WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY
GERTRUDE DEMAIN HAMMOND

MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED
ST. MARTIN'S STREET, LONDON

1911

MACMILLAN AND CO., Limited

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TORONTO

I DEDICATE THIS BOOK
TO ONE WHO LOVES FAIRY STORIES
THE REVEREND JOHN CYRIL HOWELL

155 Sloane Street, S.W.
May 8, 1911.

Pretty Ysenda.