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  [Illustration: The Fairies
                 and the Christmas
                 Child]

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  [Illustration: _Fr._               "We rocked the cradle"
                                         (_Page 182_)]




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  The
  Fairies and
  the Christmas Child
  By Lilian Gask

  The Illustrations are by
  Willy Pogany

  T. Y. Crowell & Co
  New York

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Contents


  Chapter                                    Page
     I.  The Fairy Ring                         1

    II.  The Princess with the Sea-Green Hair  25

   III.  Rose-Marie and the Poupican           45

    IV.  The Bird at the Window                67

     V.  The White Stone of Happiness          89

    VI.  The Seven Fair Queens of Pirou       109

   VII.  In the Dwarf's Palace                133

  VIII.  The Silver Horn                      157

    IX.  The Little White Feather             175

     X.  The Wild Huntsman                    197

    XI.  The White Princess                   217

   XII.  The Favourite of the Fates           239

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List of Illustrations


  "We rocked the cradle"                    _Frontispiece_
                                                      Page
  "I fancied that I had seen those wee brown men"       11

  "The Fairy Ring was thronged with dancing Elves"      20

  "Here a Fairy Princess awaited him"                   33

  Rose-Marie and the Poupican                           54

  "They tossed him three times in the air"              63

  "She hid herself behind a curtain"                    83

  "What ails you, Madame Marguerite?"                   99

  "The Lord of Argouges threw himself on his knees"    114

  "They instantly changed into snow-white birds"       129

  "The Dwarf invited me to be seated"                  141

  "Elberich had jeered him finely"                     151

  "'She is yours, O Otnit!' cried the Dwarf"           154

  "In the old man's place sat a little Dwarf"          167

  "A little white feather danced above their heads"    189

  "'How now?' cried a reassuring voice"                196

  "He entreated the maiden to come down"               205

  "Went shyly down to meet him"                        212

  "Lowered herself from her window by means of