THE BOOK OF
ELVES AND FAIRIES
FOR STORY-TELLING AND READING ALOUD
AND FOR THE CHILDREN’S OWN READING
BY
FRANCES JENKINS OLCOTT
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY MILO WINTER
BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The Riverside Press Cambridge
1918
COPYRIGHT, 1918, BY FRANCES JENKINS OLCOTT
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Published October 1918
TO
THEODORE OLCOTT PHILLIPS
“Good luck befriend thee, son; for, at thy birth,