English Fairy Tales

Joseph Jacobs EARL MAR’S DAUGHTER ONE FINE SUMMER’S DAY Earl Mar’s daughter went into the castle garden, dancing and tripping al ...

English Fairy Tales them as bonny as bonny could be. But as each son was born Prince Florentine carried the little thing away on ...

Joseph Jacobs flew till they swooped down on Earl Mar’s castle just as the wedding party were setting out for the church. First ...

English Fairy Tales MR. MIACCA TOMMY GRIMES was sometimes a good boy, and sometimes a bad boy; and when he was a bad boy, he was ...

Joseph Jacobs When he got him there, Mr. Miacca dropped him out; and when he saw him, he said: “Ah, you’re the youngster what se ...

English Fairy Tales had no father or mother, and saw by his ragged clothes that he could not be worse off than he was, he told h ...

Joseph Jacobs you will like a sousing of some dish-water; I have some here hot enough to make you jump.” Just at that time Mr. F ...

English Fairy Tales was the custom that all his servants should have some chance for good fortune as well as himself, he called ...

Joseph Jacobs be a man! Well, I will go back, and think nothing of the cuffing and scolding of the old cook, if I am to be Lord ...

English Fairy Tales but to oblige your majesty, I will fetch her.” “Run, run!” said the queen; “I am impatient to see the dear c ...

Joseph Jacobs present that the king and queen had sent for her to poor Dick. As soon as the merchant heard this, he called out t ...

English Fairy Tales After this Mr. Fitzwarren advised him to send for a proper tailor and get himself dressed like a gentleman; ...

Joseph Jacobs THE STRANGE VISITOR A WOMAN WA S SITTING at her reel one night; And still she sat, and still she reeled, and still ...

English Fairy Tales And still she sat, and still she reeled, and still she wished for company. In came a huge huge head, and sat ...

Joseph Jacobs THE LAIDLY WORM OF SPINDLESTON HEUGH IN BAMBOROUGH CASTLE once lived a king who had a fair wife and two children, ...

English Fairy Tales a Laidly Worm. And when her maidens came in to dress her in the morning they found coiled up on the bed a dr ...

Joseph Jacobs As the ship came near, the Worm unfolded its coils, and dipping into the sea, caught hold of the ship of Childe Wy ...

English Fairy Tales he saw her, he touched her with a twig of a rowan tree. No sooner had he touched her than she shrivelled up ...

Joseph Jacobs cow may give me milk, that I may give cat milk, that cat may give me my own tail again.” “No,” says the farmer, “I ...

English Fairy Tales THE FISH AND THE RING ONCE UPON A TIME, there was a mighty baron in the North Countrie who was a great magic ...