Bluebeard

The books in this series of Bedtime Wonder Tales are made up of favorite stories from the folklore of all nations. Such stories are particularly enjoyed by children from four to twelve years of age. As here told they are free from the savagery, distressing details, and excessive pathos which mar many of the tales in the form that they have come down to us from a barbaric past. But there has been no sacrifice of the simplicity and humor and sweetness that give them perennial charm.

The sources of the stories in this volume are as follows: Page 11, France; 24, Grimm; 36, England; 49, Hindustan; 58, Italy; 78, Germany; 90, Scotland; 103, Japan; 118, Ireland; 127, American Negro.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER		PAGE
I	Bluebeard	11
II	The Blood-Stained Key	17
III	A Goblin in a Bottle	24
IV	A Scholar’s Fortune	32
V	Yallery Brown	36
VI	A Troublesome Helper	43
VII	The Little Jackal	49
VIII	The Blind Ogre	58
IX	Seven Doves	64
X	Time and His Mother	71
XI	Blockhead Hans	78
XII	The Rival Suitors	85
XIII	Cunning Tom	90
XIV	A Miser’s Hired Man	96
XV	The Boy in a Peach	103
XVI	A Warrior’s Helpers	108
XVII	The Island of Demons	113
XVIII	Andrew Coffey	118
XIX	Careless Mr. Buzzard	127

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Bluebeard’s Wife and the Forbidden Room	Frontispiece
The Goblin Threatens the Scholar	28
The Alligator Goes to the Jackal’s House	54
Appealing to the Mother of Time	72
Blockhead Hans and the Dead Crow	82
The Monkey and the Warrior	110

BLUEBEARD—AND OTHER FOLKLORE STORIES

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