. The Bookshelf for boys and girls Little Journeys into Bookland . There was an old farmer who had a cat, Mee-ow, mee-ow, mee-ow!She used to waltz with a gray old rat By night in the farmers ! Quack! Cuk-a-ca-doo! Whoof! Baa! Moo!With cat, duck, hen, pig, sheep, and a cow, Pray what could the poor man do?. Cg3 <~%?^^^^®*^ WRITERS OF FAIRY STORIES & In olden times people were more superstitiousthan they are to-day, and readier to believe inunnatural and supernatural beings, so that acci-dents, misfortunes, and lucky events were sup-posed to have been brought about by spirits orby c
. The Bookshelf for boys and girls Little Journeys into Bookland . There was an old farmer who had a cat, Mee-ow, mee-ow, mee-ow!She used to waltz with a gray old rat By night in the farmers ! Quack! Cuk-a-ca-doo! Whoof! Baa! Moo!With cat, duck, hen, pig, sheep, and a cow, Pray what could the poor man do?. Cg3 <~%?^^^^®*^ WRITERS OF FAIRY STORIES & In olden times people were more superstitiousthan they are to-day, and readier to believe inunnatural and supernatural beings, so that acci-dents, misfortunes, and lucky events were sup-posed to have been brought about by spirits orby creatures who had the power of making them-selves visible or invisible as they chose. Suchcreatures were the fairies, the brownies, the gob-lins, and the gnomes. Of course, there was noend to what these fairy folk could do, and inlonely country places everybody would have sometale about them which he thought to be was created what we call folklore, or thesimple stories told by the countryfolk of all of this folklore many fairy tales have come,and no one knows who told them first, as theyexisted for long centuries before people wrotestories down and signed them with their famous tellers of fairy tales have oftenbeen content merely to relate some of these oldstories, and not
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