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FAIRY RING

    KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN
    NORA ARCHIBALD SMITH




_The Fairy Ring_




THE CHILDREN'S CRIMSON CLASSICS


EDITED BY KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN AND NORA ARCHIBALD SMITH

    GOLDEN NUMBERS
    A Book of Verse for Youth

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    A Book of Verse for Children

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    _Library of Fairy Literature_

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    A Second Fairy Book

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    A Third Fairy Book

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    A Fourth Fairy Book

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    _OTHER VOLUMES TO FOLLOW_

[Illustration: LITTLE BROTHER AND SISTER]





CRIMSON CLASSICS

THE FAIRY RING

EDITED BY KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN and NORA ARCHIBALD SMITH


[Illustration]

    ILLUSTRATED BY ELIZABETH MACKINSTRY


    DOUBLEDAY, DORAN & COMPANY, INC.
    GARDEN CITY  1934  NEW YORK




    _Copyright, 1906, by_
    MCCLURE, PHILLIPS & CO.

    COPYRIGHT, 1910, BY
    DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY

    PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES
    AT
    THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS, GARDEN CITY, N. Y.




_Messrs. McClure, Phillips & Company wish to make acknowledgment of
their indebtedness to the following publishers:_

_Little, Brown & Company, for permission to use "Blanche and Vermilion"
and "Prince Desire and Princess Mignonette" from Old-Fashioned Fairy
Tales;_

_A. Wessells Company, for permission to use the story of "The Clever
Prince" from Fairy Tales from Afar;_

_American Book Company, for permission to use "Drakesbill and His
Friends" from Fairy Tales and Fables;_

_University Publishing Company, for permission to use "The Troll's
Hammer" from Fairy Life;_

_Harper & Brothers, for permission to use "The Fair One with Golden
Locks," "The White Cat," "Prince Cherry," and "The Frog Prince" from
Miss Mulock's Fairy Book, and "Yvon and Finette," "The Twelve Months,"
and "The Story of Coquerico" from Laboulaye's Fairy Tales of all
Nations;_

_G. P. Putnam's Sons, for permission to use "History of Tom Thumb" and
"Tattercoats" from Joseph Jacobs's English Fairy Tales; "Munachar and
Manachar" from Joseph Jacobs's Celtic Fairy Tales; and "Master Tobacco,"
"Mother Roundabout's Daughter," and "The Sheep and the Pig" from
Dasent's Tales from the Field;_

_F. A. Stokes Company, for permission to use "Lars, My Lad," and
"Twigmuntus and Cowbelliantus" from Fairy Tales from the Swedish;_

_Longmans, Green & Company, for permission to use the following
stories: "The Yellow Dwarf," "The Many-Furred Creature," "Spindle,
Shuttle, and Needle," "Princess and the Glass Hill," "The Golden Crab,"
"The Magic Ring," "Snow-white and Rose-red," "Graciosa and Percinet,"
"The Iron Stove," "The Good Little Mouse," and "The Three Feathers" from
the Andrew Lang Fairy Books._

_We also wish to express our thanks to Mr. Seumas MacManus, for
permission to use "The Bee, the Harp, and the Bum-Clock," "The Long
Leather Bag," and "The Widow's Daughter" from his books, Donegal Fairy
Tales and In Chimney Corners, published by us._




_CONTENTS_


  SCANDINAVIAN
                                                       PAGE
  EAST O' THE SUN AND WEST O' THE MOON                    3
  THE GOLDEN LANTERN, GOLDEN GOAT, AND GOLDEN CLOAK      13
  MOTHER ROUNDABOUT'S DAUGHTER                           21
  THE BEAR AND SKRATTEL                                  28
  THE GOLDEN BIRD                                        37
  THE DOLL IN THE GRASS                                  45
  THE PRINCESS ON THE GLASS HILL                         47
  THE RAM AND THE PIG WHO WENT INTO THE WOODS
        TO LIVE BY THEMSELVES                            56
  THE TROLL'S HAMMER                                     60
  THE CLEVER PRINCE                                      65
  "LARS, MY LAD!"                                        70
  TWIGMUNTUS, COWBELLIANTUS, PERCHNOSIUS                 85

  ENGLISH
  MASTER TOBACCO                                         89
  THE HISTORY OF TOM THUMB                               95
  TATTERCOATS                                           101
  HISTORY OF JACK THE GIANT-KILLER                      104

  FRENCH
  YVON AND FINETTE                                      109
  THE FAIR ONE WITH GOLDEN LOCKS                        138
  THE LITTLE GOOD MOUSE                                 148
  THE STORY OF BLANCHE AND VERMILION                    161
  PRINCE DESIRE AND PRINCESS MIGNONETTA                 165
  THE YELLOW DWARF                                      171
  GRACIOSA AND PERCINET                                 179
  DRAK, THE FAIRY                                       197
  DRAKESBILL AND HIS FRIENDS                            202
  RIQUET WITH THE TUFT                                  209
  THE WHITE CAT                                         216
  PRINCE CHERRY                                         229
  THE TWELVE MONTHS                                     264

  SPANISH
  THE STORY OF COQUERICO                                254
  THE BIRD-CAGE MAKER                                   259

  GAELIC
  THE BEE, THE HARP, THE MOUSE, AND THE BUM-CLOCK       271
  THE LONG LEATHER BAG                                  279
  THE WIDOW'S DAUGHTER                                  288
  MUNACHAR AND MANACHAR                                 292

  GERMAN
  THE WILD SWANS                                        238
  THE ROAD TO FORTUNE                                   295
  THE GOLDEN CRAB                                       301
  THE TABLE, THE ASS, AND THE STICK                     307
  THE LITTLE BROTHER AND SISTER                         318
  THE OLD GRIFFIN                                       324
  THE THREE FEATHERS                                    330
  THE HOUSE IN THE WOOD                                 334
  RAPUNZEL                                              339
  THE QUEEN BEE                                         343
  THE MANY-FURRED CREATURE                              345
  SNOW-WHITE AND ROSE-RED                               350
  THE FROG PRINCE                                       357
  THE GOOSE GIRL                                        361
  BRIAR ROSE                                            367
  THE IRON STOVE                                        370
  RUMPEL-STILTS-KEN                                     376
  FAITHFUL JOHN, THE KING'S SERVANT                     379
  SPINDLE, SHUTTLE, AND NEEDLE                          386

  RUSSIAN
  THE MAGIC EGG                                         390
  THE SPARROW AND THE BUSH                              402
  THE IRON WOLF                                         404

  EAST INDIAN
  THE GRATEFUL COBRA                                    408
  THE MAGIC RING                                        413
  TIT FOR TAT                                           426
  THE BRAHMAN, THE TIGER, AND THE SIX JUDGES            427
  MUCHIE LAL                                            431
  THE VALIANT CHATTEEMAKER                              439



_ILLUSTRATIONS_


  LITTLE BROTHER AND SISTER                        _Frontispiece_
                                                         FACING
                                                          PAGE
  THE LASSIE RIDING OVER THE SEA ON THE BACK OF
        THE NORTH WIND                                     10
  THE TROLL'S HUT, THE LANTERN, AND THE GOAT WITH
        THE GOLDEN HORNS                                   14
  "SHE SAID SHE WOULD SIT AND DRIVE IN A SILVER
        SPOON"                                             46
  JUST AS CINDERLAD TURNED HIS HORSE AROUND, THE
        PRINCESS THREW THE GOLDEN APPLE                    52
  "AND WHEN HE SET HER DOWN HE GAVE HER A KISS"            90
  TATTERCOATS FORGOT ALL HER TROUBLES AND FELL TO
        DANCING                                           102
  "THE GIANT AND THE CONJURER NOW KNEW THAT THEIR
        WICKED COURSE WAS AT AN END"                      108
  "HE FLUNG HUGE MASSES OF ROCK AFTER THE VESSEL"         122
  "SHE WORE THEM ALWAYS...LOOSE AND FLOWING"              138
  "I FEEL AS IF I WERE THE DAUGHTER OF SOME GREAT
        KING"                                             158
  "HE WAS A WEEK TRYING TO TREAD ON THIS FATAL TAIL"      166
  THE MERMAID TAKING THE KING OF THE GOLDEN MINES TO
        THE STEEL CASTLE                                  178
  "MICHEAL, PETRIFIED, STOOD MUTE,... CONTEMPLATING
        WITH A FRIGHTENED AIR THIS INCONGRUOUS DANCE"     200
  "ELIZA WENT, AND THE KING AND THE ARCHBISHOP FOLLOWED
        HER"                                              252
  "MARCH ROSE IN TURN, AND STIRRED THE FIRE WITH THE
        STAFF, WHEN BEHOLD!... IT WAS SPRING"          266
  "AN UGLY OLD WOMAN WITH THE MOST MONSTROUS NOSE EVER
        BEHELD"                                           292
  "IN THIS WAY THE FISHERMAN CARRIED HIM TO THE CASTLE"   304
  "IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT, WHEN GRIFFIN WAS SNORING
        AWAY LUSTILY, JACK REACHED UP AND PULLED A
        FEATHER OUT OF HIS TAIL"                          328
  "THEN DUMMLING'S LOVELY MAIDEN SPRANG LIGHTLY AND
        GRACEFULLY THROUGH THE RING"                      332
  ""WHAT ARE YOU STANDING THERE GAPING FOR?" SCREAMED
        THE DWARF"                                        356
  "FALADA, FALADA, THERE THOU HANGEST!"                   364
  "AT LAST HE REACHED THE TOWER... WHERE BRIER ROSE
        WAS ASLEEP"                                       370
  "JUST AS IT HAD COME TO THE END OF THE GOLDEN THREAD
        IT REACHED THE KING'S SON"                        388
  "THE RANEE SAID, 'THIS IS A DEAR LITTLE GIRL'"          434


    Throned on a grassy knoll, I watch
      The elfin host come trooping by,
    And hear the whir of fairy wings,
      The goblin voices, shrill and high.
    Behind them glides a magic train
      Of Kings and Princes, armor-clad,
    And serving as their squires bold
      Boots, Ashiepattle, Cinderlad.
    With silken rustle, flash of gem,
      Queen and Czaritsa sweep along,
    While red-capped Troll and rainbow Sprite
      Peep out amid the enchanted throng.

        _Ting-ling, ting-ling, how sweet the ring,
          Like golden bells, of fairy laughter;
        Rap-tap, rap-tap, how sharp the clap
          Of fairy footfalls following after!_

    Where witch-grass grows and fern-seed lies,
      A Fairy Ring is dimly seen;
    And there a glitt'ring host is met
      To dance upon the moonlit green.
    Riquet, the Tufted, lightly turns
      The Fair One with the Golden Hair;
    And Prince Desire and Mignonette
      Form yet another graceful pair.
    Tall as a tower stands Galifron;
      The Desert Fay, with snakes bedight,
    First pirouettes with him and then
      With wee Tom Thumb, King Arthur's Knight.

        _Ting-ling, ting-ling, how sweet the ring,
          Like golden bells, of fairy laughter;
        Rap-tap, rap-tap, how sharp the clap
          Of fairy footfalls following after!_

    Sweet, unseen harpers harp and sing,
      Faint elfin horns the air repeat;
    Rapunzel shakes her shining braids