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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
"'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
The Editha Series
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 hishands to the flames"
"Coming home on top of it, driving the four gray horseshimself"
"While she was fitting on her shoes, she saw the Lark's friend"
"Then he reclined beside the chafing-dish and inhaled the heavyperfume"
"'I could not do so,' he replied, 'only that as I go on I keeplightening it'"
"Lived on the borders of one of the great American forests"
"The next moment a beautiful little creature stood upon hishand"
"'Oh, don't go,' cried Hulda. 'I am going up-stairs to fetch mywand'"
"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?"
An Ouphe, fair questioner,—though you may never have heard ofhim,—was a creature well known (by hearsay, at least) to yourgreat-great-grandmother. It was currently reported that every forest hadone within its precincts, who ruled over the woodmen, and exactedtribute from them in the shape of little blocks of wood ready hewn forthe fire of h