Bluebeard - 1 - Clifton Johnson

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BEDTIME WONDER TALES

CLIFTON JOHNSON

Hop-o’-My-Thumb The Babes in the Wood The Brave Tin Soldier The Fox and the Little Red Hen Golden Hair and the Three Bears Cinderella Puss in Boots Jack and the Beanstalk Little Red Riding-Hood The Story of Chicken-Licken Bluebeard Tom Thumb The Pied Piper The Sleeping Beauty St. George and the Dragon

Other books will be added to

the series from time to time.

Bluebeard’s Wife and the Forbidden Room (Page 16)

BEDTIME WONDER TALES

BLUEBEARD

CLIFTON JOHNSON

ILLUSTRATED BY

HARRY L. SMITH

NEW YORK

THE MACAULAY COMPANY

PUBLISHERS

By THE MACAULAY COMPANY

Printed in the U. S. A.

INTRODUCTORY NOTE

The books in this series of Bedtime Wonder Tales are made up of favorite stories from the folklore of all nations. Such stories are particularly enjoyed by children from four to twelve years of age. As here told they are free from the savagery, distressing details, and excessive pathos which mar many of the tales in the form that they have come down to us from a barbaric past. But there has been no sacrifice of the simplicity and humor and sweetness that give them perennial charm.

The sources of the stories in this volume are as follows: Page 11, France; 24, Grimm; 36, England; 49, Hindustan; 58, Italy; 78, Germany; 90, Scotland; 103, Japan; 118, Ireland; 127, American Negro.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER		PAGE
I	Bluebeard	[11]
II	The Blood-Stained Key	[17]
III	A Goblin in a Bottle	[24]
IV	A Scholar’s Fortune	[32]
V	Yallery Brown	[36]
VI	A Troublesome Helper	[43]
VII	The Little Jackal	[49]
VIII	The Blind Ogre	[58]
IX	Seven Doves	[64]
X	Time and His Mother	[71]
XI	Blockhead Hans	[78]
XII	The Rival Suitors	[85]
XIII	Cunning Tom	[90]
XIV	A Miser’s Hired Man	[96]
XV	The Boy in a Peach	[103]
XVI	A Warrior’s Helpers	[108]
XVII	The Island of Demons	[113]
XVIII	Andrew Coffey	[118]
XIX	Careless Mr. Buzzard	[127]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Bluebeard’s Wife and the Forbidden Room	[Frontispiece]
The Goblin Threatens the Scholar	[28]
The Alligator Goes to the Jackal’s House	[54]
Appealing to the Mother of Time	[72]
Blockhead Hans and the Dead Crow	[82]
The Monkey and the Warrior	[110]