The Tales Of Mother Goose As First Collected By Charles Perraul

Little Thumb, who had observed that the Ogre's daughters had crowns of gold upon their heads, and was afraid lest the Ogre should repent his not killing them that evening, got u...

These orders were not necessary; for in a quarter of an hour's time there grew up all round about the park such a vast number of trees, great and small, bushes and brambles, twi...

The ground at the same time opened, and she saw under her feet a great kitchen full of cooks, kitchen helps, and all sorts of officers necessary for a magnificent entertainment....

[Transcriber's note: In the story "Riquet of the Tuft," the following symbols are used to represent special characters: [=e] = the letter "e" with superior macron [=a] = the let...

The eight stories contained in this volume are first found in print in French in a magazine entitled, _Receuil de pièces curieuses et nouvelles tant en prose qu'en vers_, which...