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CONTENTS

• The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership. . . . . . . . . 1
• The Six Swans. . . . . . . . 4
• The Dragon of the North. . . 9
• Story of the Emperor's New Clothes . . . . . . . . . .21
• The Golden Crab. . . . . . .26
• The Iron Stove . . . . . . .32
• The Dragon and his Grand- mother. . . . . . . . . . .38
• The Donkey Cabbage . . . . .42
• The Little Green Frog. . . .50
• The Seven-headed Serpent . .60
• The Grateful Beasts. . . . .64
• The Giants and the Herd-boy.75
• The Invisible Prince . . . .78
• The Crow . . . . . . . . . .92
• How Six Men travelled through the Wide World. . .95
• The Wizard King. . . . . . 100
• The Nixy . . . . . . . . . 108
• The Glass Mountain . . . . 114
• Alphege, or the Green Monkey. . . . . . . . . . 119
• Fairer-than-a-Fairy. . . . 126
• The Three Brothers . . . . 134
• The Boy and the Wolves, or the Broken Promise. . . . 138
• The Glass Axe. . . . . . . 141
• The Dead Wife. . . . . . . 149
• In the Land of Souls . . . 152
• The White Duck . . . . . . 155
• The Witch and her Servants 161
• The Magic Ring . . . . . . 178
• The Flower Queen's Daughter. . . . . . . . . 192
• The Flying Ship. . . . . . 198
• The Snow-daughter and the Fire-son. . . . . . . . . 206
• The Story of King Frost. . 209
• The Death of the Sun-hero. 213
• The Witch. . . . . . . . . 216
• The Hazel-nut Child. . . . 222
• The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus. . . . . . . 225
• Prince Ring. . . . . . . . 237
• The Swineherd. . . . . . . 249
• How to tell a True Princess254
• The Blue Mountains . . . . 256
• The Tinder-box . . . . . . 265
• The Witch in the Stone Boat274
• Thumbelina . . . . . . . . 279
• The Nightingale. . . . . . 291
• Hermod and Hadvor. . . . . 301
• The Steadfast Tin-soldier. 308
• Blockhead Hans . . . . . . 313
• A Story about a Darning needle. . . . . . . . . . 319