Dutch fairy tales for young folks

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Contributor: Griffis, William Elliot
Date: 1918

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Contributor: Griffis, William Elliot
Date: 1918

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Dutch fairy tales

Contributor: Griffis, William Elliot
Date: 1918

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Dutch fairy tales

Contributor: Griffis, William Elliot
Date: 1918

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Dutch fairy tales

Contributor: Griffis, William Elliot
Date: 1918

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Dutch fairy tales

Contributor: Griffis, William Elliot
Date: 1918

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Dutch fairy tales Dutch Fairy Tales for Young Folks By WILLIAM ELLIOT GRIFFIS Author of “The Firefly s Lovers The Unmannerly Tiger f Brave Little Holland “Bonnie Scotland, etc. NEW YORK THOMAS Y. CROWELL COMPANY...

Contributor: Griffis, William Elliot
Date: 1918

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Dutch fairy tales Copyright, iqiB, By Thomas Y. Crowell Company OCT 31 1918 ©CI.A506406

Contributor: Griffis, William Elliot
Date: 1918

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Dutch fairy tales Contents The Entangled Mermaid i The Boy Who Wanted More Cheese n The Princess with Twenty Petticoats 20 The Cat and the Cradle 29 Prince Spin Head and Miss Snow White 39...

Contributor: Griffis, William Elliot
Date: 1918

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Dutch fairy tales

Contributor: Griffis, William Elliot
Date: 1918

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Dutch fairy tales Dutch Fairy Tales for Young Folks THE ENTANGLED MERMAID ONG ago, in Dutch Fairy Land, there lived a young mermaid who was very proud of her good looks. She was one of...

Contributor: Griffis, William Elliot
Date: 1918

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Dutch fairy tales 2 DUTCH FAIRY TALES Her mother and two aunts were merwomen. All of these were sober folks and attended to the business which occupies all well brought up mermaids and merrymen. This...

Contributor: Griffis, William Elliot
Date: 1918

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Dutch fairy tales DUTCH FAIRY TALES 3 usually clear, so that when the party broke up, the mermen could see their way in the moonlight to swim home safely with their mermaid friends. For, there...

Contributor: Griffis, William Elliot
Date: 1918

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Dutch fairy tales 4 DUTCH FAIRY TALES Every once in a while they chose a queen of beauty for their ruler. Then each of the others pretended to be a princess. Their games and sports...

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Date: 1918

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Dutch fairy tales DUTCH FAIRY TALES 5 was very proud of her fine figure and slender waist. Their girls can’t be half as pretty as we are.” Well, I should like to be a real...

Contributor: Griffis, William Elliot
Date: 1918

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Dutch fairy tales 6 DUTCH FAIRY TALES things as covers for the fingers. Just for fun, one of the little mermaids used to draw some bag-like seaweed over her hands, to see how such things...

Contributor: Griffis, William Elliot
Date: 1918

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Dutch fairy tales DUTCH FAIRY TALES 7 Boo-hoo, boo-hoo,” and the merman still wept salt water tears, as he tried to catch his breath. At last, he talked sensibly. He warned the Queen that a...

Contributor: Griffis, William Elliot
Date: 1918

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Dutch fairy tales 8 DUTCH FAIRY TALES tired after entertaining so much company. Be- sides, since daddy and mother were away, and there were no beaus to entertain, since it was a dark night and...

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Date: 1918

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Dutch fairy tales DUTCH FAIRY TALES 9 comb and mirror and try to untangle her tresses. The more she tried, the worse became the tangle. Soon her long hair was all twisted up in the...

Contributor: Griffis, William Elliot
Date: 1918

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Dutch fairy tales io DUTCH FAIRY TALES and mounted in the museum, that is, set up above a glass case and resting upon iron rods. Artists came to Leyden to make pictures of her and...

Contributor: Griffis, William Elliot
Date: 1918

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Dutch fairy tales THE BOY WHO WANTED MORE CHEESE LAAS VAN BOMMEL was a Dutch boy, twelve years old, who lived where cows were plentiful. He was over five feet high, weighed a hundred pounds,...

Contributor: Griffis, William Elliot
Date: 1918

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Dutch fairy tales 12 DUTCH FAIRY TALES Klaas was a farmer’s boy. He had rye bread and fresh milk for breakfast. At dinner time, beside cheese and bread, he was given a plate heaped with...

Contributor: Griffis, William Elliot
Date: 1918

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Dutch fairy tales DUTCH FAIRY TALES *3 a week. Baking time was a great event at the Van Bommels’ and no men-folks were allowed in the kitchen on that day, unless they were called in...

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Date: 1918

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Dutch fairy tales DUTCH FAIRY TALES H crying, went to bed in bad humor. He had teased each one of his sisters to give him her bit of cheese, and this, added to his own...

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Date: 1918

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Dutch fairy tales DUTCH FAIRY TALES 15 To make sure of it, the sleepy boy now rubbed bis eyes and cocked his ears. Again, the light- bearer spoke to him: Come.” Could it be? He...

Contributor: Griffis, William Elliot
Date: 1918

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Dutch fairy tales i6 DUTCH FAIRY TALES clearly that there were dozens of pretty creatures, hardly as large as dolls, but as lively as crickets. They were as full of light, as if lamps had...

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Date: 1918

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Dutch fairy tales DUTCH FAIRY TALES *7 His head lay on the inner curve of the fairy ring, with his feet in the centre. Ivlaas felt very happy, for he had no sense of being...

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Date: 1918

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Dutch fairy tales 18 DUTCH FAIRY TALES the fairies rolling along the huge, round, flat cheeses from Friesland! Any one of these was as big as a cart wheel, and would feed a regi- ment....

Contributor: Griffis, William Elliot
Date: 1918

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Dutch fairy tales DUTCH FAIRY TALES l 9 eyes, he saw the red sun rising on the sand-dunes. Birds were singing and the cocks were crowing all around him, in chorus, as if saluting him....

Contributor: Griffis, William Elliot
Date: 1918

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Dutch fairy tales THE PRINCESS WITH TWENTY PETTICOATS ONG, long ago, before ever a blue flax- flower bloomed in Holland, and when Dutch mothers wore wolf-skin clothes, there was a little princess, very much beloved...

Contributor: Griffis, William Elliot
Date: 1918

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Dutch fairy tales DUTCH FAIRY TALES 21 feel her forehead to see if horns were growing there. The nurse they called her governess,” as the years went on grew tired of the behavior of the...

Contributor: Griffis, William Elliot
Date: 1918

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Dutch fairy tales 22 DUTCH FAIRY TALES always kind to animals. Her pet was a little aurochs calf. Some hunters had killed the mother of the poor little thing in winter time. So the princess...

Contributor: Griffis, William Elliot
Date: 1918

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Dutch fairy tales DUTCH FAIRY TALES 2 3 park, the prince, though he was then only a boy, ran out and drove the rough fellows away. Then he sheltered and fed the aurochs family of...

Contributor: Griffis, William Elliot
Date: 1918

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Dutch fairy tales 24 DUTCH FAIRY TALES something better shall follow. When I pass away, you will find on this spot a blue flower growing. Where the forest was shall be fields, on which the...

Contributor: Griffis, William Elliot
Date: 1918

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Dutch fairy tales DUTCH FAIRY TALES 25 In a moment a tempest arose, which drove the king for shelter behind some rocks hard by. After a few minutes, the wind ceased and the sky was...

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Date: 1918

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Dutch fairy tales 26 DUTCH FAIRY TALES erness and her parents by combing and curling her own hair. In truth, such a wonderful change came over the princess that she did not often have to...

Contributor: Griffis, William Elliot
Date: 1918

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Dutch fairy tales DUTCH FAIRY TALES 27 Now when the princess saw what pretty clothes the snow white linen made, she invented a new style of dress. The upper garment, or rok,” that is, the...

Contributor: Griffis, William Elliot
Date: 1918

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Dutch fairy tales 28 DUTCH FAIRY TALES among the women of the coast. Fat or thin, tall or short, they pile on the petticoats and swing their skirts proudly as they walk or go to...

Contributor: Griffis, William Elliot
Date: 1918

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Dutch fairy tales

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Date: 1918

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Dutch fairy tales

Contributor: Griffis, William Elliot
Date: 1918

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