English Fairy Tales

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Joseph Jacobs. English Fairy Tales
Preface
Tom Tit Tot
The Three Sillies
The Rose-tree
The Old Woman and Her Pig
How Jack Went to Seek His Fortune
Mr. Vinegar
Nix Nought Nothing
Jack Hannaford
Binnorie
Mouse and Mouser
Cap O' Rushes
Teeny-tiny
Jack and the Beanstalk
The Story of the Three Little Pigs
The Master and His Pupil
Titty Mouse and Tatty Mouse
Jack and His Golden Snuff-box
The Story of the Three Bears
Jack the Giant-killer
Henny-penny
Childe Rowland
Molly Whuppie
The Red Ettin
The Golden Arm
The History of Tom Thumb
Mr. Fox
Lazy Jack
Johnny-cake
Earl Mar's Daughter
Mr. Miacca
Whittington and His Cat
The Strange Visitor
The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh
The Cat and the Mouse
The Fish and the Ring
The Magpie's Nest
Kate Crackernuts
The Cauld Lad of Hilton
The Ass, the Table, and the Stick
Fairy Ointment
The Well of the World's End
Master of All Masters
The Three Heads of the Well
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Who says that English folk have no fairy-tales of their own? The present volume contains only a selection out of some 140, of which I have found traces in this country. It is probable that many more exist.
A quarter of the tales in this volume, have been collected during the last ten years or so, and some of them have not been hitherto published. Up to 1870 it was equally said of France and of Italy, that they possessed no folk-tales. Yet, within fifteen years from that date, over 1000 tales had been collected in each country. I am hoping that the present volume may lead to equal activity in this country, and would earnestly beg any reader of this book who knows of similar tales, to communicate them, written down as they are told, to me, care of Mr. Nutt. The only reason, I imagine, why such tales have not hitherto been brought to light, is the lamentable gap between the governing and recording classes and the dumb working classes of this country – dumb to others but eloquent among themselves. It would be no unpatriotic task to help to bridge over this gulf, by giving a common fund of nursery literature to all classes of the English people, and, in any case, it can do no harm to add to the innocent gaiety of the nation.
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She upped and she oped it, and there sure enough was the little old thing sitting on the ledge.
“Where's the flax?” says he.
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