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Title: Europa's Fairy Book

Author: Joseph Jacobs

Illustrator: John D. Batten

Release Date: July 10, 2008 [EBook #26019]

Language: English

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EUROPA'S

FAIRY TALES

"_Do tell us a fairy tale, ganpa._"

"_Well, will you be good and quiet if I do?_"

"_Of course we will; we are always good when you are telling
us fairy tales._"

"_Well, here goes.--Once upon a time, though it wasn't in my
time, and it wasn't in your time, and it wasn't in anybody
else's time, there was a----_"

"_But that would be no time at all._"

"_That's fairy tale time._"

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[Illustration: _The Marshal tells how he killed the Dragon_]

EUROPA'S

FAIRY BOOK

RESTORED AND RETOLD BY

JOSEPH JACOBS

DONE INTO PICTURES BY

JOHN D. BATTEN

G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS

NEW YORK AND LONDON

The Knickerbocker Press

COPYRIGHT, 1916

BY

JOSEPH JACOBS

* * * * *

To

PEGGY, AND MADGE, AND PEARL, AND MAGGIE,
AND MARGUERITE, AND PEGGOTTY, AND MEG,
AND MARJORY, AND DAISY, AND PEGG, AND

MARGARET HAYS

(How many granddaughters does that make?)

MY DEAR LITTLE PEGGY:--

Many, many, many years ago I wrote a book for your Mummey--when she
was my little May--telling the fairy tales which the little boys and
girls of England used to hear from their mummeys, who had heard them
from their mummeys years and years and years before. My friend Mr.
Batten made such pretty pictures for it--but of course you know the
book--it has "Tom, Tit, Tot" and "The little old woman that went to
market," and all those tales you li