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Title: The Indian Fairy Book
From the Original Legends

Author: Cornelius Mathews

Illustrator: John McLenan

Release Date: August 5, 2007 [EBook #22248]

Language: English

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THE

INDIAN FAIRY BOOK.

FROM THE ORIGINAL LEGENDS.

BY

CORNELIUS MATHEWS.

With Illustrations by John McLenan.

ENGRAVED BY A. V. S. ANTHONY.

NEW-YORK:
PUBLISHED BY ALLEN BROTHERS.
1869.

Entered, according to act of Congress, in the year 1868, BY CORNELIUS
MATHEWS, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern
District of New-York.

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[Illustration: THE CELESTIAL SISTERS. Page 11.]

PREFACE.

The following stories have been, time out of mind, in their original
form, recited around the lodge-fires and under the trees, by the Indian
story-tellers, for the entertainment of the red children of the West.
They were originally interpreted from the old tales and legends by the
late Henry R. Schoolcraft, and are now re-interpreted and developed by
the Editor, so as to enable them, as far as worthy, to take a place with
the popular versions of the Arabian Nights' Entertainments, Cinderella,
Little Red Riding Hood, and other world-renowned tales of Europe and the
East, to which, in their original conception, they bear a resemblance in
romantic interest and quaint extravagance of fancy. The Editor hopes
that these beautiful and sprightly legends of the West, if not marred in
the handling, will repay, in part at least, the glorious debt which we
have incurred to the Eastern World for her magical gifts of the same
kind.
October, 1868.

CONTENTS.
PAGE

I.--THE CELESTIAL SISTERS 7

II.--THE BOY WHO SET A SNARE FOR THE SUN