Small Stories page 11
Stories including "The Fairies of Merlin’s Craig" and "Bertie and the Ghost".
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The Fairies of Merlin’s Craig
Fairies appear to a man digging peat on a Scottish moor. Soon he is dancing to strange music with them.
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Bertie and the Ghost
When Bertie was still a small prince, his annoying little brother bet him that he would not dare to sleep one Halloween night in the haunted North Tower. Bertie did – and he met a ghost with a strange sense of humour.
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Bertie and the Lion
The story of how Prince Bertie kept a lion as a pet when he was a small boy living in the palace, and what happened when the lion grew too big to keep.
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The Hare and the Tortoise
The hare from the famous tale by Aesop tells his version of the race with the tortoise – just in case you thought that he really was slower than his rival. The real winner is the cunning fox.
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The Golden Goose
An amusing tale about a boy whose parents called him “Dummy” – but he can’t have been that much of a dummy because he found a golden goose and made the grandest people of the town look like fools.
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Lazy Jack
Lazy Jack goes out to work, but he’s not used to earning a living, and he gets into all sorts of muddles. An amusing fireside tale from the North of England.
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The Nose That Ran Away
The strange story of a nose that ran away from its owner, a little girl called Isis. Soon the nose was making havoc all over her school. Only Katie the witch knew the full truth…
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The Jumblies
They went to sea in a Sieve, they did, In a Sieve they went to sea… And when the Sieve turned round and round, And every one cried, ‘You’ll all be drowned!’ They called aloud, ‘Our Sieve ain’t big, But we don’t care a button! we don’t care a fig! By Edward Lear.
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Bertie’s Year of the Rat
In the year of the Rat, Bertie gives sanctuary to a special visitor to the pond.
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The Chinese Years of the Animals
How the Chinese years came to be named after the animals. It was all decided by a swimming contest.
