FAVORITE FAIRY TALES ***
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[Illustration: _Adventures of Tom Thumb_ It Shone Down Upon the White Pebbles]
FAVORITE FAIRY TALES
ARRANGED BY
LOGAN MARSHALL
[Illustration]
_ONE HUNDRED ILLUSTRATIONS_
THE JOHN C. WINSTON COMPANY CHICAGO PHILADELPHIA TORONTO
COPYRIGHT, 1917, BY L. T. MYERS PRINTED IN U. S. A.
CONTENTS
PAGE
LITTLE SNOW WHITE 5
THE UGLY DUCKLING 22
ALADDIN AND THE WONDERFUL LAMP 43
THE SLEEPING BEAUTY 64
PUSS-IN-BOOTS 73
ADVENTURES OF TOM THUMB 81
THE THREE BEARS 95
THE LITTLE MATCH GIRL 103
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST 109
THE STORY OF CINDERELLA 122
JACK THE GIANT KILLER 135
JACK AND THE BEANSTALK 155
DICK WHITTINGTON AND HIS CAT 167
THE STORY OF BLUEBEARD 184
LITTLE RED RIDING-HOOD 195
SINDBAD THE SAILOR 202
HANSEL AND GRETEL 230
THE GOOSE GIRL 247
LITTLE SNOW-WHITE
[Illustration]
Once upon a time in the middle of winter, when the flakes of snow were falling like feathers from the clouds, a Queen sat at her palace window, which had an ebony black frame, stitching her husband's shirts. While she was thus engaged and looking out at the snow she pricked her finger, and three drops of blood fell upon the snow. Now the red looked so well upon the white that she thought to herself, "Oh, that I had a child as white as this snow, as red as this blood, and as black as the wood of this frame!" Soon afterwards a little daughter came to her, who was as white as snow, and with cheeks as red as blood, and with hair as black as ebony, and from this she was named "Snow-White." And at the same time her mother died.
About a year afterwards the King married another wife, who was very beautiful, but so proud and haughty that she could not bear anyone to be better-looking than herself. She owned a wonderful mirror, and when she stepped before it and said:
"Mirror, mirror on the wall, Who is the fairest of us all?"
it replied:
"The Queen is the fairest of the day."
Then she was pleased, for she knew that the mirror spoke truly.
Little Snow-White, however, grew up, and became prettier and prettier, and when she was seven years old she was as fair as the noonday, and more beautiful than the Queen herself. When the Queen now asked her mirror:
"Mirror, mirror on the wall, Who is the fairest of us all?"
it replied:
"The Queen was fairest yesterday; Snow-White is the fairest, now, they say."
