over all
those bridges and when at last he reached the garden gate he was very
tired, for he was old and feeble now. It was all he could do to give one
faint little knock. But the Beggar heard him and came running to let
him in. And when he saw him, how tired he was and how feeble, he put his
arm around him and helped him into the Garden and he said:

"You shall stay with me now forever and we shall be very happy
together."

And the Poor Man when he looked in the Beggar's face to thank him saw
that he was not a beggar at all but the Blessed Christ Himself. And then
he knew that he was in the Garden of Paradise.

[Illustration]

THE END

STORIES TO TELL

IT'S PERFECTLY TRUE AND OTHER STORIES. _By Hans Christian Andersen._
Twenty-eight stories translated from the Danish by Paul Leyssac.

13 DANISH TALES. _By Mary C. Hatch._ A baker's dozen of robust, humorous
folk tales.

MORE DANISH TALES. _By Mary C. Hatch._ Fifteen rollicking folk tales
retold from Sven Grundtvig's _Folkaeventyr_.

A BAKER'S DOZEN. _Selected by Mary Gould Davis._ Thirteen stories which
are especially successful in storytelling.

THE TREASURE OF LI-PO. _By Alice Ritchie._ Six original fairy tales set
in China and told with beauty and distinction.

THE SHEPHERD'S NOSEGAY: Stories from Finland and Czechoslovakia. _By
Parker Fillmore._ Children and storytellers alike will welcome these
rich and robust folk tales, long unavailable.

ROOTABAGA STORIES. _By Carl Sandburg._ An omnibus volume including all
the stories originally published in the two books _Rootabaga Stories_
and _Rootabaga Pigeons_.

THE TIGER'S WHISKER: And Other Tales and Legends from Asia and the
Pacific. _By Harold Courlander._ Thirty-one Far Eastern folk tales, full
of sly humor, adventure, and virtue rewarded.

THE HAT-SHAKING DANCE and Other Tales from the Gold Coast. _By Harold
Courlander and Albert Kofi Prempeh._ A handsome collection of twenty-one
wise and humorous Ashanti folk tales.

HARCOURT, BRACE & WORLD, INC.
757 _Third Avenue, New York 17, N. Y._

_=The Magic Listening Cap=_

_More Folk Tales from Japan_

BY YOSHIKO UCHIDA

Wisdom and humor abound in the fourteen folk tales of this second
collection by the author of _The Dancing Kettle_. Once more Miss Uchida
has dipped into the wealth of Japanese folklore to retell delightful
stories that American children have seldom heard.

"The Wrestling Match of the Two Buddhas," "The Man Who Bo