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] |