. The black aunt. Stories and legends for children . SV9 V?0^l. NUTCRACKER AND SUGARDOLLY. FIRST CHAPTER. HOW A FRUIT DEALER AND HIS WIFE STEAL A NUT AND ANEGG AND WHAT COMES OF IT. fruit dealer had gone through the country with hiswife. He had bought nuts, and the wife eggs and theywere carrying home their purchases in baskets on theirbacks. And now they were on the road to the city inorder to sell their nuts and eggs there the next day. Asit was hot weather they left the sunny high-road andstruck into a by-way that led through a little thicketwhere it was shadv and cool walking. Roth sighed
. The black aunt. Stories and legends for children . SV9 V?0^l. NUTCRACKER AND SUGARDOLLY. FIRST CHAPTER. HOW A FRUIT DEALER AND HIS WIFE STEAL A NUT AND ANEGG AND WHAT COMES OF IT. fruit dealer had gone through the country with hiswife. He had bought nuts, and the wife eggs and theywere carrying home their purchases in baskets on theirbacks. And now they were on the road to the city inorder to sell their nuts and eggs there the next day. Asit was hot weather they left the sunny high-road andstruck into a by-way that led through a little thicketwhere it was shadv and cool walking. Roth sighed underthe burden of their baskets and reckoned up how muchthey would make by them and what they would buywith the money. White they were talking it over theycame to the splendid garden of the Fairy was a silver fence around it, with a great goldenlattice gate and within there wore wonderful shining 99 flowers such as the two travellers had never seen before;and birds of many glittering colors sat on the boughs ofthe great trees and sangmost sw
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