The book of elves and fairies for story-telling and reading aloud and for the children's own reading (1918)
Olcott, Frances Jenkins · Boston New York, Houghton Mifflin company · leaf 150
ed to pocket some of thepretty things in the booths, and steal softly awaywith them. She thought how nice a bright pairof diamond buckles would look on her best shoes,and how fine her Sunday cap would be orna-mented with a Fairy brooch. So she raised her hand and laid it on somebuckles, when — oh!… … SHE SAW A WHOLE TROOP OF SPRIGGANS HOLDING ANELFIN FAIR PEEPING KATE 119 hundreds of the Little People leap on her back,and her neck, and her head. At the same momentothers tripped up her heels, and laid her flat onthe ground, and rolled her over and over. Then she caught sight of the Piskey…
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