The Yellow Fairy Book
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Lang Andrew. The Yellow Fairy Book
PREFACE
THE CAT AND THE MOUSE IN PARTNERSHIP
THE SIX SWANS
THE DRAGON OF THE NORTH2
STORY OF THE EMPEROR'S NEW CLOTHES4
THE GOLDEN CRAB5
THE IRON STOVE7
THE DRAGON AND HIS GRANDMOTHER
THE DONKEY CABBAGE
THE LITTLE GREEN FROG8
THE SEVEN-HEADED SERPENT9
THE GRATEFUL BEASTS11
THE GIANTS AND THE HERD-BOY12
THE INVISIBLE PRINCE
THE CROW 13
HOW SIX MEN TRAVELLED THROUGH THE WIDE WORLD
THE WIZARD KING 14
THE NIXY 15
THE GLASS MOUNTAIN 16
ALPHEGE, OR THE GREEN MONKEY
FAIRER-THAN-A-FAIRY
THE THREE BROTHERS17
THE BOY AND THE WOLVES, OR THE BROKEN PROMISE
THE GLASS AXE19
THE DEAD WIFE20
IN THE LAND OF SOULS21
THE WHITE DUCK
THE WITCH AND HER SERVANTS22
THE MAGIC RING
THE FLOWER QUEEN'S DAUGHTER23
THE FLYING SHIP24
THE SNOW-DAUGHTER AND THE FIRE-SON25
THE STORY OF KING FROST26
THE DEATH OF THE SUN-HERO27
THE WITCH28
THE HAZEL-NUT CHILD29
THE STORY OF BIG KLAUS AND LITTLE KLAUS
PRINCE RING 30
THE SWINEHERD
HOW TO TELL A TRUE PRINCESS
THE BLUE MOUNTAINS
THE TINDER-BOX
THE WITCH IN THE STONE BOAT31
THUMBELINA
THE NIGHTINGALE
HERMOD AND HADVOR32
THE STEADFAST TIN-SOLDIER
BLOCKHEAD HANS
A STORY ABOUT A DARNING-NEEDLE
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The Editor thinks that children will readily forgive him for publishing another Fairy Book. We have had the Blue, the Red, the Green, and here is the Yellow. If children are pleased, and they are so kind as to say that they are pleased, the Editor does not care very much for what other people may say. Now, there is one gentleman who seems to think that it is not quite right to print so many fairy tales, with pictures, and to publish them in red and blue covers. He is named Mr. G. Laurence Gomme, and he is president of a learned body called the Folk Lore Society. Once a year he makes his address to his subjects, of whom the Editor is one, and Mr. Joseph Jacobs (who has published many delightful fairy tales with pretty pictures)1 is another. Fancy, then, the dismay of Mr. Jacobs, and of the Editor, when they heard their president say that he did not think it very nice in them to publish fairy books, above all, red, green, and blue fairy books! They said that they did not see any harm in it, and they were ready to 'put themselves on their country,' and be tried by a jury of children. And, indeed, they still see no harm in what they have done; nay, like Father William in the poem, they are ready 'to do it again and again.'
Where is the harm? The truth is that the Folk Lore Society – made up of the most clever, learned, and beautiful men and women of the country – is fond of studying the history and geography of Fairy Land. This is contained in very old tales, such as country people tell, and savages:
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'Cleangone' was already on the poor Mouse's tongue, and scarcely was it out than the Cat made a spring at her, seized and swallowed her.
You see that is the way of the world.
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