. The pink fairy book. THE MAIDEN BRIXGS THE COAT OF HAIR TO THE GIANT. THE Pink Fairy Book EDITED BY ANDEEW LANG. WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS BY H. J. FORD NEW YORKLONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO. LONDON AND BOMBAY 1897 All rights reserved THE r -^-^ ^ 3454:4. Copyright 1897 BY Longmans, Green, & Co. John Wilson and Son, Cambridge, PREFACE All people in the world tell nursery tales to theirchildren. The Japanese tell them, the Chinese, theRed Indians by their camp fires, the Eskimo in theirdark dirty winter huts. The Kafiirs of South Africatell them, and the modern Greeks, just as the ol

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. The pink fairy book. THE MAIDEN BRIXGS THE COAT OF HAIR TO THE GIANT. THE Pink Fairy Book EDITED BY ANDEEW LANG. WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS BY H. J. FORD NEW YORKLONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO. LONDON AND BOMBAY 1897 All rights reserved THE r -^-^ ^ 3454:4. Copyright 1897 BY Longmans, Green, & Co. John Wilson and Son, Cambridge, PREFACE All people in the world tell nursery tales to theirchildren. The Japanese tell them, the Chinese, theRed Indians by their camp fires, the Eskimo in theirdark dirty winter huts. The Kafiirs of South Africatell them, and the modern Greeks, just as the oldEgyptians did, when Moses had not been manyyears rescued out of the bulrushes. The Germans,French, Spanish, Italians, Danes, Highlanders tellthem also, and the stories are apt to be like eachother everywhere. A child who has read the Blueand Red and Yellow Fairy Books will find some oldfriends with new faces in the Pink Fairy Book, ifhe examines and compares. But the Japanese taleswill probably be new to the young student; theTanuki is a creature whose acquaintance he may nothave made before. He may rema

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