Fairy Tales Told in the Bush

Download or read book Fairy Tales Told in the Bush written by Sister Agnes and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-11-05 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fairytale book is a collection of folktales famous in Australia and told as bedtime stories to children in the Australian bush. "The Magic Gun" and "The Underground River," are original, but the others have been brought from the old country, not in book form, but in the memory of a lover of fairies and children. These tales, as told here, charmed the writer in the "Sixties" when Melbourne was a place of bush and swamp. They now charm little slum children in the so-called "slum parts" of the city of Melbourne, "The Palace of Truth" and "The Magic Gun" being always asked for when stories are to be told.