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coyote opened his mouth wide she pushed the dolly right down 

 his throat. The red hair tickled him and made him sneeze, 

 and he sneezed and sneezed until he sneezed his old head off. 

 Then the little girl was glad and she got up and took the coyote 

 by the hind leg and dragged him out under the tree. Then she 

 picked up his old head and carried that off, too. Then she went 

 back and washed the coyote-stuff all off from the floor. When 

 that was done she put her dollies to bed, and then she went 

 to sleep again herself. When the other coyotes came around 

 in the night and saw what she had done, they were very much 

 afraid. 



In the morning when the fairies found it out they were very 

 glad, and they rubbed fairy-stuff on the doll Marguerite and 

 made her alive again. Then they all had such a good time 

 the little girl and the fairies and the dolls. They cooked and 

 ate and played in the grass, and the coyotes all ran away from 

 the mountain and didn't trouble them any more. 

 * One day I was walking in the woods on the mountain and 

 I saw the little girl asleep on the grass. So I woke her up and 

 took her on my back and walked way down the mountain with 

 her and along the road clear to Escondite, where we used to 

 live. When the little girl got to Escondite, she looked at the 

 trees and the roses and the monkeys in the barn, and she said 

 she would stay there. And she has lived at our house ever 

 since. When the fairies came around her little house in the 

 woods, they saw that the little girl was gone, and at first they 

 felt badly; but when they found the little red-haired doll 

 named Marguerite they made her their queen and fixed up the 

 little house very nicely for her and for Old Baldy, and she has 

 been queen of the fairies ever since; and if you look up on the 

 mountain on a dark night you will see the little electric lights 

 that shine all night from her bedroom window so that the 

 fairies can see to dance on the grass. 



THE LITTLE LEGS THAT RAN AWAY 



ONCE there was a little girl and she used to take off her little 

 legs when she went to bed at night and put them with her 

 clothes and the rest of her things in a chair. And one night the 

 little legs got uneasy and ran away. They found the bedroom 

 door open; so they ran down the steps into the garden and 



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