The Village
      of Youth

And Other Fairy Tales

BY

BESSIE HATTON

Author of "Enid Lyle," etc.

With Numerous Illustrations

BY

W. H. MARGETSON

London, 1895

HUTCHINSON & CO

34 PATERNOSTER ROW
Printed by Hazell, Watson, & Viney, Ld., London and Aylesbury.

CONTENTS.

  PAGE
I.The Village of Youth1
II.A Child of the Winds31
III.The Flower that reached the Sun-lands72
IV.The Garden of Innocence96
V.A Christmas Rose124
VI.The Windflower144

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The Village of Youth. Yet Ah! that Spring should vanish with the Rose! That Youth's sweet-scented manuscript should close!

I.

There was a young King who ought to have been the happiest monarch inthe world. He was blessed with everything a mortal could desire. Hispalace might have been designed by the Divine architect Himself, soperfect was it in all its parts; and it stood amidst gardens with itsdependent village at its gates, like a dream of feudal beauty in a storyof romance. Notwithstanding his good fortune, the King was oppressedwith what he conceived to be a great trouble. From the happy ruler of ahappy people he gradually became grave and anxious, as if an intensefear had taken possession of his soul; and[Pg 2] so it had. It was the fearof Age. He could no longer bear to meet old people, and eventually grewto hate the hoary heads and time-worn faces of his venerable subjects.He therefore divided his kingdom into two parts. The elders lived in onehalf of the realm, under the government of his mother,

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