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Title: The Shoemaker's Apron
A Second Book of Czechoslovak Fairy Tales and Folk Tales

Author: Parker Fillmore

Illustrator: Jan Matulka

Release Date: June 27, 2010 [EBook #33002]

Language: English

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THE SHOEMAKER'S
APRON

CZECHOSLOVAK FOLK
_and_ FAIRY TALES

PARKER FILLMORE

$3.50

THE SHOEMAKER'S APRON

_A Book of Czechoslovak Fairy Tales and Folk Tales_

Retold in English by PARKER FILLMORE.

With illustrations and decorations by JAN MATULKA.

A collection of twenty stories, drawn from original sources, and chosen
for their variety of subject and range of interest. Here are fairy tales
conceived with all the gorgeousness of the Slavic imagination; charming
little nursery tales that might be told in nurseries the world over;
folk tales illustrative of the wit of a canny people; and rollicking
devil tales as surprising to the Anglo-Saxon imagination as they are
entertaining.

They are not in any sense academic translations, but vivid renditions by
a man who, besides being a student of folklore, was an accomplished
story-teller in his own right.

_Harcourt, Brace and Company_

383 MADISON AVENUE, NEW YORK 17, N.Y.

THE SHOEMAKER'S
APRON

_A Second Book of Czechoslovak
Fairy Tales and Folk Tales_

RETOLD BY

PARKER FILLMORE

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS
AND DECORATIONS BY

JAN MATULKA

[Illustration]

NEW YORK

HARCOURT, BRACE AND COMPANY

COPYRIGHT, 1920, BY
PARKER FILLMORE

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

[Illustration]

NOTE

The stories in this volume are all of Czech, Moravian, and Slovak
origin, and are to be found in many versions in the books of fol