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Tonight, I will be reading a fairy tale called The Wind Fairies by Mary DeMorgan.

If you're interested in listening to more fairy tales, I have a link in the show notes to a playlist

with over nine hours of fairy tales that I have read on the podcast.

Take a look in the show notes when you have the chance.

So lie down, close your eyes, and let me read you a story.

The Wind Ferrys.

There was once a windmill which stood on the downs by the sea, far from any town or village,

and in which the miller lived alone with his little daughter.

His wife had died when the little girl, whose name was Lucilla, was a baby,

and so the miller lived by himself with his child,

of whom he was very proud. As her father was busy with his work, and as little Lucilla had

no other children to play with, she was alone nearly all day, and had to amuse herself as

best as she could.

And one of her greatest pleasures was to sit and watch the great sails of the windmill figures like them, and they held each other by the hand, and were dancing and springing from the ground,

as likely as if they had been made a feather down.

"'Come, sisters, come,' cried the one nearest Lucilla.

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