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Title: Tales of Wonder Every Child Should Know

Author: Various

Editor: Kate Douglas Wiggin and Nora Archibald Smith

Release Date: October 4, 2006 [EBook #19461]

Language: English

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What Every Child Should Know LIBRARY

TALES

OF WONDER

EVERY CHILD SHOULD KNOW

Edited by

KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN

and NORA ARCHIBALD SMITH

Published by DOUBLEDAY, DORAN & CO., INC., for

THE PARENTS' INSTITUTE, INC.

Publishers of "THE PARENTS' MAGAZINE"

_52 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York_

COPYRIGHT, 1909, BY DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY

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PUBLISHER'S NOTE

_Doubleday, Page & Company wish to make acknowledgment of their
indebtedness to the following publishers_:

_G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York and London, for permission to use "The
Five Queer Brothers," "The Two Melons" and "What the Birds Said," from
"Chinese Nights' Entertainment," by Adele M. Fielde; "The Lac of
Rupees," from "Indian Fairy Tales," by Joseph Jacobs; "The
Sea-maiden," from "Celtic Fairy Tales," by Joseph Jacobs; "The Black
Horse" and "The Farmer of Liddesdale," from "More Celtic Fairy Tales,"
by Joseph Jacobs; and "The Buried Moon," from "More English Fairy
Tales," by Joseph Jacobs._

_T. Y. Crowell & Company, New York, for permission to use "The
Grateful Crane" from "The Fire-fly's Lovers," by William Elliot
Griffis._

_Joseph McDonough, Albany, for permission to use "Little Surya Bai,"
"The Jackal, the Barber and the Brahmin," "Truth's Triumph," "The
Raksha's Palace," and "Panch-Phul Ranee,"