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Hamilton Wright Mabie

Folk Tales Every Child Should Know

eBook (A1 Feb. 26, 2011)
CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION


CHAPTER


I. HANS IN LUCK From Grimm's Fairy Tales.


II. WHY THE SEA IS SALT From "Popular Tales from the Norse," by Sir George Webbe Dasent, D.C.L.


III. THE LAD WHO WENT TO THE NORTH WIND From "Popular Tales from the Norse," by Sir George Webbe Dasent, D.C.L.


IV. THE LAD AND THE DEIL From "Popular Tales from the Norse," by Sir George Webbe Dasent, D.C.L.


V. ANANZI AND THE LION From "Popular Tales from the Norse," by Sir George Webbe Dasent, D.C.L.


VI. THE GRATEFUL FOXES From "Tales of Old Japan," by A.B. Mitford.


VII. THE BADGER'S MONEY From "Tales of Old Japan," by A.B. Mitford.


VIII. WHY BROTHER BEAR HAS NO TAIL From "Nights with Uncle Remus," by Joel Chandler Harris.


IX. THE ORIGIN OF RUBIES From "Folk Tales of Bengal," by Rev. Lal Behari Day.


X. LONG, BROAD, AND SHARPSIGHT Translated from the Bohemian by A.H. Wratislaw, M.A., in "Sixty Folk Tales, from Exclusively Slavonic Sources."


XI. INTELLIGENCE AND LUCK Translated from the Bohemian by A.H. Wratislaw, M.A., in "Sixty Folk Tales, from Exclusively Slavonic Sources."


XII. GEORGE WITH THE GOAT Translated from the Bohemian by A.H. Wratislaw, M.A., in "Sixty Folk Tales, from Exclusively Slavonic Sources."


XIII. THE WONDERFUL HAIR Translated from the Serbian by A.H. Wratislaw, M.A., in "Sixty Folk Tales, from Exclusively Slavonic Sources."


XIV. THE DRAGON AND THE PRINCE Translated from the Serbian by A.H. Wratislaw, M.A., in "Sixty Folk Tales, from Exclusively Slavonic Sources."


XV. THE GOOD CHILDREN A Little Russian story of Galicia. Translated by A.H. Wratislaw, M.A., in "Sixty Folk Tales, from Exclusively Slavonic Sources."


XVI. THE DUN HORSE From "Pawnee Hero Stories and Folk Tales," by George Bird Grinnell.


XVII. THE GREEDY YOUNGSTER From the Norwegian tale of Peter Christen Asbjrnsen.


XVIII. HANS, WHO MADE THE PRINCESS LAUGH From the Norwegian tale of Peter Christen Asbjrnsen.


XIX. THE STORY OF TOM TIT TOT An old Suffolk Tale, given in the dialect of East Anglia. From "Tom Tit Tot. An Essay on Savage Philosophy in Folk Tale," by Edward Clodd.


XX. THE PEASANT STORY OF NAPOLEON From "The Country Doctor," by Honor de Balzac. Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.


Illustrated with 10 unique illustrations.
Pages
122

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