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Title: The Strange Little Girl
A Story for Children

Author: V. M.

Commentator: Katherine Tingley

Illustrator: N. Roth

Release Date: December 1, 2007 [EBook #23671]

Language: English

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The Strange Little Girl

A Story for Children
By V. M.

Illustrations by N. Roth

_The Aryan Theosophical Press
Point Loma, California_

COPYRIGHT 1911, BY KATHERINE TINGLEY

[Illustration]

THE ARYAN THEOSOPHICAL PRESS
Point Loma, California

[Illustration: IN THE GARDEN OF DELIGHT]

The Strange Little Girl

I

Once upon a time there was a beautiful palace where the king's children
lived as happily as they alone can live. They never wanted anything and
they never knew that there could be others who were not as happy as
they. Sometimes, it is true, they would hear a story which would make
them almost think that perhaps there was a world beyond, which they did
not know, outside the palace of the king and its gardens, but something
would seem to say that after all it was only a fairy story, and they
would forget that it meant anything that might really be true.

One of the little princesses seemed to think more of these stories of a
world beyond the palace garden than the others, and she would sometimes
find herself gazing at the sun, and wondering if the great world lay
beyond the purple forests where the golden-edged clouds shone like dark
mountains in the distance. And the name of this princess was Eline.

More and more as she thought of these things