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LAUGH NOR SMILE NOT, LITTLE FRIEND,
NOR THE FIRST TALE READ TO END,
TILL YOUR NAME BELOW IS SHOWN,
AND THE BOOK’S YOUR VERY OWN.
Tales of Laughter
McCLURE’S LIBRARY OF CHILDREN’S CLASSICS
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EDITED BY KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN AND NORA ARCHIBALD SMITH
GOLDEN NUMBERS
A BOOK OF VERSE FOR YOUTH
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THE POSY RING
A BOOK OF VERSE FOR CHILDREN
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PINAFORE PALACE
A BOOK OF RHYMES FOR THE NURSERY
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Library of Fairy Literature
THE FAIRY RING
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MAGIC CASEMENTS
A SECOND FAIRY BOOK
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OTHER VOLUMES TO FOLLOW
Send to the publishers for Complete Descriptive Catalogue
Tales of Laughter
A THIRD FAIRY BOOK
EDITED BY
KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN
AND
NORA ARCHIBALD SMITH
NEW YORK
THE McCLURE COMPANY
MCMVIII
Copyright, 1908, by The McClure Company
PUBLISHERS’ NOTE
The McClure Company wish to make acknowledgment of their indebtedness to the following publishers:
G. P. Putnam’s Sons, for permission to use “The Greedy Cat,” “Father Bruin in the Corner,” “The Pancake,” “The Death of Chanticleer,” “Reynard Wants to Taste Horse Flesh,” “Bruin and Reynard Partners,” “Pork and Honey,” and “Slip Root: Catch Reynard’s Foot,” from Tales from the Field; “The Most Frugal of Men,” “The Moon Cake,” “The Ladle that Fell from the Moon,” “The Young Head of the Family,” and “The Dreadful Boar,” from Chinese Nights Entertainment.
The American Book Company, for permission to use “Little Tuppen,” from Fairy Stories and Fables.
Little, Brown & Company, for permission to use “The Story of the Four Little Children who Went Round the World,” from Edward Lear’s Nonsense Books.
F. A. Stokes Company, for permission to use “Little Black Mingo,” “The Lad and the Fox,” “The Old Woman and the Tramp,” “The Cook and the Crested Hen,” and “The Old Woman and the Fish,” from Fairy Tales from the Swedish; “One’s Own Children Always Prettiest,” and “The Princess whom Nobody Could Silence,” from Fairy Tales from the Far North.
F. Warne & Company, for permission to use “The Money Box,” “The Happy Family,” and “It is Quite True,” from Hans Andersen’s Fairy Tales.
J. B. Lippincott, for permission to use “Manabozho and His Toe,” from North American Indian Fairy Tales; “The Three Wishes,” “If Heaven Will It,” and “The Fox and the Goose,” from Spanish Fairy Tales; “Hans in Luck,” “The Fox and the Cat,” “The Fisherman and His Wife,” and “The Adventures of Chanticleer and Partlet,” from Grimm’s Fairy Tales.
Charles Scribner’s Sons, for permission to use “The Fox and the Dove,” “The Fox and the Hedgehog,” “The Disappointed Bear,” and “Young Neverfull,” from Russian Grandmother’s Wonder Stories.
George Routledge & Sons, Ltd., for permission to use “The Flail which Came from the Clouds,” “The Wren and the Bear,” “The Wolf and the Fox,” “The Three Luck-Children,” “The Three Sluggards,” “The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership,” “Old Sultan,” “The Shreds,” “The Fox and the Horse,” “The Seven Swabians,” “The Giant and the Tailor,” and “The Little Shepherd Boy,” from Grimm’s Household Stories.
Joseph McDonough, for permission to use “How the Sun, the Moon and the Wind went out to Dinner,” “Singh Rajah and the Cunning Little Jackals,” “The Blind Man, the Deaf Man and the Donkey,” “The Alligator and the Jackal,” and “The Selfish Sparrow and the Houseless Crows,” from Old Deccan Days.
A. L. Burt & Company, for permission to use “Gudbrand on the Hillside” and “Nanny who Wouldn’t Go to Supper,” from Fairy Tales from the Far North.