, 2007 [EBook #23465]

Language: English

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THE STORY OF THE THREE GOBLINS

BY

MABEL G. TAGGART

LONDON: GRANT RICHARDS 1903

THE STORY OF THE THREE GOBLINS.

Once upon a time there were three little goblins.

Their names were Red-Cap, Blue-Cap and Yellow-Cap, and they lived in a
mountain.

The goblins had a great friend--a green frog whose name was Rowley.

Rowley came every year to see the little goblins, and told them stories
about the Big World where he lived.

The goblins had never seen the Big World, and often asked their father
to let them go with Rowley, but he always said, "Not yet, my sons."

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The name of the goblins' father was Old Black-Cap.

He was King of the Mountain.

At last, one day Old Black-Cap called the three goblins and said to
them: "I am going to send you into the Big World to look for something
which the fairies stole from me a long time ago. A Red Feather which
always belongs to the King of the Mountain. Go, my sons, and the one who
finds it shall be king of this mountain after me."

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Red-Cap, Blue-Cap and Yellow-Cap said good-bye to their father and
climbed out into the Big World through a rabbit hole. When they had gone
a little way they saw something lying on the ground. Something large and
white and round.

"What is that?" they all cried together.

Red-Cap, who was the eldest, got inside it to see what it was made of.

"Oh! oh!" cried Blue-Cap and Yellow-Cap. "It is moving! Stop! Stop!" But
the white thing rolled away down the mountain with poor little Red-Cap
inside it; faster and faster it went, and Blue-Ca