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over all those bridges and when at last he reached the garden gate he was very tired, for he was old and feeble now. It was all he could do to give one faint little knock. But the Beggar heard him and came running to let him in. And when he saw him, how tired he was and how feeble, he put his arm around him and helped him into the Garden and he said: "You shall stay with me now forever and we shall be very happy together." And the Poor Man when he looked in the Beggar's face to thank him saw that he was not a beggar at all but the Blessed Christ Himself. And then he knew that he was in the Garden of Paradise. [Illustration] THE END STORIES TO TELL IT'S PERFECTLY TRUE AND OTHER STORIES. _By Hans Christian Andersen._ Twenty-eight stories translated from the Danish by Paul Leyssac. 13 DANISH TALES. _By Mary C. Hatch._ A baker's dozen of robust, humorous folk tales. MORE DANISH TALES. _By Mary C. Hatch._ Fifteen rollicking folk tales retold from Sven Grundtvig's _Folkaeventyr_. A BAKER'S DOZEN. _Selected by Mary Gould Davis._ Thirteen stories which are especially successful in storytelling. THE TREASURE OF LI-PO. _By Alice Ritchie._ Six original fairy tales set in China and told with beauty and distinction. THE SHEPHERD'S NOSEGAY: Stories from Finland and Czechoslovakia. _By Parker Fillmore._ Children and storytellers alike will welcome these rich and robust folk tales, long unavailable. ROOTABAGA STORIES. _By Carl Sandburg._ An omnibus volume including all the stories originally published in the two books _Rootabaga Stories_ and _Rootabaga Pigeons_. THE TIGER'S WHISKER: And Other Tales and Legends from Asia and the Pacific. _By Harold Courlander._ Thirty-one Far Eastern folk tales, full of sly humor, adventure, and virtue rewarded. THE HAT-SHAKING DANCE and Other Tales from the Gold Coast. _By Harold Courlander and Albert Kofi Prempeh._ A handsome collection of twenty-one wise and humorous Ashanti folk tales. HARCOURT, BRACE & WORLD, INC. 757 _Third Avenue, New York 17, N. Y._ _=The Magic Listening Cap=_ _More Folk Tales from Japan_ BY YOSHIKO UCHIDA Wisdom and humor abound in the fourteen folk tales of this second collection by the author of _The Dancing Kettle_. Once more Miss Uchida has dipped into the wealth of Japanese folklore to retell delightful stories that American children have seldom heard. "The Wrestling Match of the Two Buddhas," "The Man Who Bo
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