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    RUMPTY-DUDGET'S TOWER - A Children's Fairy Tale Adventure
    RUMPTY-DUDGET'S TOWER - A Children's Fairy Tale Adventure
    RUMPTY-DUDGET'S TOWER - A Children's Fairy Tale Adventure
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    RUMPTY-DUDGET'S TOWER - A Children's Fairy Tale Adventure

    By Julian Hawthorne

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    RUMPTY-DUDGET lived in a gray tower. His only pleasure was doing  mischief.

    The mischievous dwarf Rumpty-Dudget captures young Prince Henry and Henry's courageous sister, Princess Hilda, and brother, Prince Frank, set out to find and rescue him before Rumpty-Dudget can seize control of the kingdom!

    They set out from their parent’s palace, which stands on the borders of a great forest, on the other side of which was Fairy Land. What adventures will the Prince and Princess have as they venture through the Great Forest in search of their brother? Will they find their stolen brother and will they be able to rescue him?
    Join Princess Hilda and Prince Frank on this most important adventure.

    10% of the profit from the sale of this little book will be donated to charities.
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    THE INSPIRATION FOR THE BOOK
    IN 1877, Julian Hawthorne, son of the author, Nathaniel Hawthorne, was living in Twickenham, near London. He recounts a tale about the inspiration for Rumpty-Dudget; “My sister Una happened to be describing a queer character she had met that day: she had a gift for making swift and vivid portraits in words. “He was a little Rumpty-Dudget of a man,” she said, concluding her description. She may have meant to say, “Rumpelstiltskin,” the name of a dwarf immortalised in the Grimm fairy-tales, with which we had been familiar in our childhood. But her variation struck me soundly, and I said to myself, I’ll write a story about him!”
    But, in truth, the story, upon that inspiration, wrote itself. I had a fine time with it, and my own children, to whom it was read in manuscript, heartily approved it. Then Alexander Strahan, the publisher, and the first editor of the famous Contemporary Review, saw it and proclaimed, with many a Scottish burr, that it was “a varra fine piece of worrk, my boy, and does ye credit,” and he carried it off and published it in his new magazine for children.
    Julian Hawthorne
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    KEYWORDS/TAGS: Rumpty Dudget, Gray Tower, royal children, princess Hilda, prince frank, prince henry, palace, great forest, fairy land, adventure, seek, search, Princess, two Princes, Tom, Faithful Guardian, Ways of the Wind, Rumpty’s Triumph, Tom’s Plan, Diamond, Water-Drop, Golden Ivy-Seed, ivy seed, Magic Fire, Rescue, Fairy Queen, king, come with me, take hold, behold, cat, two large leaves, leaf stem, mamma, mother,
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAbela Publishing
    Release dateJun 16, 2020
    ISBN9788835849599
    RUMPTY-DUDGET'S TOWER - A Children's Fairy Tale Adventure

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      RUMPTY-DUDGET'S TOWER - A Children's Fairy Tale Adventure - Julian Hawthorne

      Rumpty-Dudget’s Tower

      A FAIRY TALE

      By

      Julian Hawthorne

      With Frontispiece In Color And Illustrations

      In Black And White By

      George W. Hood

      Originally Published By

      Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York

      [MCMXXIV]

      Resurrected By

      Abela Publishing, London

      [MMXX]

      Rumpty-Dudget’s Tower

      Typographical arrangement of this edition

      ©Abela Publishing 2020

      This book may not be reproduced in its current format

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      (including photocopy, file or video recording,

      internet web sites, blogs, wikis, or any other

      information storage and retrieval system)

      except as permitted by law

      without the prior written permission

      of the publisher.

      Abela Publishing,

      London, United Kingdom

      2020

      ISBN-13: 978-X-XXXXXX-XX-X

      Email

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      Rumpty-Dudget, Whose Only Pleasure Was In Doing Mischief, Lived In A Gray Tower.

      Contents

      I       The Princess and the two Princes

      II       Tom, the Faithful Guardian

      III       The Ways of the Wind

      IV       Rumpty-Dudget’s Triumph

      V       Tom’s Plan

      VI       The Diamond Water-Drop

      VII       The Golden Ivy-Seed

      VIII       The Magic Fire

      IX       The Rescue of Prince Henry

      Illustrations

      Rumpty-Dudget, whose only pleasure was in doing mischief, lived in a gray tower (in color)Frontispiece

      ‘Come with me, Princess Hilda, Prince Frank and Prince Henry’

      The two children took hold of it, and off they all went

      Behold! It was the golden ivy-seed

      The cat put Princess Hilda and Prince Frank on the two largest leaves, and got on the stem himself

      ‘Oh,’ said Princess Hilda, ‘you look like our mamma’

      Preface

      IN 1877, when I was living in Twickenham, near London, my sister Una happened to be describing a queer character she had met that day: she had a gift for making swift and vivid portraits in words. He was a little Rumpty-Dudget of a man, she said, concluding her description. She may have meant to say, Rumpelstiltskin, the name of a dwarf immortalised in the Grimm fairy-tales, with which we had been familiar in our childhood. But her variation struck me soundly, and I said to myself, I’ll write a story about him!

      But, in truth, the story, upon that inspiration, wrote itself. I had a fine time with it, and my own children, to whom it was read in manuscript, heartily approved it. Then Alexander Strahan, the publisher, and the first editor of the famous Contemporary Review, saw it and proclaimed, with many a Scottish burr, that it was a varra fine piece of worrk, my boy, and does ye credit, and he carried it off and published it in his new magazine for children. Afterward, the eminent firm of Longmans, Green and Longmans, of Paternoster Row, hard by Saint Paul’s, in London, considered it and said, If you can collect half a dozen others of the same sort, we would be glad to issue them in a volume. It was easy for me, in the late ’70’s, to do

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