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Title: The Cat and the Mouse
A Book of Persian Fairy Tales

Editor: Hartwell James

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Persian Fairy Tales

Altemus' Fairy Tales Series

THE CAT AND THE MOUSE

A Book of Persian Fairy Tales

Edited with an Introduction by

HARTWELL JAMES

With Forty Illustrations by John R. Neill

Philadelphia
Henry Altemus Company

* * * * *

Altemus'
Illustrated
Fairy Tales Series

The Magic Bed
A Book of East Indian Tales
The Cat and the Mouse
A Book of Persian Tales
The Jeweled Sea
A Book of Chinese Tales
The Magic Jaw Bone
A Book of South Sea Islands Tales
The Man Elephant
A Book of African Tales
The Enchanted Castle
A Book of Tales from Flower Land

Fifty Cents Each

* * * * *

Copyright, 1906
by Henry Altemus

INTRODUCTION

Persia is rich in folk lore. For hundreds and hundreds of years the
stories in this book, and many others as well, have been told to the
wondering boys and girls of that country, who, as they hear them,
picture their native land as one of roses and tulips, where beautiful
fairies build their castles in the rosy morn, and black gnomes fly
around in the darkness of midnight.

A land, too, where the sun gleams like a fire above the blue mountains,
and the water lilies are mirrored in the deep lakes. A land where the
eyes of the tigers gleam through the reeds by the riverside, and
dark-eyed, sunburned people are quick to love and quick to hate.

The belief in th