This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888 Excerpt: ...hands, and then they kissed each other's lips and whispered words of love in each other's ears. But the Wish-Lady, noticing that her presence was superfluous, wrapped herself in her dress of feathers and flew away. The two young people remained in the meadow valley. Baldwin built a house, and in it they passed a happy life; and each year a little child was given them, sometimes a boy and sometimes a girl. In the neighboring villages nobody suspected that Baldwin had been an ass and Alheid a goose. for they were as sensible as other human beings. They did not make a great noise about the history of their transformation, as it would have prejudiced them in the eyes of the people. But when they were about to die they entrusted it as a secret to their eldest son, and it was he who named the house " The Golden Goose" and the spring " The Ass's Well," as they are still called at the present day. How the healing power of the waters was discovered, and how life gradually came to the remote forest valley, are very fully described in a book which the landlady sells to the guests who use the waters. The Wish-Lady has for a long time stayed away, probably because it is too noisy for her in the valley. But even at the present time it happens that almost every year some young pair is seen at the spring, who seem as well adapted to each other as the heroes of our story. Loyalty's Home. From Mrs. Parr's "Loyalty George." Holt.) Love seldom calls judgment to its aid, and a girl brought up as Loyalty had been had no guide but the promptings of a very unruly nature. By turns infuriated, mortified by Mrs. Coode's treatment, she resolved and succeeded in aggravating, defying, and shocking her. Others, too, were shocked by the reckless conduct of th...