Produced by David Edwards, eagkw and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) [Illustration: Cover] [Illustration: The Fairies and the Christmas Child] [Illustration] [Illustration: _Fr._ "We rocked the cradle" (_Page 182_)] [Illustration: Title Page] The Fairies and the Christmas Child By Lilian Gask The Illustrations are by Willy Pogány T. Y. Crowell & Co New York [Illustration] [Illustration] Contents Chapter Page I. The Fairy Ring 1 II. The Princess with the Sea-Green Hair 25 III. Rose-Marie and the Poupican 45 IV. The Bird at the Window 67 V. The White Stone of Happiness 89 VI. The Seven Fair Queens of Pirou 109 VII. In the Dwarf's Palace 133 VIII. The Silver Horn 157 IX. The Little White Feather 175 X. The Wild Huntsman 197 XI. The White Princess 217 XII. The Favourite of the Fates 239 [Illustration] [Illustration] List of Illustrations "We rocked the cradle" _Frontispiece_ Page "I fancied that I had seen those wee brown men" 11 "The Fairy Ring was thronged with dancing Elves" 20 "Here a Fairy Princess awaited him" 33 Rose-Marie and the Poupican 54 "They tossed him three times in the air" 63 "She hid herself behind a curtain" 83 "What ails you, Madame Marguerite?" 99 "The Lord of Argouges threw himself on his knees" 114 "They instantly changed into snow-white birds" 129 "The Dwarf invited me to be seated" 141 "Elberich had jeered him finely" 151 "'She is yours, O Otnit!' cried the Dwarf" 154 "In the old man's place sat a little Dwarf" 167 "A little white feather danced above their heads" 189 "'How now?' cried a reassuring voice" 196 "He entreated the maiden to come down" 205 "Went shyly down to meet him" 212 "Lowered herself from her window by means of a rope of pearls" 224 "He tickled the monster's nose" 233 "Pepita rushed into his arms" 253 [Illustration: _To "The Doctor" and Mrs. Macnaughton-Jones my "Good Fairies" and best of Friends_] [Illustration] Chapter I