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Title: Favorite Fairy Tales
Author: Logan Marshall
Release Date: March 16, 2007 [EBook #20748]
Language: English
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[Illustration: _Adventures of Tom Thumb_
It Shone Down Upon the White Pebbles]
FAVORITE
FAIRY TALES
ARRANGED BY
LOGAN MARSHALL
[Illustration]
_ONE HUNDRED ILLUSTRATIONS_
THE JOHN C. WINSTON COMPANY
CHICAGO PHILADELPHIA TORONTO
COPYRIGHT, 1917, BY
L. T. MYERS
PRINTED IN U. S. A.
CONTENTS
PAGE
LITTLE SNOW WHITE 5
THE UGLY DUCKLING 22
ALADDIN AND THE WONDERFUL LAMP 43
THE SLEEPING BEAUTY 64
PUSS-IN-BOOTS 73
ADVENTURES OF TOM THUMB 81
THE THREE BEARS 95
THE LITTLE MATCH GIRL 103
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST 109
THE STORY OF CINDERELLA 122
JACK THE GIANT KILLER 135
JACK AND THE BEANSTALK 155
DICK WHITTINGTON AND HIS CAT 167
THE STORY OF BLUEBEARD 184
LITTLE RED RIDING-HOOD 195
SINDBAD THE SAILOR 202
HANSEL AND GRETEL 230
THE GOOSE GIRL 247
LITTLE SNOW-WHITE
[Illustration]
Once upon a time in the middle of winter, when the flakes of snow were
falling like feathers from the clouds, a Queen sat at her palace window,
which had an ebony black frame, stitching her husband's shirts. While
she was thus engaged and looking out at the snow she pricked her finger,
and three drops of blood fell upon the snow. Now the red looked so well
upon the white that she thought to herself, "Oh, that I had a child as
white as this snow, as red as this blood, and as black as the wood of
this frame!" Soon afterwards a little daughter came to her, who was as
white as snow, and
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