Beasts & Men / Folk Tales Collected in Flanders and Illustrated by Jean de BosschEre

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CONTENTS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

UPS AND DOWNS

THE THREE MONKEYS

HOW THE GOLDFINCH GOT HIS COLOURS

THE COCK AND THE FOX

THE MOST CUNNING ANIMAL

SPONSKEN AND THE GIANT

WHY CATS ALWAYS WASH AFTER EATING

THE CHORISTERS OF ST. GUDULE

THE TRIAL OF REYNARD THE FOX I. HOW CHANTICLEER THE COCK MADE COMPLAINT AGAINST REYNARD T

THE MAGIC CAP

SUGAR-CANDY HOUSE

POOR PETER

THE PEASANT AND HIS ASS

THE KING OF THE BIRDS

A DRUM FULL OF BEES

THE DRUNKEN ROOKS

THE BATTLE OF THE BIRDS AND BEASTS

THE END OF THE WORLD

THE REWARD OF THE WORLD

ONE BAD TURN BEGETS ANOTHER

THE PEASANT AND THE SATYRS

THE TWO FRIENDS AND THE BARREL OF GREASE

WHY THE BEAR HAS A STUMPY TAIL

THE WITCH'S CAT

The cover of this book was created by the transcriber, using a plain cover and the title page; it is placed in the public domain. A more extensive transcriber’s note can be found at the end of this book.

Uniform with this Volume

CHRISTMAS TALES OF FLANDERS

With Plates in Colour and many
Black and White Illustrations by
JEAN DE BOSSCHÈRE

“This handsome and well-illustrated book is one of the most attractive we have seen this season. It gives us renderings of the popular fables and legends current in Flanders and Brabant which have a colour and quaintness of their own, yet combines adventures with an unobtrusive and so more effective moral.”—Saturday Review.

“There are delightful stories; even more attractive than the letterpress are M. de BosschÈre’s illustrations. Conceived with inexhaustible fancy, full of quaint detail, and set down with a fascinating naÏvetÉ they embody the characters and scenes of the tales with a fullness of particularism that should provide endless entertainment to youthful readers. They are the best and most complete series of designs yet produced by the artist.”—Connoisseur.

“The illustrations by Jean de BosschÈre are of a droll fancy. The artist has a notable power of the grotesque, and both in colour and black and white he uses it.”—Daily Telegraph.


LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN

FOLK TALES OF
BEASTS AND MEN

The Kinglet warned him
Title Page

BEASTS & MEN

FOLK TALES COLLECTED
IN FLANDERS AND
ILLUSTRATED BY
JEAN DE BOSSCHÈRE

LONDON · WILLIAM HEINEMANN
NEW YORK · DODD, MEAD & COMPANY


London: William Heinemann, 1918



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