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This charming fairy tale tells a story of a magical stone heart that can grant wishes but can also corrupt its users with greed and power. The heart is passed down through generations of a family and causes misadventures and fairy mischief along the way. This book is a delightful read for children and adults alike. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 edition. Excerpt: ...Charles knew what a horribly dangerous thing he had got, and made all haste to be rid of it again. He felt as if he was carrying dynamite, or gunpowder, or some equally touchy and explosive compound. But to get the Flint Heart from his father was one thing; to get rid of it was quite another. He decided to speak to Unity in private, and presently he met her watching the ducks in the river not far off. Charles shouted roughly to her: "Come here, and be sharp about it!" She was astonished at the tone of his voice, but went instantly. "Don't stare," he said, "but just attend to me, and speak sense if you can. I've got the Flint Heart in my pocket. What shall I do with it?" "I wonder," said Unity; and Charles was so irritable and peppery and unlike himself, that he took his small sister by the shoulders and shook her. Ship happened to be passing by, and he could not stand this, so he came forward and looked at Charles with his blue eyes and showed his teeth and growled. "Would you, you cur!" cried Charles, and he picked up a great stone to throw at Ship. Then Unity said: "I wonder if you hadn't better fling away that Flint Heart, brother Charles, before it makes you any worse?" And Charles struggled against the horrid heart, and dragged it out of his pocket and threw it away with all his might. It fell into the river; but it was flat, and it went duckingand-draking all along a smooth pool and then jumped the bank and fell plump into a reedy swamp beyond. It was a place where green and pink and yellow bog moss grew, and the cruel little sundew, that catches flies with its leaves, and the butterwort with sticky foliage also, and the bog pimpernel, and other very pretty things that like...

Excerpt from The Flint Heart: A Fairy Story Very many years ago - perhaps five thou sand, perhaps more - there was a wonderful and a busy people swarming all over Dart moor. And if you don't know Where Dart moor is, get your map of England, and you'll find it in Devonshire. Some day, if you hap pen to be lucky, you may go there for a holi day, and then I can promise you a mighty treat. But you won't see exactly what I'm going to show you now, because the folk who begin this story have all vanished and their houses have nearly all vanished too. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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