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English Fairy Tales by Flora Annie Steel
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Headpiece--Lawkamercyme

A funny-looking old gentleman engaged her and took her home

White-faced simminy has got a spark of hot cockalorum on its
tail




[Illustration: Headpiece--St. George of Merrie England]




ST. GEORGE OF MERRIE ENGLAND


In the darksome depths of a thick forest lived Kalyb the fell
enchantress. Terrible were her deeds, and few there were who had the
hardihood to sound the brazen trumpet which hung over the iron gate that
barred the way to the Abode of Witchcraft. Terrible were the deeds of
Kalyb; but above all things she delighted in carrying off innocent
new-born babes, and putting them to death.

And this, doubtless, she meant to be the fate of the infant son of the
Earl of Coventry, who long long years ago was Lord High Steward of
England. Certain it is that the babe's father being absent, and his
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