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Contents Preface............................................................................................................................................................................ 5 TOM TIT TOT ............................................................................................................................................................. 9 THE THREE SILLIES .............................................................................................................................................. 13 THE ROSE-TREE ...................................................................................................................................................... 16 THE OLD WOMAN AND HER PIG ....................................................................................................................... 19 HOW JACK WENT TO SEEK ................................................................................................................................ 21 HIS FORTUNE ........................................................................................................................................................... 21 MR. VINEGAR........................................................................................................................................................... 23 NIX NOUGHT NOTHING ........................................................................................................................................ 26 JACK HANNAFORD ................................................................................................................................................ 30 BINNORIE .................................................................................................................................................................. 32 MOUSE AND MOUSER ........................................................................................................................................... 34 CAP O’ RUSHES ....................................................................................................................................................... 35 TEENY-TINY ............................................................................................................................................................. 39 JACK AND THE BEANSTALK............................................................................................................................... 40 THE MASTER AND HIS PUPIL ............................................................................................................................. 48 TITTY MOUSE AND TATTY MOUSE................................................................................................................... 50 JACK AND HIS GOLDEN SNUFF-BOX ............................................................................................................... 52 THE STORY OF THE THREE BEARS .................................................................................................................. 60 JACK THE GIANT-KILLER ................................................................................................................................... 63 HENNY-PENNY ......................................................................................................................................................... 73 CHILDE ROWLAND ................................................................................................................................................ 75 MOLLY WHUPPIE ................................................................................................................................................... 80 THE RED ETTIN ....................................................................................................................................................... 83 THE GOLDEN ARM ................................................................................................................................................. 88 THE HISTORY OF TOM THUMB ......................................................................................................................... 89 MR. FOX ..................................................................................................................................................................... 94 LAZY JACK ............................................................................................................................................................... 97 JOHNNY-CAKE ........................................................................................................................................................ 99 EARL MAR’S DAUGHTER ................................................................................................................................... 101 MR. MIACCA .......................................................................................................................................................... 104 WHITTINGTON AND HIS CAT ........................................................................................................................... 105 THE STRANGE VISITOR ...................................................................................................................................... 113 THE LAIDLY WORM ............................................................................................................................................. 115 OF SPINDLESTON HEUGH .................................................................................................................................. 115 THE CAT AND THE MOUSE ................................................................................................................................ 118 THE FISH AND THE RING ................................................................................................................................... 120 THE MAGPIE’S NEST ........................................................................................................................................... 123 KATE CRACKERNUTS ......................................................................................................................................... 124 THE CAULD LAD OF HILTON ............................................................................................................................ 127 THE ASS, THE TABLE, AND THE STICK ......................................................................................................... 129 FAIRY OINTMENT ................................................................................................................................................. 132 THE WELL OF THE WORLD’S END ................................................................................................................. 134 MASTER OF ALL MASTERS ............................................................................................................................... 137 THE THREE HEADS OF THE WELL ................................................................................................................. 138 NOTES AND REFERENCES ................................................................................................................................. 142 Joseph Jacobs ENGLISH Preface WHO SAYS that English folk have no fairy-tales of their own? The present volume contains only a selection out of some FAIRY TALES 140, of which I have found traces in this country. It is prob- able that many more exist. COLLECTED BY A quarter of the tales in this volume, have been collected during the last ten years or so, and some of them have not JOSEPH JACOBS been hitherto published. Up to 1870 it was equally said of France and of Italy, that they possessed no folk-tales. Yet, HOW TO GET INTO THIS BOOK. within fifteen years from that date, over 1000 tales had been collected in each country. I am hoping that the present vol- Knock at the Knocker on the Door, ume may lead to equal activity in this country, and would Pull the Bell at the side, earnestly beg any reader of this book who knows of similar tales, to communicate them, written down as they are told, Then, if you are very quiet, you will hear a teeny tiny voice say to me, care of Mr. Nutt. The only reason, I imagine, why through the grating “Take down