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Tall-Tale Telling Tailor

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People say I tell tall tales and I do admit that I can sometimes exaggerate. I'm not adverse to stretching the truth if it makes a good tale, but what I am about to tell you is not a word of a lie! The other day, I left the workshop and went wandering through the...

Bald Suitor

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My mother thinks that I will get nowhere in the world because I'm idle and we are penniless, and, worst of all, I'm bald. Well, I never had much passion for anything until I saw the princess riding by the other day. Her face was veiled but from the moment I caught a...

Wicked Fairy Ragotte

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I have drawn the prince down into a pit of fire. Ha! He used to turn his face from me. He couldn't meet my ugliness. Well, now, he must look at me. Look hard! I appear to him in the smoke, on the arm of a beautiful slave. Ha, I see the admiration in his eyes when he...

Glass Hill

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I'm a high, high, glass mountain, slippery as ice, standing close to the king's palace. On my peak sits a princess with three golden apples on her lap. The man who can ride up and take those apples will win her hand in marriage, and half the kingdom too. The Princess...

Arbitrating Fairy Queen

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When the good fairy Placida turned herself into an old woman to greet the queen on the roadside, the queen scolded the old woman because she didn't curtsey deeply enough! I was compelled to intervene. I rode in on my chariot, escorted by my fairy companions on their...

Enchanted Sea Tower

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I stand tall and proud in the midst of the sea. I am built of shells of all shapes and colors. My lowest floor is like a great bathroom where the water sloshes in and out. The second floor holds the apartments of a princess who has been imprisoned here by the fairies....

Gardener’s Son

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The prince and I are good friends, and we often compete to see whose arrow can fly the highest. When one of our arrows pinned the feather of a golden bird, I claimed the arrow as my own. The prince said it was his, and when we couldn't settle the dispute, we took it...

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