List of Illustrations PAGE [King Oberon] [Coloured frontispiece] [Queen Titania] [1] [A small Indian prince had been stolen] [2] [And a fairy baby left in its place] [3] [“I do but beg a little changeling boy”] [4] [“The Fairyland buys not the child of men”] [5] [At once all the little people were hurrying to obey the monarch’s behest] [8-9] [The Scandinavian dwarf] [11] [His long red beard waved in the sky as he drove in his goat-drawn chariot] [12] [Loki descending into the cave of the dwarfs] [17] [Loki’s punishment] [20] [The fairy prince] [21] [Right in the middle of the flower sat a little tiny girl] [22] [The old toad made a deep curtsey in the water before her] [24] [Every snowflake which fell upon her was like a shovelful on one of us] [27] [It was not dead but lay in a swoon] [30] [Fiddle-de-dee said the field mouse] [32] [What was her astonishment to find a little man in the middle of the flower] [35] [The Irish fairy] [36] [A big laughing potato in their hands] [37] [Sitting cross-legged on the top of a wave] [44] [Jumped clean off the cart over the bridge down into the water] [45] [The gnome] [47] [The miller’s daughter] [48] [The king came in the morning] [51] [Dashed his right foot so deep into the floor that he was forced to lay hold of it with both hands to pull it out] [53] [The gnome] [54] [On he went scrambling] [55] [Twelve strange old figures amusing themselves very sedately with a game of nine-pins] [59] [The strange-looking man with the long grey beard] [63] [Fairy Peaseblossom] [64] [He laid his head against her bosom] [65] [The Saviour looked down and little angels’ heads peeped out above His head and under His arms] [69] [Even on her way to her death she could not abandon her unfinished work] [81] [Moth] [83] [He found it was a pair of very small shoes] [84] [The young herdsman advanced boldly] [93] [Tailpiece] [97] [Puck] [98] [Three poor soldiers set out on their road home] [99] [Still it grew and grew] [103] [“We will follow it and find its owner”] [105] [As for the doctor, he put on the cloak, and was soon with his two brothers] [108] [Robin Goodfellow] [108] [The pranks of Robin Goodfellow] [109] [“What revel rout”] [110] [“There’s not a hag or ghost shall wag”] [111] [“And call them on with me to roam thro’ lakes, thro’ bogs”] [112] [“The maids I kiss”] [113] [“I them affright with pinchings, dreams, and ho, ho, ho!”] [114] [“And elf in bed, we leave instead”] [115] [“So vale, vale, ho, ho, ho!”] [116] [The Swedish Troll] [116] [There appeared a strong light as of fire] [117] [Pinkel seized her by the feet and cast her headlong into the water] [121] [They went again before the king] [125] [His brothers continued to be helpers in the stable as long as they lived] [128] [The German Fairy] [128] [On one of the branches sat a little child] [129] [Lingering behind to drop one pebble after another along the road] [131] [I will eat off the roof for my share] [135] [Fastened him up in a coop] [137] [Tailpiece] [142] [Robin Starveling] [143] [Mick found that he hadn’t enough half to pay the rent] [144] [“Here take the bottle”] [148] [Mick went home muttering prayers and holding fast the bottle] [149] [In a moment the landlord was tumbled on the floor, and all were roaring and sprawling and shrieking] [153] [In jumped the men into the new bottle] [156] [The French Fay] [156] [“Welcome! what would you ask of me?”] [157] [Fretillon started barking at them] [168] [Fretillon] [177] [The Norwegian Dwarf] [178] [Away they went] [179] [He lets them loose] [182] [The bear would throw him in the air] [187] [The elf was one moment on the bear’s back] [191] [The second German Fairy] [192] [She set off on her journey] [193] [Falada, Falada, there thou hangest] [197] [Tailpiece] [201] [The fairy sat down again] [202] [He was found to abide spellbound] [203] [He came to a room where a beautiful lady sat upon a couch] [208-9] [The friendly dwarf with the sugarloaf hat] [214] [The dwarf from Sweden] [214] [Niels wandered forth] [215] [See here is a hammer] [217] [The blade struck him in the face] [222] [The Norwegian Fairy] [222] [The three little crones] [223] [Mother Bigfoot] [228] [The Queen was so enraged that her eyes flashed fury] [229] [Nymphidia] [231] [Round about, round about, in a fine ring-a] [232] [Bottom] [233] [He took the glass and drained it] [234] [Billy found himself sitting on horseback the wrong way] [237] [Billy danced the Rinka] [241] [The Danish Elf] [242] [Some lizards were running in and out of the clefts in an old tree] [243] [Preserve us how nimble they were on their legs] [249] [“I like the boys better,” said the earthworm] [252] [The French Fay] [253] [It was doubted whether his form were really human] [254] [There came forth a band of cooks] [259] [Tailpiece] [263] [The French Fay] [264] [The cap of roses] [265] [Placing the queen on her back she carried her to her cave] [268] [A little princess had been born to her] [275] [The audience] [280-1] [A dragon half a league long coming through the air] [293] [Tailpiece] [296] [The Scandinavian Dwarf] [297] [Thou art pale about the nose] [298] [Allwise the dwarf and Thor] [301] [The dwarf was suddenly turned into a figure of stone] [304] [Quick] [304] [She held it up to the woman] [305] [How is this my daughter] [307] [Tailpiece] [309] [Pink] [310] [They put the cake into the oven] [312] [St Dolly slept on a flour sack] [313] [Tailpiece] [313] [Seated himself firmly on the stool] [314] [He ran away with it] [315] [Tailpiece] [318] [John understood too well the nature of his crop] [319] [The dwarf from the North] [321] [What should he see but a big white bear] [322] [He was so worn out he had to rest many days before he could get home again] [331] [Queen Titania] [335] [But when a bad child goes to bed] [336] [And from the moon she flutters down] [337] [Tailpiece] [338] [Tailpiece] [339]
The Reign of King Oberon In all the annals of Fairyland nothing is more wonderful—and the annals are found in many hundreds of volumes—than that chapter which tells of the reign of the true fairy King Oberon and his beautiful wife Titania, who is sometimes called Queen Mab. Marvellous are the doings of Oberon’s little subjects in every land—good fairies and bad fairies, dwarfs, elves and sprites, brownies, pixies and gnomes, pucks, trolls and kobolds and Robin Goodfellow—and marvellous are the tales which have been told of them by travellers in the fairy realms.
