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Title: The Fairy School of Castle Frank

Author: Grant Balfour

Release Date: September 2, 2010 [EBook #33606]

Language: English

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[Illustration: Cover art]

[Frontispiece: ROBIN OF CASTLE FRANK.]

THE FAIRY SCHOOL OF
CASTLE FRANK.

BY

GRANT BALFOUR,

AUTHOR OF "THE MOTHER OF ST. NICHOLAS."

TORONTO:

THE POOLE PRINTING COMPANY, LIMITED,

PUBLISHERS.

Entered, according to Act of the Parliament of Canada, in the year one
thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine by A. BALFOUR GRANT, in the
office of the Minister of Agriculture.

Hon. G. W. Ross, LL.D., Premier of Ontario, says:--"I have read this
little story by Grant Balfour, which I can cheerfully recommend to the
children of Ontario. It is both interesting and instructive, and
contains a useful moral lesson."

CONTENTS

Chapter

I. Romantic Robin
II. Fairyland
III. The Strange School Class
IV. The Advice of Hug-grippy, the Affectionate
V. The Advice of the Subtle Snake
VI. The Modest Medallist
VII. The Fight in the Ravine
VIII. Robin's Book

The Snow-White Fox

The Song-Sparrow

List of Illustrations

Robin of Castle Frank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . _Frontispiece_

"How many walnuts are 2 and 4 and 6?"

Fascinated

Crafticus: "I have a cunning plan."

King Muffler: "It is no new thing," remarked the king, "for crafty
creatures to get the simple to begin a foolish quarrel."

THE FAIRY SCHOOL OF CASTLE FRANK.

CHAPTER I.

ROMANTIC ROBIN.

I've found at last the hiding place
Where the fairy people dwell,
And to win the secrets of their race
I hold the long-sought spell.
_Havergal._

One hundred years ago, in the great land of Canada, there lived a boy
whose name was Robin. His home was in the grand old woods, with
wapitis, wolves and bears. It was near the edge of a deep ravine that
opened out on the east by a slow win