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The Brown Fairy Book
| Author: | Lang, Andrew
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| Language: | English | |
| Number of downloads: | 17 | |
| Number of readers who love this book: | 1 | |
| Source: | http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3282 | |
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A collection of strange but beautiful tales from different cultures. Includes "How Some Wild Animals Became Tame Ones," "The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate," "The Mermaid and the Boy," "The Sister of the Sun," and many more folk tales from Australia, Africa, and Persia. Newly designed and typeset for easy reading by Boomer Books.
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... 'Always; whatever you command I will do it,' said Pivi, politely. 'Then climb up that cocoa-nut tree, with your legs only, not using your hands,' said the woman. Now the natives can run up cocoa-nut trees like squirrels, some using only one hand; the girls can do that. But few can climb without using their hands at all. 'At the top of the tree you will find two cocoa-nuts. You must not throw them down, but carry them in your hands; and you must descend as you went up, using your legs only.' 'I shall try, at least,' said Pivi....