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Title: Favorite Fairy Tales

Author: Logan Marshall

Release Date: March 16, 2007 [EBook #20748]

Language: English

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[Illustration: _Adventures of Tom Thumb_
It Shone Down Upon the White Pebbles]

FAVORITE
FAIRY TALES

ARRANGED BY

LOGAN MARSHALL

[Illustration]

_ONE HUNDRED ILLUSTRATIONS_

THE JOHN C. WINSTON COMPANY
CHICAGO PHILADELPHIA TORONTO

COPYRIGHT, 1917, BY
L. T. MYERS
PRINTED IN U. S. A.

CONTENTS

PAGE

LITTLE SNOW WHITE 5

THE UGLY DUCKLING 22

ALADDIN AND THE WONDERFUL LAMP 43

THE SLEEPING BEAUTY 64

PUSS-IN-BOOTS 73

ADVENTURES OF TOM THUMB 81

THE THREE BEARS 95

THE LITTLE MATCH GIRL 103

BEAUTY AND THE BEAST 109

THE STORY OF CINDERELLA 122

JACK THE GIANT KILLER 135

JACK AND THE BEANSTALK 155

DICK WHITTINGTON AND HIS CAT 167

THE STORY OF BLUEBEARD 184

LITTLE RED RIDING-HOOD 195

SINDBAD THE SAILOR 202

HANSEL AND GRETEL 230

THE GOOSE GIRL 247

LITTLE SNOW-WHITE

[Illustration]

Once upon a time in the middle of winter, when the flakes of snow were
falling like feathers from the clouds, a Queen sat at her palace window,
which had an ebony black frame, stitching her husband's shirts. While
she was thus engaged and looking out at the snow she pricked her finger,
and three drops of blood fell upon the snow. Now the red looked so well
upon the white that she thought to herself, "Oh, that I had a child as
white as this snow, as red as this blood, and as black as the wood of
this frame!" Soon afterwards a little daughter came to her, who was as
white as snow, and