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Title: All the Way to Fairyland
Fairy Stories
Author: Evelyn Sharp
Illustrator: Mrs. Percy Dearmer
Release Date: November 3, 2009 [EBook #30400]
Language: English
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[Illustration: Cover art]
All the Way to Fairyland
Fairy Stories
BY
EVELYN SHARP
AUTHOR OF "WYMPS"
WITH EIGHT COLOURED ILLUSTRATIONS
AND A COVER BY MRS. PERCY DEARMER
JOHN LANE
THE BODLEY HEAD
LONDON AND NEW YORK
1898
COPYRIGHT, 1897, BY
JOHN LANE.
FIRST EDITION
University Press:
JOHN WILSON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE, U.S.A.
_By the Same author:_
WYMPS: FAIRY TALES. With eight coloured illustrations by Mrs. Percy
Dearmer.
THE MAKING OF A SCHOOLGIRL.
AT THE RELTON ARMS.
THE MAKING OF A PRIG.
[Illustration: A PRINCESS FLOATING ABOUT ON A SOFT WHITE CLOUD]
THESE STORIES
ARE FOR
GEOFFREY AND CHRISTOPHER
TRISTAN AND ISEULT
MARGARET AND BOY
AND
EVERARD
AND ALL THE OTHER CHILDREN
WHO WOULD LIKE TO GO
ALL THE WAY TO FAIRYLAND
Contents
CHAPTER
I. THE COUNTRY CALLED NONAMIA
II. WHY THE WYMPS CRIED
III. THE STORY OF HONEY AND SUNNY
IV. THE LITTLE PRINCESS AND THE POET
V. THE WONDERFUL TOYMAKER
VI. THE PROFESSOR OF PRACTICAL JOKES
VII. THE DOLL THAT CAME STRAIGHT FROM FAIRYLAND
VIII. THOSE WYMPS AGAIN!
List of Illustrations
BY MRS. PERCY DEARMER
I. A PRINCESS FLOATING ABOUT ON A SOFT WHITE CLOUD . _Frontispiece_
II. THE WYMPS SAY THAT QUEER BEGAN IT
III. SUNNY WAS SO ASTONISHED THAT SHE STOPPED CRYING AT ONCE
IV. "COME WITH ME, POET," SAID THE LITTLE PRINCESS
V. THE ROCKING-HORSES RUSHED OVER THE GROUND
VI. HE CURLED HIMSELF UP IN THE SUN AND CLOSED HIS EYES
VII. THE LADY EMMELINA IS ALWAYS KEPT IN HER PROPER PLACE NOW
VIII. "WILL YOU COME AND PLAY WITH ME, LITTLE WISDOM?"
The Country Called Nonamia
Ever so long ago, in the wonderful coun
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