Norton, Charles Eliot, 1827-1908 · Boston : Hall and Locks · leaf 84
dthat his only child, when born, was to be given to thefairies. He bore it, however, as well as he could, forfear of adding to my mothers grief, and also believinghe should find some means of keeping me in a place ofsafety which the fairies would not be able to approach. As soon as I was born, he… … When the fairies discovered what had been done, theysent first to demand me; and on my fathers refusal,they let loose a monstrous dragon, which devoured men,women and children, and the . breath of whose nos-trils destroyedeverything itcame near, sothat all thetrees andplants beganto die. The…
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