Story: “A Tale for Halloween” by Loretta Ellen Brady (1920)
This is a children’s Halloween story from the book The Green Forest Fairy Book by Loretta Ellen Brady, published in 1920! It’s a collection of fairy tales, similar to the Brothers Grimm sort of stuff. Enjoy! A Tale for Halloween Babette and Antone were the children of a very poor woodcutter. They lived in a little cottage on the side of a steep mountain, and the mountain looked upon a great forest. Now though their father toiled in this forest from dawn until dark, he could earn but little. Wood in that region was plentiful, and woodcutters were numerous. Their…