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Title: Granny's Wonderful Chair

Author: Frances Browne

Illustrator: A. A. Dixon

Release Date: July 10, 2008 [EBook #26018]

Language: English

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_GRANNY'S
WONDERFUL
CHAIR_

_From the Story by
FRANCES BROWNE_

_BLACKIE & SON LTD._
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_Printed and bound in Great Britain_

_STORIES OLD AND NEW_

_A small chosen library is like a walled garden where a child may safely
play. In that charmed seclusion the love of books, like the love of
flowers, grows of itself. If the reading habit is to be acquired, the
child ought from the first to be given real books, which may be handled
with pleasure and kept with pride--books containing literature suited to
its own age._

_This volume belongs to a series of "Stories Old and New" which has been
prepared specially for children. The books have been carefully chosen so
as to include, along with many charming stories by the best children's
authors of to-day, a due proportion of those older tales which never
grow old._

_To secure simplicity and right gradation, the text has been prepared
to suit the different ages of readers. Care has been given to the
illustration, print, and binding of the series, for it is believed that
this is the best way to secure from the children that careful handling
of the volumes which is the mark of the true book-lover._

CONTENTS

I INTRODUCTORY 6
II THE CHRISTMAS CUCKOO 18
III LADY GREENSLEEVES 51
IV CHILDE CHARITY 76
V SOUR AND CIVIL 92
VI PRINCE WISEWIT'S RETURN 118

GRANNY'S WONDERFUL CHAIR

CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTORY

In an old time, long ago, when the fairies were in the world, there
lived a little girl so very fair and p