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Title: The National Nursery Book
With 120 illustrations

Author: Unknown

Release Date: March 8, 2008 [EBook #24778]

Language: English

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THE

NATIONAL NURSERY BOOK.

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THE NATIONAL

NURSERY BOOK.

COMPRISING

RED RIDING-HOOD.
PUSS-IN-BOOTS.
MOTHER HUBBARD.
COCK ROBIN'S DEATH.
JACK AND BEAN-STALK.
TOM THUMB.
CINDERELLA.
THE THREE BEARS.
PUNCH AND JUDY.
THE PETS.
NURSERY SONGS.
NURSERY RHYMES.
NURSERY DITTIES.
NURSERY TALES.
NURSERY JINGLES.

WITH

_ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY ILLUSTRATIONS_.

London:
FREDERICK WARNE AND CO.,

BEDFORD STREET, COVENT GARDEN.
NEW YORK: SCRIBNER, WELFORD, AND ARMSTRONG.

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CONTENTS.

RED RIDING-HOOD.
PUSS-IN-BOOTS.
MOTHER HUBBARD.
COCK ROBIN'S DEATH.
JACK AND THE BEAN-STALK.
TOM THUMB.
CINDERELLA.
THE THREE BEARS.
PUNCH AND JUDY.
THE PETS.
NURSERY SONGS.
NURSERY RHYMES.
NURSERY DITTIES.
NURSERY TALES.
NURSERY JINGLES.

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PREFACE.

The Publishers offer in this little volume well known and long loved
stories to their young readers. The tales which have delighted the
children of many generations will, they feel assured, be equally welcome
in the nurseries of the present day, which, with the popularity and
antiquity of the contents of the volume, justify them in styling it THE
NATIONAL NURSERY BOOK.

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RED RIDING-HOOD.

Once upon a time there lived on the borders of a great forest a woodman
and his wife who had one little daughter, a sweet, kind child, whom
every one loved. She was the joy of her mother's heart, and to please
her, the good woman made her a lit