Swiss Fairy Tales

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CHAPTER		PAGE
I.	[How Swiss Fairy Tales Came to America]	1
II.	[The Swiss Home Near Valley Forge]	16
III.	[The Wonderful Alpine Horn]	28
IV.	[The Whimsical Avalanche]	39
V.	[The Mountain Giants]	48
VI.	[The Dwarf and His Confectionery]	56
VII.	[Two Good Natured Dragons]	66
VIII.	[The Frost Giants and the Sunbeam Fairies]	77
IX.	[The Fairy in the Cuckoo Clock]	91
X.	[The Castle of the Hawk]	101
XI.	[The Yodel Carillon of the Cows]	110
XII.	[The Tailor and the Giant]	118
XIII.	[The Dwarf’s Secret]	132
XIV.	[The Fairy of the Edelweiss]	144
XV.	[The Avalanche That Was Peace Maker]	157
XVI.	[The Fairies and Their Playground]	168
XVII.	[The Kangaroo Poa]	181
XVIII.	[The Swiss Fairies in Town Meeting]	191
XIX.	[The Palace Under the Waves]	201
XX.	[The Alpine Hunter and His Fairy Guardian]	209
XXI.	[The Fairies’ Palace Car]	221
XXII.	[The White Chamois]	235
XXIII.	[The Siren of the Rhine]	241
XXIV.	[The Ass That Saw the Angel]	250

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I

HOW SWISS FAIRY TALES CAME TO AMERICA

Let us pretend that we are sitting on a stool, a hassock, a rug, or the floor, around the chair of grandmother Hess, to which place all young folks are hereby invited. We shall go with her, in fancy, to the home of the Swiss family Harby, for that was her maiden name, at Barren Hill, in what the Swiss folks called “the Pennsylvanias.” For they loved the forests and they knew that the name meant the groves or woods of Penn. They kept always, in their minds, the idea of trees. It was there that some of these fairy and other tales were first told.

It was long ago, during the Revolutionary war, when Washington, and Lafayette, and Steuben, were comrades at Valley Forge. This [[2]]place was only a few miles away, and the great men rode often past the house and farm of John Harby, who was grandma’s father.