Wonder-Box Tales

Ingelow Jean 1820-1897

English

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Below is a summary of Wonder-Box Tales







The Editha Series

WONDER-BOX TALES

by

JEAN INGELOW

With Illustrations by Diantha W. Horne







H. M. Caldwell Co.
Publishers
New York & Boston

Copyright, 1902
By Dana Estes & Company
All rights reserved




[Illustration: "'TO BE SURE I CAN,' REPLIED THE LARK."]




CONTENTS


The Ouphe of the Wood

The Fairy Who Judged Her Neighbors

The Prince's Dream

The Water-lily

A Lost Wand




LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS


"'To be sure I can,' replied the Lark"

"So he sat down as close to the fire as he could, and spread out his
hands to the flames"

"Coming home on top of it, driving the four gray horses
himself"

"While she was fitting on her shoes, she saw the Lark's friend"

"Then he reclined beside the chafing-dish and inhaled the heavy
perfume"

"'I could not do so,' he replied, 'only that as I go on I keep
lightening it'"

"Lived on the borders of one of the great American forests"

"The next moment a beautiful little creature stood upon his
hand"

"'Oh, don't go,' cried Hulda. 'I am going up-stairs to fetch my
wand'"

"The pedlar had now sunk up to his waist"




WONDER-BOX TALES




THE OUPHE[1] OF THE WOOD


"An Ouphe!" perhaps you exclaim, "and pray what might that be?"

[Footnote 1: _Ouphe_, pronounced "oof," is an old-fashioned word for
goblin or elf.]

An Ouphe, fair questioner,--though you may never have heard of