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    CONTENTS

  • I. Bearskin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
  • II. The Water of Life. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
  • III. How One Turned his Trouble to Some Account. . . . . . . . 27
  • IV. How Three Went out into the Wide World . . . . . . . . . . 39
  • V. The Clever Student and the Master of Black Arts . . . . . . 49
  • VI. The Princess Golden Hair and the Great Black Raven . . . . 63
  • VII. Cousin Greylegs, the Great Red Fox, and Grandfather Mole. 77
  • VIII. One Good Turn Deserves Another . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
  • IX. The White Bird . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
  • X. How the Good Gifts were Used by Two . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
  • XI. How Boots Befooled the King. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
  • XII. The Step-mother . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
  • XIII. Master Jacob . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
  • XIV. Peterkin and the Little Grey Hare . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
  • XV. Mother Hildegarde. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
  • XVI. Which is Best . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
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  • XVII. The Simpleton and his Little Black Hen . . . . . . . . . 217
  • XVIII. The Swan Maiden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
  • XIX. The Three Little Pigs and the Ogre. . . . . . . . . . . . 241
  • XX. The Staff and the Fiddle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
  • XXI. How the Princess's Pride was Broken . . . . . . . . . . . 267
  • XXII. How Two Went into Partnership. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
  • XXIII. King Stork. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291
  • XXIV. The Best that Life has to Give . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305

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