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Title: Friendly Fairies

Author: Johnny Gruelle

Release Date: February 26, 2004 [EBook #11315]

Language: English

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FRIENDLY FAIRIES

Written & Illustrated by

JOHNNY GRUELLE

1919

To MY MOTHER

CONTENTS:

_Here are the Titles of the Stories in this Book:_

1 The Three Little Gnomes

2 The Happy Rattle

3 Recipe for a Happy Day

4 Grandfather Skeeterhawk

5 Crow Talk

6 The Fairy Ring

7 Mr. and Mrs. Thumbkins

8 The Old, Rough Stone and The Gnarled Tree

9 Sally Migrundy

10 How Johnny Cricket Saw Santa Claus

11 The Twin Sisters

12 Little Thumbkin's Good Deed

13 The Wishbone

14 Tim Tim Tamytam

15 A Change of Coats

[Illustration]

[Illustration]

THE THREE LITTLE GNOMES

A silvery thread of smoke curled up over the trunk of the old tree and
floated away through the forest, and tiny voices came from beneath the
trunk of the old tree.

Long, long ago, the tree had stood strong and upright and its top
branches reached far above any of the other trees in the forest, but the
tree had grown so old it began to shiver when the storms howled through
the branches. And as each storm came the old tree shook more and more,
until finally in one of the fiercest storms it tumbled to the earth with
a great crash.

There it lay for centuries, and vines and bushes grew about in a tangled
mass until it was almost hidden from view.

Now down beneath the trunk of the fallen tree lived three little gnomes,
and it was the smoke from their fire which curled up over the trunk of
the old tree and floated away through the forest.

They were preparing dinner and laughing and talking together when they
heard the sound of a horn.

"What can it be?" one asked.

"It sounds like the horn of a huntsman!" another cried.

As the sound came nearer, the three little gnomes stamped upon their
fire and put it out so that no one would discover their home. T