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Title: Laboulaye's Fairy Book

Author: Various

Commentator: Kate Douglas Wiggin

Illustrator: Edward G. McCandlish

Translator: Mary L. Booth

Release Date: August 21, 2008 [EBook #26386]

Language: English

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[Illustration: HE FLUNG HUGE MASSES OF ROCK AFTER THE VESSEL]

_Laboulaye's_ FAIRY BOOK

_Illustrated by_

Edward G.
McCandlish

_Translated by_

Mary L. Booth

_Introduction by_

Kate Douglas Wiggin

HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS, NEW YORK _and_ LONDON

LABOULAYE'S FAIRY BOOK

Copyright, 1866, 1920, by Harper & Brothers

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CONTENTS

PAGE

INTRODUCTION ix

YVON AND FINETTE 3

THE CASTLE OF LIFE 46

DESTINY 79

THE TWELVE MONTHS 86

SWANDA, THE PIPER 96

THE GOLD BREAD 102

THE STORY OF THE NOSES 109

THE THREE CITRONS 115

THE STORY OF COQUERICO 137

KING BIZARRE AND PRINCE CHARMING 145

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ILLUSTRATIONS

HE FLUNG HUGE MASSES OF ROCK AFTER THE VESSEL _Frontispiece_

HE WAS SOON SNORING SO LOUDLY THAT IT SEEMED LIKE THUNDER
SHAKING THE MOUNTAINS _Facing p._ 16

SHE FOUND HERSELF IN FRONT OF A WRETCHED HUT AT THE DOOR OF
WHICH STOOD AN OLD WOMAN, OF WHOM