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Title: Grimm Tales Made Gay

Author: Guy Wetmore Carryl

Illustrator: Albert Levering

Release Date: October 13, 2007 [EBook #23024]

Language: English

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GRIMM TALES MADE GAY
By GUY WETMORE CARRYL

With GAY PICTURES
By ALBERT LEVERING

[Illustration: _This shows the sword that Blue-Beard used full sore,
After he'd led his young wife to a door._]

GRIMM TALES MADE GAY
By GUY WETMORE CARRYL

AUTHOR OF
THIS AND MANY OTHER THINGS!

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PICTURES BY
ALBERT LEVERING

ARTIST OF
THAT THE OTHER AND THIS

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BOSTON & NEW YORK
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & Co.

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COPYRIGHT, 1902, BY GUY
WETMORE CARRYL AND
ALBERT LEVERING
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

_Published in October, 1902_

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TO CHARLES WALTON OGDEN

NOTE

_I have pleasure in acknowledging the courteous permission of
the editors to reprint in this form such of these verses as were
originally published in Harper's Magazine, The Century, Life, The
Smart Set, The Saturday Evening Post, The Home Magazine, and the
London Tatler.
G. W. C._

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The Contents

HOW THE BABES IN THE WOOD SHOWED THEY COULDN'T BE BEATEN

HOW FAIR CINDERELLA DISPOSED OF HER SHOE

HOW LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD CAME TO BE EATEN

HOW THE FATUOUS WISH OF A PEASANT CAME TRUE

HOW HOP O' MY THUMB GOT RID OF AN ONUS

HOW THE HELPMATE OF BLUE-BEARD MADE FREE WITH A DOOR

HOW RUMPLESTILZ HELD OUT IN VAIN FOR A BONUS

HOW JACK MADE THE GIANTS UNCOMMONLY SORE

HOW RUDENESS AND KINDNESS WERE JUSTLY REWARDED

HOW BEAUTY CONTRIVED TO GET SQUARE WITH THE BEAST

HOW A