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Title: Folk Tales Every Child Should Know

Author: Various

Release Date: February 24, 2005 [EBook #15164]

Language: English

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FOLK TALES
Every Child Should Know

EDITED BY
Hamilton Wright Mabie

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THE WHAT-EVERY-CHILD-SHOULD-KNOW-LIBRARY

_Published by_

DOUBLEDAY, DORAN & CO., INC., _for_
THE PARENTS' INSTITUTE, INC.
_Publishers of "The Parents' Magazine"_
9 EAST 40th STREET, NEW YORK

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The editor and publishers wish to express their appreciation to the
following firms for permission to use the material indicated:

To Messrs. G.P. Putnam's Sons for "Why the Sea is Salt," "The Lad Who
Went to the North Wind," "The Lad and the Deil," and "Ananzi and the
Lion," by Sir George Webbe Dasent, D.C.L.; to the Macmillan Company, New
York, for "The Grateful Foxes" and "The Badger's Money," by A.B.
Mitford; to Messrs. Macmillan & Company, London, for "The Origin of
Rubies," by Rev. Lal Behari Day; to Messrs. Charles Scribner's Sons for
"The Dun Horse," by George Bird Grinnell; to Messrs. Little, Brown &
Company for "The Peasant Story of Napoleon," by Honore de Balzac; to
Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Company for "Why Brother Bear Has No Tail,"
by Joel Chandler Harris, and for the following selections from "Sixty
Folk Tales, from Exclusively Slavonic Sources," translated by A.H.
Wratislaw, M.A.:--"Long, Broad, and Sharpsight," "Intelligence and
Luck," "George and the Goat," "The Wonderful Hair," "The Dragon and the
Prince," and "The Good Children."

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER

I. HANS IN LUCK
From Grimm's Fairy Tales.

II. WHY THE SEA IS SALT
From "Popular Tales from the
Norse," by Sir George Webbe
Dasent, D.C.L.

III. THE LAD WHO WENT TO THE NORTH WIND
From "Popular Tales from the
Norse," by Sir George Webbe