133

THE DOG 139

THE CASKET 140

THE MASTER-MAID WITH THE GLASS AXE 142

THE PRINCE WANTS HIS LUNCH 145

THE GIANT TRIES TO DRINK THE STREAM 154

THE VISITOR 159

UP THE TREE 163

THE SNAKE 165

THE THREE RAVENS 170

THE WOUNDED DRAGON 179

THE WITCH 180

THE DUCK 187

"MIRROR, MIRROR, ON THE WALL, WHO IS THE FAIREST OF US ALL?" 201

SNOWWHITE AND THE THREE DWARFS 211

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[Illustration: The Herald Announces the Court Ball]

THE CINDER-MAID

Once upon a time, though it was not in my time or in your time, or in
anybody else's time, there was a great King who had an only son, the
Prince and Heir who was about to come of age. So the King sent round a
herald who should blow his trumpet at every four corners where two
roads met. And when the people came together he would call out, "O
yes, O yes, O yes, know ye that His Grace the King will give on Monday
sennight"--that meant seven nights or a week after--"a Royal Ball to
which all maidens of noble birth are hereby summoned; and be it
furthermore known unto you that at this ball his Highness the Prince
will select unto himself a lady that shall be his bride and our future
Queen. God save the King."

Now there was among the nobles of the King's Court one who had married
twice, and by the first marriage he had but one daughter, and as she
was growing up her father thought that she ought to have some one to
look after her. So he married again, a lady with two daughters, and
his new wife, instead of caring for his daughter, thought only of her
own and favoured them in every way. She would give them beautiful
dresses but none to her step-daughter who had only to wear the
cast-off clothes of the other two. The noble's daught