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  THE

  GREY FAIRY BOOK




[Illustration: The Dervish drowning the Pigs]




  THE

  Grey Fairy Book

  EDITED BY

  ANDREW LANG

  [Illustration: The Goblin Pony]

  _WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS BY H. J. FORD_


  LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.
  91 AND 93 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK
  LONDON AND BOMBAY
  1905

  All rights reserved




  Copyright 1900
  by
  Longmans, Green, and Co.

  First Edition, October 1900.
  Reprinted, September, 1901.
  Reprinted, August, 1905.

  University Press
  John Wilson and Son, Cambridge, U.S.A.




  _PREFACE_


The tales in the Grey Fairy Book are derived from many
countries--Lithuania, various parts of Africa, Germany, France, Greece,
and other regions of the world. They have been translated and adapted by
Mrs. Dent, Mrs. Lang, Miss Eleanor Sellar, Miss Blackley, and Miss Lang.
'The Three Sons of Hali' is from the last century 'Cabinet des Fees,' a
very large collection. The French author may have had some Oriental
original before him in parts; at all events he copied the Eastern method
of putting tale within tale, like the Eastern balls of carved ivory. The
stories, as usual, illustrate the method of popular fiction. A certain
number of incidents are shaken into many varying combinations, like the
fragments of  glass in the kaleidoscope. Probably the possible
combinations, like possible musical combinations, are not unlimited in
number, but children may be less sensitive in the matter of fairies than
Mr. John Stuart Mill was as regards music.




  _CONTENTS_


                                                     PAGE

  _Donkey Skin_                                         1

  _The Goblin Pony_                                    16

  _An Impossible Enchantment_                          19

  _The Story of Dschemil and Dschemila_                38

  _Janni and the Draken_                               61

  _The Partnership of the Thief and the Liar_          67

  _Fortunatus and his Purse_                           74

  _The Goat-faced Girl_                                84

  _What came of picking Flowers_                       93

  _The Story of Bensurdatu_                           103

  _The Magician's Horse_                              116

  _The Little Gray Man_                               129

  _Herr Lazarus and the Draken_                       136

  _The Story of the Queen of the Flowery Isles_       141

  _Udea and her Seven Brothers_                       153

  _The White Wolf_                                    168

  _Mohammed with the Magic Finger_                    178

  _Bobino_                                            197

  _The Dog and the Sparrow_                           205

  _The Story of the Three Sons of Hali_               210

  _The Story of the Fair Circassians_                 245

  _The Jackal and the Spring_                         265

  _The Bear_                                          269

  _The Sunchild_                                      275

  _The Daughter of Buk Ettemsuch_                     280

  _Laughing Eye and Weeping Eye, or the Limping Fox_  293

  _The Unlooked-for Prince_                           300

  _The Simpleton_                                     309

  _The Street Musicians_                              317

  _The Twin Brothers_                                 322

  _Cannetella_                                        332

  _The Ogre_                                          344

  _A Fairy's Blunder_                                 353

  _Long, Broad, and Quickeye_                         366

  _Prunella_                                          382




  _ILLUSTRATIONS_

  _PLATES_

  _The Dervish drowning the Pigs                     Frontispiece_

  _The Fairy, the Princess, and the Donkey's Skin    to face p._ 4

  _The King sees Princess Mutinosa out Hunting_           "     20

  _The Fairy-car arrives_                                 "     34

  _Dschemila outwits the Ogre_                            "     46

  _Dschem