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Fairies playing music with butterflies

Chapter VI.

The Story of a Fairyfoot.

“Once upon a time there stood far away in the west country a town called Stumpinghame. It contained seven windmills, a royal palace, a marketplace, and a prison, with every other convenience befitting the capital of a kingdom. A capital city was Stumpinghame, and its inhabitants thought it the only one in the world. It stood in the midst of a great plain, which for three leagues round its walls was covered with corn, flax, and orchards. Beyond that lay a great circle of pasture land, seven leagues in breadth, and it was bounded on all sides by a forest so thick and old that no man in Stumpinghame knew its extent; and the opinion

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