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"HE ASKED HER WHITHER SHE WAS GOING" _facing_ 24

"'WHAT IS THIS I SEE?' SAID HER MOTHER" 28

"'AM I COME HITHER TO SERVE YOU WITH WATER, PRAY?'" _facing_ 30

"'WHAT, IS NOT THE KEY OF MY CLOSET AMONG THE REST?'" 36

"THIS MAN HAD THE MISFORTUNE TO HAVE A BLUE BEARD" _facing_ 38

"AT THIS VERY INSTANT THE YOUNG FAIRY CAME OUT FROM
BEHIND THE HANGINGS" 48

THE PRINCE ENQUIRES OF THE AGED COUNTRYMAN _facing_ 54

"HE SAW, UPON A BED, THE FINEST SIGHT WAS EVER
BEHELD" _facing_ 56

"'I WILL HAVE IT SO,' REPLIED THE QUEEN, 'AND WILL
EAT HER WITH SAUCE ROBERT'" 59

"THE MARQUIS GAVE HIS HAND TO THE PRINCESS, AND
FOLLOWED THE KING, WHO WENT UP FIRST" _facing_ 74

"AWAY SHE DROVE, SCARCE ABLE TO CONTAIN HERSELF FOR JOY" 78

"ANY ONE BUT CINDERILLA WOULD HAVE DRESSED THEIR
HEADS AWRY" _facing_ 80

"SHE LEFT BEHIND ONE OF HER GLASS SLIPPERS, WHICH THE
PRINCE TOOK UP MOST CAREFULLY" 87

"THE PRINCE BELIEVED HE HAD GIVEN HER MORE WITH THAN
HE HAD RESERVED FOR HIMSELF" 99

"RIQUET WITH THE TUFT APPEARED TO HER THE FINEST
PRINCE UPON EARTH" _facing_ 104

"LITTLE THUMB WAS AS GOOD AS HIS WORD, AND RETURNED
THAT SAME NIGHT WITH THE NEWS" 110

"HE BROUGHT THEM HOME BY THE VERY SAME WAY THEY CAME" _facing_ 112

"JUPITER APPEARED BEFORE HIM WIELDING HIS MIGHTY
THUNDERBOLTS" 128

"A LONG BLACK PUDDING CAME WINDING AND WRIGGLING
TOWARDS HER" _facing_ 130

"TRUTH TO TELL, THIS NEW ORNAMENT DID NOT SET OFF HER
BEAUTY" 133

"ANOTHER GOWN THE COLOUR OF THE MOON" 138

"HE THOUGHT THE PRINCESS WAS HIS QUEEN" 143

"CURIOSITY MADE HIM PUT HIS EYE TO THE KEYHOLE" _facing_ 150

INTRODUCTION

"Avec ardeur il aima les beaux arts."

_Griselidis_

_Charles Perrault must have been as charming a fellow as a man could
meet. He was one of t