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 BOYS AND GIRLS BOOKSHELF

     _A Practical Plan of Character Building_

          COMPLETE IN SEVENTEEN VOLUMES

 I     Fun and Thought for Little Folk
 II    Folk-Lore, Fables, and Fairy Tales
 III   Famous Tales and Nature Stories
 IV    Things to Make and Things to Do
 V     True Stories from Every Land
 VI    Famous Songs and Picture Stories
 VII   Nature and Outdoor Life, Part I
 VIII  Nature and Outdoor Life, Part II
 IX    Earth, Sea, and Sky
 X     Games and Handicraft
 XI    Wonders of Invention
 XII   Marvels of Industry
 XIII  Every Land and its Story
 XIV   Famous Men and Women
 XV    Bookland--Story and Verse, Part I
 XVI   Bookland--Story and Verse, Part II
 XVII  Graded and Classified Index


             THE UNIVERSITY SOCIETY
                  INCORPORATED
                   _New York_




 [Illustration: THE SUNSET FAIRIES
 FROM A DRAWING BY FLORENCE MARY ANDERSON]




                 BOYS AND GIRLS
                    BOOKSHELF

     _A Practical Plan of Character Building_

              Little Folks' Section

  [Illustration: INSTRUCTIVE PLAY... VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE
                 The Four Fold Life
                 MENTAL  PHYSICAL  SOCIAL  MORAL]

        Prepared Under the Supervision of
  THE EDITORIAL BOARD _of the_ UNIVERSITY SOCIETY

                   Volume II
       FOLK-LORE, FABLES, AND FAIRY TALES

             THE UNIVERSITY SOCIETY
                  INCORPORATED
                   _New York_




              Copyright, 1920, By
          THE UNIVERSITY SOCIETY INC.

           Copyright, 1912, 1915, By
          THE UNIVERSITY SOCIETY INC.


        _Manufactured in the U. S. A._




INTRODUCTION


This volume is devoted to a choice collection of the standard and
new fairy-tales, wonder stories, and fables. They speak so truly and
convincingly for themselves that we wish to use this introductory page
only to emphasize their value to young children. There are still those
who find no room in their own reading, and would give none in the
reading of the young, except for facts. They confuse facts and truth,
and forget that there is a world of truth that is larger than the mere
facts of life, being compact of imagination and vision and ideals. Dr.
Hamilton Wright Mabie convinced us of this in his cogent words.

"America," he said, "has at present greater facility in producing
'smart' men than in producing able men; the alert, quick-witted
money-maker abounds, but the men who live with ideas, who care for the
principles of things, and who make life rich in resource and interest,
are comparatively few. America needs poetry more than it needs
industrial training, though the two ought never to be separated. The
time to awaken the imagination, which is the creative faculty, is early
childhood, and the most accessible material for this education is the
literature which the race created in its childhood."

The value of the fairy-tale and the wonder-tale is that they tell about
the magic of living. Like the old woman in Mother Goose, they "brush
the cobwebs out of the sky." They enrich, not cheapen, life. Plenty of
things do cheapen life for children. Most movies do. Sunday comic
supplements do. Ragtime songs do. Mere gossip does. But fairy stories
enhance life.

They are called "folk-tales," that is, tales of the common folk. They
were largely the dreams of the poor. They consist of fancies that have
illumined the hard facts of life. They find animals, trees, flowers,
and the stars friendly. They speak of victory. In them the child is
master even of dragons. He can live like a prince, in disguise, or,
if he be uncomely, he may hope to win Beauty after he is free of his
masquerade.

Wonder-stories help make good children as well as happy children.
In these stories witches, wolves, and evil persons are defeated or
exposed. Fairy godmothers are ministers of justice. The side that the
child wishes to triumph always does triumph, and so goodness always is
made to seem worth-while.

Almost every fairy-tale contains a test of character or shrewdness or
courage. Sharp distinctions are made, that require a child of parts to
discern.

And the heroes of these nursery tales are much more convincing than
precepts or golden texts, for they impress upon the child not merely
what he ought to do, but what nobly has been done. And the small
hero-worshiper will follow where his admirations lead.

Fables do much the same, and by imagining that the animals have arrived
at human speech and wisdom, they help the child to think shrewdly and
in a friendly way, as if in comradeship with his pets and with our
brothers and sisters, the beasts of the field and forest.


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 CONTENTS
                                                  PAGE

 INTRODUCTION                                      vii


 #THE OLD FAIRY TALES#

  THE ROAD TO FAIRY LAND                             2
    By Cecil Cavendish
  THE BEAUTIFUL PRINCESS GOLDENLOCKS                 3
  PRINCE HYACINTH AND THE DEAR LITTLE PRINCESS       7
    By Madame Leprince De Beaumont
  CINDERELLA                                        10
    By Charles Perrault
  THE SLEEPING BEAUTY                               13
    Adapted from the Brothers Grimm
  BEAUTY AND THE BEAST                              15
  PRINCE DARLING                                    20
  RUMPELSTILTSKIN                                   26
    Adapted from the Grimm Brothers
  RAPUNZELL, OR THE FAIR MAID WITH GOLDEN HAIR      28
    By the Brothers Grimm
  SNOW-WHITE AND ROSE-RED                           30
    By the Brothers Grimm
  HANSEL AND GRETHEL                                34
    By the Brothers Grimm


 #STORIES BY FAVORITE AMERICAN WRITERS#

  THE FLAG-BEARER                                   39
    By Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
  JOHNNY CHUCK FINDS THE BEST THING IN THE WORLD    40
    By Thornton W. Burgess
  LITTLE WEE PUMPKIN'S THANKSGIVING                 41
    By Madge A. Bingham
  THE COMING OF THE KING                            42
    By Laura E. Richards
  THE LITTLE PIG                                    44
    By Maud Lindsay
  THE TRAVELS OF THE LITTLE TOY SOLDIER             44
    By Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
  WHAT HAPPENED TO DUMPS                            45
    By Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
  THE WRECK OF THE HESPERUS                         47
    By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  BALLAD OF THE LITTLE PAGE                         48
    By Abbie Farwell Brown
  THE SNOW-IMAGE                                    51
    By Nathaniel Hawthorne
  THE CASTLE OF GEMS                                55
    By Sophie May
  THE HEN THAT HATCHED DUCKS                        58
    By Harriet Beecher Stowe
  THE BALLAD OF PIPING WILL                         63
    By Anna Hempstead Branch
  LITTLE ANNIE'S DREAM, OR THE FAIRY FLOWER         68
    By Louisa M. Alcott
  COMPANIONS                                        71
    By Helen Hunt Jackson
  PRINCE LITTLE BOY                                 73
    By S. Weir Mitchell, M.D.
  THE BEE-MAN OF ORN                                77
    By Frank R. Stockton
  THE POT OF GOLD                                   82
    By Mary E. Wilkins Freeman


 #VERSES ABOUT FAIRIES#

  THE FAIRY THORN                                   87
    By Samuel Ferguson
  FAIRY DAYS                                        88
    By William Makepeace Thackeray
  THE FAIRY QUEEN                                   89
  THE SEA PRINCESS                                  89
  LONG AGO                                          89
  THISTLE-TASSEL                                    90
    By Florence Harrison
  SONG OF THE FAIRY                                 90
    By William Shakespeare
  THE FAIRIES                                       92
    By William Allingham
  OH, WHERE DO FAIRIES HIDE THEIR HEADS?            92
    By Thomas Haynes Bayly


 #MODERN FAIRY TALES#

  THE ELF OF THE WOODLANDS                          93
    Retold from Richard Hengist Horne by
    William Byron Forbush
  PRINCESS FINOLA AND THE DWARF                     95
    By Edmund Leamy
  THE STRAW OX                                      100
  THE LITTLE PRINCESS OF THE FEARLESS HEART         103
    By B. J. Daskam
  MOPSA THE FAIRY                                   110
    Retold from Jean Ingelow
  THE LINE OF GOLDEN LIGHT, OR THE LITTLE BLIND
      SISTER                                        114
    By Elizabeth Harrison
  A FAIRY STORY ABOUT A PHILOSOPHER'S STONE WHICH
      WAS LOST                                      118
    By M. Bowley
  THE BAD TEMPER OF THE PRINCESS                    124
    By Marian Burton
  THE FLYING SHIP                                   130
  ROBIN OF THE LOVING HEART                         133
    By Emma Endicott Marean
  IN SPRING                                         137
  A FAMOUS CASE                                     138
    By Theodore C. Williams


 #OLD-FASHIONED STORIES#

  THE TWELVE HUNTSMEN                               139
  THE TWELVE DANCING PRINCESSES                     140
  EDWY AND THE ECHO                                 143
  THE LITTLE OLD WOMAN WHO LIVED IN A
      VINEGAR-BOTTLE                                146
  THE SNOW QUEEN                                    148
  THE MASTER-MAID                                   158
  CAP O' RUSHES                                     163
  FULFILLED                                         165
  KING GRISLY-BEARD                                 166
    Retold from the Brothers Grimm


 #FABLES#

  THE FOX AND THE GOAT                              172
  THE TWO FROGS                                     172
  THE DOG IN THE MANGER                             172
  THE STAG AT THE POOL                              172
  THE WAR-HORSE AND THE ASS                         172
  THE FROGS WHO WANTED A KING                       172
  THE OX AND THE FROG                               173
  THE HERON WHO WAS HARD TO PLEASE                  174
  THE SHEPHERD BOY AND THE WOLF                     175
  THE ASS, THE COCK, AND THE LION                   175
  THE LION, THE BEAR, AND THE FOX                   175
  THE HORSE AND THE STAG                            175
  THE LION AND THE BOAR                             175
  THE HUNTSMAN AND THE FISHERMAN                    175
  THE ASS IN THE LION'S SKIN                        176
  THE HARE AND THE TORTOISE                         177
  THE FOX AND THE WOOD-CUTTER                       178
  THE LION AND OTHER BEASTS ON A HUNT               178
  THE EAGLE AND THE ARROW                           178
  THE MOUSE AND THE FROG                            178
  THE WOLF AND THE GOAT                             178
  THE BAD DOG                                       178
  THE KID AND THE WOLF                              178
  THE FOX AND THE GRAPES                            179
  THE FOX AND THE RAVEN                             180
  THE BULL AND THE GOAT                             181
  THE RAVEN AND THE SWAN                            181
  THE THIEF AND THE DOG                             181
  THE HORSE AND THE LOADED ASS                      181
  THE ASS WITH THE SALT                             181
  THE COCK AND THE JEWEL                            181
  THE FOX WHO HAD LOST HIS TAIL                     181
  THE EAGLE AND THE JACKDAW                         182
  THE HEN AND THE GOLDEN EGGS                       183
  THE DOG AND THE ASS                               184
  THE NORTH WIND AND THE SUN                        184
  THE FOX AND THE LION                              184
  THE CROW AND THE PITCHER                          184
  THE ASS AND HIS SHADOW                            184
  THE WOLF AND THE CRANE                            184
  THE FOX AND THE CRANE                             185
  THE CAT AND THE MONKEY                            186
  THE DANCING MONKEYS                               187
  THE HARES AND THE FROGS                           187
  THE LION AND THE GNAT                             187
  THE FROGS AND THE BULLS                           187
  THE LARK AND HER YOUNG ONES                       187
  BELLING THE CAT                                   187
  A MILLER, HIS SON, AND THEIR ASS                  188
  THE TORTOISE AND THE EAGLE                        190
  THE PEACOCK AND JUNO                              190
  THE LION, THE FOX, AND THE ASS                    190
  THE FATHER AND HIS SONS                           190
  THE DOVE AND THE ANT                              191
  THE FOX AND THE CAT                               192
  THE ANTS AND THE GRASSHOPPER                      193


 #FABLES FROM INDIA#
  Adapted by Ramaswami Raju

  THE GLOW-WORM AND THE DAW                         194
  THE FOX AND THE VILLAGERS                         194
  THE FROG AND THE SNAKE                            194
  THE ASSEMBLY OF ANIMALS                           194
  THE COCK AND HIS THREE HENS                       194
  THE BLACK DOG AND THE WHITE DOG                   195
  THE ELEPHANT AND THE APE                          195
  THE CROW AND THE DAWN                             195
  THE LION AND THE GOAT                             195
  THE SUNLING                                       196
  THE MUSHROOM AND THE GOOSE                        196
  THE FABLES OF PILPAY THE HINDU                    196
  THE FOX AND THE HEN                               196
  THE THREE FISHES                                  196
  THE FALCON AND THE HEN                            197
  THE KING WHO GREW KIND                            197


 #MODERN FABLES#

  THE HORSES' COUNCIL                               197
    Adapted from John Gay
  THE OAK AND THE REED                              198
    Adapted from the French of La Fontaine
  THE ADVANTAGE OF KNOWLEDGE                        198
    Adapted from the French of La Fontaine
  THE TORRENT AND THE RIVER                         198
    Adapted from the French of La Fontaine
  THE TOMTIT AND THE BEAR                           199
    By the Brothers Grimm
  WHY JIMMY SKUNK WEARS STRIPES                     200
    By Thornton W. Burgess
  HOW CATS CAME TO PURR                             202
    By John Bennett


 #STORIES FROM SCANDINAVIA#

  THE GREEDY CAT                                    207
  GUDBRAND ON THE HILLSIDE                          210
  PORK AND HONEY                                    212
  HOW REYNARD OUTWITTED BRUIN                       212
  THE COCK AND THE CRESTED HEN                      213
  THE OLD WOMAN AND THE TRAMP                       213
  THE OLD WOMAN AND THE FISH                        216
  THE LAD AND THE FOX                               217
  ADVENTURES OF ASHPOT                              217
  NORWEGIAN BIRD-LEGENDS                            219
  THE UGLY DUCKLING                                 222
    By Hans Christian Andersen
  THE WILD SWANS                                    227
    By Hans Christian Andersen
  TAPER TOM                                         235
  THE BOY WHO WENT TO THE NORTH WIND                236
  THE WONDERFUL IRON POT                            238
  THE SHEEP AND PIG WHO SET UP HOUSEKEEPING         239
  DOLL-IN-THE-GRASS                                 241
  BOOTS AND HIS BROTHERS                            242
  VIGGO AND BEATE                                   244
    Translated by Mrs. Gudrun Thorne-Thompson


 #STORIES FROM IRELAND#

  THE FOUR WHITE SWANS                              251
  THE MISHAPS OF HANDY ANDY                         258
  THE GREEDY SHEPHERD                               263
  THE COBBLERS AND THE CUCKOO                       264
  THE MERRY COBBLER AND HIS COAT                    268
  THE STORY OF CHILD CHARITY                        270
    By Frances Browne
  THE SELFISH GIANT                                 272
    By Oscar Wilde


 #STORIES FROM GREAT BRITAIN#

  THE BATTLE OF THE BIRDS, OR THE GRATEFUL
      RAVEN AND THE PRINCE                          275
  JACK AND THE BEANSTALK                            277
    Retold by Mary Lena Wilson
  TOM THUMB                                         280
    Retold by Laura Clarke
  WHITTINGTON AND HIS CAT                           283
  WILD ROBIN                                        287
    Retold by Sophie May
  THE STORY OF MERLIN                               291


 #JAPANESE AND OTHER ORIENTAL TALES#

  THE CUB'S TRIUMPH                                 293
  CHIN-CHIN KOBAKAMA                                294
  THE WONDERFUL MALLET                              296
  THE SELFISH SPARROW AND THE HOUSELESS CROWS       298
  THE STORY OF ZIRAC                                298
  MY LORD BAG OF RICE                               302
  THE LITTLE HARE OF OKI                            305
    Retold by B. M. Burrell
  THE LITTLE BROTHER OF LOO-LEE LOO                 309
    By Margaret Johnson
  THE CURIOUS CASE OF AH-TOP                        314
  THE JACKAL AND THE CAMEL                          316
  HASHNU