Excerpt from The Wagner Story Book: Firelight Tales of the Great Music Dramas This little girl's mother is rather a strange sort of woman. I do not know that she exact ly disagrees with us about these stories that we both like so much, but She seems to have a different way of looking at them from ours. I sometimes suspect that she does not even be. Lieve in fairies at all, that she never so much as thought she saw a ghost, that, if she heard a dozen wild horses galloping over the roof of the house and then flying away into the sky, she would think it was only the Wind, and that she is no more afraid of ogres than of police men. Still She is a woman whom one cannot help liking, in some respects. But one day she said something to the little girl that surprised me, and made me think that perhaps I had done her injustice. The child came to me with a face full of perplexity and said What do you suppose mamma just told me? 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.