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The Flower Basket, by Unknown
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Title: The Flower Basket A Fairy Tale
Author: Unknown
Release Date: January 9, 2009 [EBook #27754]
Language: English
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Published by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, London, April, 6, 1816.
THE FLOWER BASKET.
A FAIRY TALE.
--------------I never may believe These antick fables, nor these fairy toys.
London:
PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, AND BROWN, PATERNOSTER ROW.
1816.
BARNARD AND FARLEY, Skinner-Street, London.
PREFACE.
Whoever honours the following little Tale with a perusal, will probably anticipate in the Preface, the so-often-framed apology, that it was not written with an intention of being published. Yet stale as the assurance may be, it is in this instance strictly true.
It was composed solely at the request, and for the amusement of, the children of a friend; nor would it ever have entered my head to offer any thing in the shape of a Fairy Tale to