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                               EUROPA'S

                             FAIRY TALES



            "_Do tell us a fairy tale, ganpa._"

            "_Well, will you be good and quiet if I do?_"

            "_Of course we will; we are always good when you are telling
             us fairy tales._"

            "_Well, here goes.--Once upon a time, though it wasn't in my
                time, and it wasn't in your time, and it wasn't in anybody
                else's time, there was a----_"

            "_But that would be no time at all._"

            "_That's fairy tale time._"

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[Illustration: _The Marshal tells how he killed the Dragon_]


EUROPA'S

FAIRY BOOK



RESTORED AND RETOLD BY

JOSEPH JACOBS



DONE INTO PICTURES BY

JOHN D. BATTEN



G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS

NEW YORK AND LONDON

The Knickerbocker Press




COPYRIGHT, 1916

BY

JOSEPH JACOBS

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To

PEGGY, AND MADGE, AND PEARL, AND MAGGIE,
AND MARGUERITE, AND PEGGOTTY, AND MEG,
AND MARJORY, AND DAISY, AND PEGG, AND

MARGARET HAYS

(How many granddaughters does that make?)


MY DEAR LITTLE PEGGY:--

Many, many, many years ago I wrote a book for your Mummey--when