[Tell Us a Tale]—Edward Shirley	[496]
[Little Red Hen]	[497]
[In Search of a Baby]—F. Tapsell	[498]
[Jock and I and the Others]	[500]
[Dolly Dimple]—F. Tapsell	[502]
[The Tale of Peter Rabbit]—Beatrix Potter	[503]
[The Miller, His Son, and Their Ass]	[506]
[The Visit to Santa Claus Land]	[507]
[The Greedy Brownie]	[511]
[The Fairies' Passage]—James Clarence Mangan	[513]
[The World]	[515]

FANCIFUL STORIES

[White Magic]	[516]
[The Brownies]—Juliana Horatia Ewing	[517]
[The Story of Peter Pan]	[522]
[Sir Lark and King Sun]—George MacDonald	[525]
[The Imps in the Heavenly Meadow]—Kate E. Bunce	[526]
[The Birthday Honors of the Fairy Queen]—Hapgood Moore	[531]

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ILLUSTRATIONS

[Thumbelina Came to Live with the Field-Mouse] (color)	[Frontispiece]
	facing page
[Simple Simon Went a-Fishing]	[6]
[There Was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe]	[9]
[Little Miss Muffet]	[9]
[Old Mother Hubbard]	[18]
[The Death of Cock-Robin]	[25]
["Who Has Been Tasting My Soup?"]	[34]
[It Was Her Fairy Godmother!]	[37]
[I Was the Giant Great and Still, that Sits Upon the Pillow Hill]	[82]
[I Found My Poor Little Doll]	[104]
[A Fair Little Girl Sat Under a Tree]	[107]
[Hansel and Gretel]	[118]
[Do Not Grieve, Dear Master]	[126]
[Little Red Riding-Hood]	[140]
[Red Riding-Hood and the Wolf]	[142]
[Prince Florimond Finds the Sleeping Beauty]	[150]
[The Tortoise and the Hare]	[222]
[The Fox without a Tail]	[222]
[A Voice Said Aloud, "The Tin Soldier!"]	[234]
[Two-Eyes, the Goat, and the 'Magic Table]	[286]
[Little Snow-White and the Peddler-Woman]	[306]
[The Prince Starts Homeward with His Treasure]	[322]
[The Castle of the White Cat]	[336]
[She Was Happy All Day Long in Fairyland][page xxii]	[340]
[This is the Valiant Cornishman Who Slew the Giant Cormoran]	[358]
[Connla and the Fairy Maiden]	[390]
[A Pheasant Also Came Flying and Said: "Give Me a Dumpling"]	[434]

(Many of the illustrations in this volume are reproduced by special permission of E. P. Dutton & Company, owners of the American rights.)

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