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The violet fairy book (1906)

Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912, Ford, H. J. (Henry Justice), 1860-1941, ill · London ; New York : Longmans, Green · leaf 162

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and stretched out his third head to see;but no sooner was the neck through the hole than thehead went rolling to join the rest. When six of his heads were gone the snake lashedhis tail with such fury that the gazelle and the oldwoman could not see each other for the dust he made.And the gazelle… … Then the sword fell rattling on the ground, for thegazelle had fainted. 140 THE STORY OF A GAZELLE The old woman shrieked with delight when she sawher enemy was dead, and ran to bring water to thegazelle, and fanued it, and put it where the wind couldblow on it, till it grew better and gave a…

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