printed in
United States of America

Published June 1918 [[v]]

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CONTENTS

PAGE
[THE BEAR’S SON] 1
[THE GOLDEN APPLE-TREE AND THE NINE PEAHENS] 9
[PAPALLUGA; OR, THE GOLDEN SLIPPER] 25
[SATAN’S JUGGLINGS AND GOD’S MIGHT] 32
[GOOD DEEDS ARE NEVER LOST] 36
[THE WICKED STEPMOTHER] 46
[BIRD GIRL] 52
[SIR PEPPERCORN] 55
[BASH-CHALEK; OR TRUE STEEL] 77
[THE BITER BIT] 104
[THE TRADE THAT NO ONE KNOWS] 119
[THE THREE SUITORS] 134
[THE GOLDEN-HAIRED TWINS] 141
[THE DREAM OF THE KING’S SON] 150
[THE THREE BROTHERS] 158
[THE SHEPHERD AND THE KING’S DAUGHTER] 190

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

IN COLOUR

[“Fished out a small box”] (see page [146]) Frontispiece
[“On the grave stood a large box of valuable clothes of different kinds”] To face page 28
[“The old witch spat on the fire”] 34
[“He noticed an old man on the shore”] 42
[“There appeared a great alligator with three heads”] 82
[“The giant brought out a tray on which stood a sparrow, a turtle-dove, and a quail”] 112
[“The old man on his great goat”] 154
[“He drove the cow to the hut where he had passed the night”] 194