that day month she rolled the
pie-crust out, and Captain Murderer cut her head off, and chopped her in
pieces, and peppered her, and salted her, and put her in the pie, and
sent it to the baker's, and ate it all, and picked the bones.

But before she began to roll out the paste she had taken a deadly poison
of a most awful character, distilled from toads' eyes and spiders'
knees, and Captain Murderer had hardly picked her last bone when he
began to swell, and to turn blue, and to be all over spots, and to
scream. And he went on swelling and turning bluer, and being more all
over spots and screaming, until he reached from floor to ceiling and
from wall to wall; and then, at one o'clock in the morning, he blew up
with a loud explosion. At the sound of it all the milk-white horses in
the stables broke their halters and went mad, and then they galloped
over everybody in Captain Murderer's house (beginning with the family
blacksmith, who had filed his teeth) until the whole were dead, and then
they galloped away.

PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN

WELLS GARDNER, DARTON AND CO., LTD., LONDON

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Illustrated by A. G. Walker

A BOOK OF BALLAD STORIES

Selected and Edited by MARY MACLEOD

With Introduction by EDWARD DOWDEN

[Illustration:

'Beyond it rose a castle fair
Y-built of marble stone;
The battlements were gilt with gold,
And glittered in the sun.--_p. 129._]

[Illustration: 'She stoutly steered the stots about.'--_p. 110._]

'_Miss Mary Macleod has succeeded admirably in keeping much of the
spirit of the originals in her prose versions of the best of the old
ballads._'

TRUTH.

'_Should take a high place. In this work the famous ballads have been
done into prose so skilfully, and have been so artistically illustrated,
that it forms a volume to be highly prized._'--STANDARD.

_Large crown 8vo. printed on superfine paper, cloth boards._

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Illustrated by Gordon Browne

FAIRY TALES FROM GRIMM

With Introduction by

S. BARING GOULD

'_Of new editions of old favourites the palm must be given, we think, to
this collection of Fairy Tales from Grimm.... We do not think a better
edition has appeared._'

REVIEW OF REVIEWS.

'_No more acceptable edition of some of Grimm's Stories has been
published._'--STANDARD.

'_Altogether delightful. The illustrations are full of charm and
sympa