TO AUGUSTA MARY,
for whose amusement the following stories were
from time to time written,

THIS LITTLE VOLUME,
in which they are now collected, is inscribed
for a memorial of the happy
days of her earliest
childhood.


CONTENTS.

Whittington and his Cat[1]
The Three Wishes[33]
Little Red-riding-hood[43]
Jack the Giant-killer[55]
Divers Small Histories
The Vain Mouse[79]
Cock Robin and Jenny Wren [83]
The Proud Eagle[87]
Young Lumpkin’s Hyæna[91]
The Young Thrushes[95]
M. P., or the Magpie[101]
The Pigeon and the Hen[105]
The Oyster and the Muscle[109]