English Fairy Tales

Flora Annie Steel

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• Publié le: 08 décembre 2010
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• Langue: English
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The Project Gutenberg eBook, English Fairy Tales, by Flora Annie Steel, Illustrated by Arthur Rackham This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: English Fairy Tales Author: Flora Annie Steel Release Date: November 9, 2005 [eBook #17034] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ENGLISH FAIRY TALES*** E-text prepared by Suzanne Shell, Janet Blenkinship, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net/) ENGLISH FAIRY TALES RETOLD BY FLORA ANNIE STEEL Illustrated by Arthur Rackham First published by Macmillan & Co. 1918 Mr. and Mrs. Vinegar at home (page 190.) CONTENTS ST. GEORGE OF MERRIE ENGLAND THE STORY OF THE THREE BEARS TOM-TIT-TOT THE GOLDEN SNUFF-BOX TATTERCOATS THE THREE FEATHERS LAZY JACK JACK THE GIANT-KILLER THE THREE SILLIES THE GOLDEN BALL THE TWO SISTERS THE LAIDLY WORM TITTY MOUSE AND TATTY MOUSE JACK AND THE BEANSTALK THE BLACK BULL OF NORROWAY CATSKIN THE THREE LITTLE PIGS NIX NAUGHT NOTHING MR. AND MRS. VINEGAR THE TRUE HISTORY OF SIR THOMAS THUMB HENNY-PENNY THE THREE HEADS OF THE WELL MR. FOX DICK WHITTINGTON AND HIS CAT THE OLD WOMAN AND HER PIG THE WEE BANNOCK HOW JACK WENT OUT TO SEEK HIS FORTUNE THE BOGEY-BEAST LITTLE RED RIDING-HOOD CHILDE ROWLAND THE WISE MEN OF GOTHAM CAPORUSHES THE BABES IN THE WOOD THE RED ETTIN THE FISH AND THE RING LAWKAMERCYME MASTER OF ALL MASTERS MOLLY WHUPPIE AND THE DOUBLE-FACED GIANT THE ASS, THE TABLE, AND THE STICK THE WELL OF THE WORLD'S END THE ROSE TREE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR Mr. and Mrs. Vinegar at home "Somebody has been at my porridge, and has eaten it all up!" Tattercoats dancing while the gooseherd pipes The giant Cormoran was the terror of all the country-side Taking the keys of the castle, Jack unlocked all the doors The giant Galligantua and the wicked old magician transform the duke's daughter into a white hind "Tree of mine! O Tree of mine! Have you seen my naughty little maid?" "Fee-fi-fo-fum, I smell the blood of an Englishman" She went along, and went along, and went along And that is the story of Mr. and Mrs. Vinegar They thanked her and said good-bye, and she went on her journey Many's the beating he had from the broomstick or the ladle When Puss saw the rats and mice she didn't wait to be told "Well!" she chuckled, "I am in luck!" She sate down and plaited herself an overall of rushes and a cap to match The fisherman and his wife had no children, and they were just longing for a baby Frontis 22 54 70 78 94 114 147 164 197 216 232 241 266 302 341 IN TEXT St. George of Merrie England When she came to St. George she started and laid her hand on her heart "Somebody has been lying in my bed,—and here she is!" "What is that you are singing, my good woman?" A small, little, black Thing with a long tail Away That flew into the dark, and she never saw it no more They brought the Castle of the golden pillars Jack found it hard to hoist the donkey on his shoulders "Odds splutter hur nails!" cried the giant, not to be outdone. "Hur can do that hurself!" "Ah! Cousin Jack! Kind cousin Jack! This is heavy news indeed" Seated on a huge block of timber near the entrance to a dark cave On his way ... to be revenged The country folk flying before him like chaff before the wind The Three Sillies 1 13 21 26 29 35 49 72 82 86 91 93 95 101 The Golden Ball He heard the bogles striving under the bed The Laidly Worm Tatty sat down and wept As he spoke he drew out of his pocket five beans Jack seized the axe and gave a great chop at the beanstalk So he huffed and he puffed and he blew the house in So he huffed and he puffed and he blew the house in Well! he huffed and he puffed ... but he could not blow the house down At last he flew into a violent rage and flung his stick at the bird A spider one day attacked him "I will go first and you come after, Henny-penny, Cocky-locky, Ducky-daddles, Goosey-poosey, and Turkey-lurkey" So she escaped The thorns closed in around her so that she was all scratched and torn Dick finds that the streets of London are not paved with gold Dick Whittington hears Bow Bells The old woman and her pig How Jack went out to seek his Fortune They both met together upon Nottingham bridge "A vengeance on her!" said they. "We did not make our hedge high enough" He took out the cheeses and rolled them down the hill And they left the eel to drown The hare ran on along the country way A courtier came riding by, and he did ask what they were seeking Lawkamercyme A funny-looking old gentleman engaged her and took her home White-faced simminy has got a spark of hot cockalorum on its tail 108 110 122 130 137 150 170 171 172 197 209 214 215 216 223 236 240 248 257 284 286 287 288 290 291 324 326 327 ST. GEORGE OF MERRIE ENGLAND In the darksome depths of a thick forest lived Kalyb the fell enchantress. Terrible were her deeds, and few there were who had the hardihood to sound the brazen trumpet which hung over the iron gate that barred the way to the Abode of Witchcraft. Terrible were the deeds of Kalyb; but above all things she delighted in carrying off innocent new-born babes, and putting them to death. And this, doubtless, she meant to be the fate of the infant son of the Earl of Coventry, who long long years ago was Lord High Steward of England. Certain it is that the babe's father being absent, and his mother dying at his birth, the wicked Kalyb, with spells and charms, managed to steal the child from his careless nurses. But the babe was marked from the first for doughty deeds; for on his breast was pictured the living image of a dragon, on his right hand was a blood-red cross, and on his left leg showed the golden garter. And these signs so affected Kalyb, the fell enchantress, that she stayed her hand; and the child growing daily in beauty and stature, he became to her as the apple of her eye.