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      The Grey Fairy Book

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4057664647009

Table of Contents

       Preface

       Donkey Skin

       The Goblin Pony

       An Impossible Enchantment

       The Story Of Dschemil and Dschemila

       Janni and the Draken

       The Partnership of the Thief and the Liar.

       Fortunatus and His Purse

       The Goat-faced Girl

       What Came of Picking Flowers

       The Story of Bensurdatu

       The Magician’s Horse

       The Little Gray Man

       Herr Lazarus and the Draken

       The Story of the Queen of the Flowery Isles

       Udea and Her Seven Brothers

       The White Wolf

       Mohammed with the Magic Finger

       Bobino

       The Dog and the Sparrow

       The Story of the Three Sons of Hali

       The Story of the Fair Circassians

       The Jackal and the Spring

       The Bear

       The Sunchild

       The Daughter Of Buk Ettemsuch

       Laughing Eye and Weeping Eye, or the Limping Fox

       (Servian Story)

       The Unlooked-for Prince

       (Polish Story)

       The Simpleton

       The Street Musicians

       The Twin Brothers

       Cannetella

       The Ogre

       A Fairy’s Blunder

       Long, Broad, and Quickeye

       (A Bohemian Story)

       Prunella

Preface

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      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 hang. ‘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 coloured 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.

Donkey Skin

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      There was once upon a time a king who was so much beloved by his subjects that he thought himself the happiest monarch in the whole world, and he had everything his heart could desire. His palace was filled with the rarest of curiosities, and his gardens with the sweetest flowers, while in the marble stalls of his stables stood a row of milk-white Arabs, with big brown eyes.

      Strangers who had heard of the marvels which the king had collected, and made long journeys to see them, were, however, surprised to find the most splendid stall of all occupied by a donkey, with particularly large and drooping ears. It was a very fine donkey; but still, as far as they could tell, nothing so very remarkable as to account for the care with which