PUBLISHERS' NOTE

A LAUGHING SONG

CONTENTS

The Rats and their Son-in-Law

The Mouse and the Sausage

The Three Wishes

The Fox and the Goose

If Heaven Will It

The Booby

The Months

The Stone in the Cock's Head

The Fox and the Cat

The Straw Ox

The Cat, the Cock, and the Fox

The Fox and the Dove

The Fox and the Hedgehog

The Disappointed Bear

Young Neverfull

Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'Neary

The Tail

Jack and the King who was a Gentleman

Hans in Luck

The Family Servants

The Flail which came from the Clouds

The Sole's Mouth

The Three Brothers

The Wren and the Bear

The Musicians of Bremen

The Fox and the Cat (2)

The Golden Key

Doctor Know-All

The Fair Catherine and Pif-Paf Poltrie

The Wolf and the Fox

Discreet Hans

King Thrush-beard

The Three Luck-Children

The Three Sluggards

The Fisherman and his Wife

The Nose-tree

The Adventures of Chanticleer and Partlet

The Golden Goose

The Young Giant

The Sweet Soup

Seven at one Blow

The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership

Old Sultan

The Nail

The Fox and the Horse

The Giant and the Tailor

The Spider and the Flea

The Little Shepherd Boy

The Seven Swabians

The Shreds

The Wolf and the Seven Kids

The Elves and the Shoemaker

King Wren

Why the Bear has a Stumpy Tail

Three Ways to Build a House

How to Tell a True Princess

The Five Servants

The Hare and the Fox

The Story of Zirac

Johnny-Cake

The Wee, Wee Mannie

Sir Gammer Vans

Tom Tit Tot

The Old Woman and her Pig

The Story of the Three Little Pigs

The Three Sillies

The Cat and the Mouse

Hereafterthis

Titty Mouse and Tatty Mouse

The Magpie's Nest

Scrapefoot

The Wise Men of Gotham

Henny-Penny

A Son of Adam

The Happy Family

The Blind Man, the Deaf Man, and the Donkey

The Alligator and the Jackal

Why the Fish Laughed

The Selfish Sparrow and the Houseless Crows

The Lambikin

The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse

The Greedy Cat

Well Done: Ill Paid

Reynard and Chanticleer

Father Bruin in the Corner

Why the Sea is Salt

Gudbrand on the Hillside

The Pancake

The Death of Chanticleer

Reynard Wants to Taste Horse-flesh

Bruin and Reynard Partners

Pork and Honey

How Reynard Outwitted Bruin

Nanny Who Wouldn't Go Home to Supper

The Box With Something Pretty In It

The Farmer and the Troll

One's Own Children Always Prettiest

The Princess Whom Nobody Could Silence

The Money-box

The Darning-Needle

Master of All Masters

Belling the Cat

The Magpie and her Children

The Cock, the Cuckoo, and the Black-cock

The Race Between Hare and Hedgehog

Bruno's Story

The Bluebottle Who Went Courting

How Two Beetles Took Lodgings

Little Tuppen

The Story of the Four Little Children Who Went Round the World

The History of the Seven Families of the Lake Pipple-Popple

Wee Robin's Yule-Song

The Giant's Shoes

The Farmer and the Money-Lender

How the Sun, the Moon, and the Wind Went Out to Dinner

Singh Rajah and the Cunning Little Jackals

Harisarman

It Is Quite True

Manabozho and his Toe

The Most Frugal of Men

The Moon-Cake

The Ladle that Fell from the Moon

The Young Head of the Family

A Dreadful Boar

The Old Man and the Devils

The Wonderful Tea-Kettle

The Wonderful Mallet

The Tongue-Cut Sparrow

Battle of the Monkey and the Crab

The Cub's Triumph

The Silly Jelly-Fish

Chin-Chin Kobakama

The Old Woman who Lost her Dumplings

The Three Goats

The Fox Turned Shepherd

The Seven Boys and the Monster

The Story of Little Black Mingo

The Cock and the Crested Hen

The Old Woman and the Fish

The Lad and the Fox

The Old Woman and the Tramp

TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES

Transcriber's Note:

The cover image was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain.