The Forge in the Forest  by Padraic Colum

"The last story!" the King said. The piece of special iron was put into the fire; but the apprentice-smith who blew the fire with the bellows was not to be found. One of the brothers came forward; he took up the bellows and he blew upon the fire, and then, as the Air stirred up the Fire, he began to tell the second story that had to do with the Air:


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