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Title: Stories to Read or Tell from Fairy Tales and Folklore

Author: Laure Claire Foucher

Illustrator: Ada Budell

Release Date: December 9, 2008 [EBook #27467]

Language: English

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STORIES TO READ OR TELL

[Illustration: "A wonderful horse appeared, having a golden mane."
(P. 13)]

STORIES TO READ OR TELL
FROM
FAIRY TALES AND FOLKLORE

Selected and Edited
by
LAURE CLAIRE FOUCHER
Assistant in the New York Public Library

Illustrated by Ada Budell

NEW YORK
MOFFAT, YARD AND COMPANY
1917

COPYRIGHT, 1911, BY
MOFFAT, YARD AND COMPANY
NEW YORK

_Published October, 1911_
_New Edition March, 1917_

CONTENTS

The Stone-Cutter Japanese 1

Prince Kindhearted Polish 8

The Timid Hare and the Flight of the Beasts Hindu 17

The Bee, the Harp, the Mouse, and the Bum-Clock Irish 24

The Tale of the Pointer Tray German 40

The Enchanted Princess Russian 44

"It Is Quite True!" Danish 57

The Old Hag's Long Leather Bag Irish 63

The Wolf and the Seven Little Goats German 82

The Tale of the Snow and the Steeple German 89

King Longbeard Russian 93

The Toy Goose Danish 118

Yellow Lily Irish 123

The Mouse, the Bird, and the Sausage German 159

The Tale of the Wolf in Harness German 164

ILLUSTRATIONS

A wonderful horse appeared _Frontispiece_