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English Fairy Tales By: Flora Annie Webster Steel (1847-1929) |
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Retold by FLORA ANNIE STEEL Illustrated by Arthur Rackham First published by Macmillan & Co. 1918 [Illustration: Mr. and Mrs. Vinegar at home (page 190).] CONTENTS
ST. GEORGE OF MERRIE ENGLAND THE STORY OF THE THREE BEARS TOM TIT TOT THE GOLDEN SNUFF BOX TATTERCOATS THE THREE FEATHERS LAZY JACK JACK THE GIANT KILLER THE THREE SILLIES THE GOLDEN BALL THE TWO SISTERS THE LAIDLY WORM TITTY MOUSE AND TATTY MOUSE JACK AND THE BEANSTALK THE BLACK BULL OF NORROWAY CATSKIN THE THREE LITTLE PIGS NIX NAUGHT NOTHING MR. AND MRS. VINEGAR THE TRUE HISTORY OF SIR THOMAS THUMB HENNY PENNY THE THREE HEADS OF THE WELL MR. FOX DICK WHITTINGTON AND HIS CAT THE OLD WOMAN AND HER PIG THE WEE BANNOCK HOW JACK WENT OUT TO SEEK HIS FORTUNE THE BOGEY BEAST LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD CHILDE ROWLAND THE WISE MEN OF GOTHAM CAPORUSHES THE BABES IN THE WOOD THE RED ETTIN THE FISH AND THE RING LAWKAMERCYME MASTER OF ALL MASTERS MOLLY WHUPPIE AND THE DOUBLE FACED GIANT THE ASS, THE TABLE, AND THE STICK THE WELL OF THE WORLD'S END THE ROSE TREE ILLUSTRATIONS
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Mr. and Mrs. Vinegar at home "Somebody has been at my porridge, and has eaten it all up!" Tattercoats dancing while the gooseherd pipes The giant Cormoran was the terror of all the country side Taking the keys of the castle, Jack unlocked all the doors The giant Galligantua and the wicked old magician transform the
duke's daughter into a white hind "Tree of mine! O Tree of mine! Have you seen my naughty little
maid?" "Fee fi fo fum, I smell the blood of an Englishman" She went along, and went along, and went along And that is the story of Mr. and Mrs. Vinegar They thanked her and said good bye, and she went on her journey Many's the beating he had from the broomstick or the ladle When Puss saw the rats and mice she didn't wait to be told "Well!" she chuckled, "I am in luck!" She sat down and plaited herself an overall of rushes and a cap
to match The fisherman and his wife had no children, and they were just
longing for a baby
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Headpiece St. George of Merrie England When she came to St. George she started and laid her hand on
her heart "Somebody has been lying in my bed, and here she is!" "What is that you are singing, my good woman?" A small, little, black Thing with a long tail Away That flew into the dark, and she never saw it no more They brought the Castle of the golden pillars Jack found it hard to hoist the donkey on his shoulders "Odds splutter hur nails!" cried the giant, not to be outdone.
"Hur can do that hurself!" "Ah! Cousin Jack! Kind cousin Jack! This is heavy news indeed" Seated on a huge block of timber near the entrance to a dark
cave On his way ... to be revenged The country folk flying before him like chaff before the wind Headpiece The Three Sillies Headpiece The Golden Ball He heard the bogles striving under the bed Headpiece The Laidly Worm Tatty sat down and wept As he spoke he drew out of his pocket five beans Jack seized the axe and gave a great chop at the beanstalk So he huffed and he puffed and he blew the house in So he huffed and he puffed and he blew the house in Well! he huffed and he puffed ... but he could not
blow the house down At last he flew into a violent rage and flung his stick at the
bird A spider one day attacked him "I will go first and you come after, Henny penny, Cocky locky,
Ducky daddles, Goosey poosey, and Turkey lurkey" So she escaped The thorns closed in around her so that she was all scratched
and torn Dick finds that the streets of London are not paved with gold Dick Whittington hears Bow Bells The old woman and her pig Headpiece How Jack went out to seek his Fortune They both met together upon Nottingham bridge "A vengeance on her!" said they... Continue reading book >>
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