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BEDTIME WONDER TALES
BY
CLIFTON JOHNSON
Hop-o’-My-Thumb The Babes in the Wood The Brave Tin Soldier The Fox and the Little Red Hen Golden Hair and the Three Bears Cinderella Puss in Boots Jack and the Beanstalk Little Red Riding-Hood The Story of Chicken-Licken Bluebeard Tom Thumb The Pied Piper The Sleeping Beauty St. George and the Dragon
Other books will be added to
the series from time to time.
Bluebeard’s Wife and the Forbidden Room (Page 16)
BEDTIME WONDER TALES
BLUEBEARD
BY
CLIFTON JOHNSON
ILLUSTRATED BY
HARRY L. SMITH
NEW YORK
THE MACAULAY COMPANY
PUBLISHERS
Copyright, 1920,
By THE MACAULAY COMPANY
All Rights Reserved
Printed in the U. S. A.
INTRODUCTORY NOTE
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
CHAPTERPAGE
IBluebeard11
IIThe Blood-Stained Key17
IIIA Goblin in a Bottle24
IVA Scholar’s Fortune32
VYallery Brown36
VIA Troublesome Helper43
VIIThe Little Jackal49
VIIIThe Blind Ogre58
IXSeven Doves64
XTime and His Mother71
XIBlockhead Hans78
XIIThe Rival Suitors85
XIIICunning Tom90
XIVA Miser’s Hired Man96
XVThe Boy in a Peach103
XVIA Warrior’s Helpers108
XVIIThe Island of Demons113
XVIIIAndrew Coffey118
XIXCareless Mr. Buzzard127
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Bluebeard’s Wife and the Forbidden RoomFrontispiece
The Goblin Threatens the Scholar28
The Alligator Goes to the Jackal’s House54
Appealing to the Mother of Time72
Blockhead Hans and the Dead Crow82
The Monkey and the Warrior110