CONTENTS

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[PREFACE]
[THE SHOEMAKER AND THE ELVES]English Folk Tale7
[THE SHIP]Old English Rhyme13
[THE WOLF AND THE SEVEN YOUNG KIDS]William and Jacob Grimm14
[THEY DIDN'T THINK]Phoebe Cary22
[TOM THUMB]English Fairy Tale24
[SUPPOSE]Alice Cary34
[CINDERELLA]English Fairy Tale36
[RAINDROPS]Ann Hawkshawe43
[THE FOUR FRIENDS]William and Jacob Grimm44
[LITTLE BIRDIE]Alfred Tennyson54
[MOTHER FROST]William and Jacob Grimm55
[IF EVER I SEE]Lydia Maria Child65
[WHY THE BEAR'S TAIL IS SHORT]German Folk Tale66
[RUMPELSTILTSKIN]William and Jacob Grimm70
[BED IN SUMMER]Robert Louis Stevenson81
[THE GOLDEN TOUCH]Greek Myth82
[OVER IN THE MEADOW]Olive A. Wadsworth89
[THE BELL OF ATRI]German Folk Tale92
[THE BABY]Hugh Miller96
[BRUCE AND THE SPIDER]Scottish Tradition97
[THE WISE LITTLE PIG]Anonymous100
[AN INDIAN STORY]102
[A GOOD PLAY]Robert Louis Stevenson112
[DICK WHITTINGTON]English Folk Tale113
[THE NEW MOON]Eliza Lee Follen124
[BRIAR ROSE]William and Jacob Grimm126
[ALL THINGS BEAUTIFUL]Mrs. C.F. Alexander135
[THE BAKER BOYS AND THE BEES]German Folk Tale136
[FALLING SNOW]Anonymous142
[LITTLE GOODY TWO SHOES]Ascribed to Goldsmith143
[ONE STEP AND THEN ANOTHER]Anonymous157
[GOOD NIGHT AND GOOD MORNING]Lord Houghton158
[DAVID AND GOLIATH]Adapted from the Bible160
[PHONETIC TABLES]167

THE SHOEMAKER AND THE ELVES—I

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A shoemaker and his wife lived in a little house on the edge of a wood.

They were very, very poor, and each day they grew poorer and poorer.