Front matter
Reading edition
RETOLD BY FLORA ANNIE STEEL
Illustrated by Arthur Rackham
First published by Macmillan & Co. 1918
Mr. and Mrs. Vinegar at home (page 190.)
CONTENTS
ST. GEORGE OF MERRIE ENGLAND
THE STORY OF THE THREE BEARS
TOM-TIT-TOT
THE GOLDEN SNUFF-BOX
TATTERCOATS
THE THREE FEATHERS
LAZY JACK
JACK THE GIANT-KILLER
THE THREE SILLIES
THE GOLDEN BALL
THE TWO SISTERS
THE LAIDLY WORM
TITTY MOUSE AND TATTY MOUSE
JACK AND THE BEANSTALK
THE BLACK BULL OF NORROWAY
CATSKIN
THE THREE LITTLE PIGS
NIX NAUGHT NOTHING
MR. AND MRS. VINEGAR
THE TRUE HISTORY OF SIR THOMAS THUMB
HENNY-PENNY
THE THREE HEADS OF THE WELL
MR. FOX
DICK WHITTINGTON AND HIS CAT
THE OLD WOMAN AND HER PIG
THE WEE BANNOCK
HOW JACK WENT OUT TO SEEK HIS FORTUNE
THE BOGEY-BEAST
LITTLE RED RIDING-HOOD
CHILDE ROWLAND
THE WISE MEN OF GOTHAM
CAPORUSHES
THE BABES IN THE WOOD
THE RED ETTIN
THE FISH AND THE RING
LAWKAMERCYME
MASTER OF ALL MASTERS
MOLLY WHUPPIE AND THE DOUBLE-FACED GIANT
THE ASS, THE TABLE, AND THE STICK
THE WELL OF THE WORLD'S END
THE ROSE TREE
ILLUSTRATIONS
IN COLOUR
Mr. and Mrs. Vinegar at homeFrontis
"Somebody has been at my porridge, and has eaten it all up!"22
Tattercoats dancing while the gooseherd pipes54
The giant Cormoran was the terror of all the country-side70
Taking the keys of the castle, Jack unlocked all the doors78
The giant Galligantua and the wicked old magician transform the duke's
daughter into a white hind94
"Tree of mine! O Tree of mine! Have you seen my naughty little maid?"114
"Fee-fi-fo-fum, I smell the blood of an Englishman"147
She went along, and went along, and went along164
And that is the story of Mr. and Mrs. Vinegar197
They thanked her and said good-bye, and she went on her journey216
Many's the beating he had from the broomstick or the ladle232
When Puss saw the rats and mice she didn't wait to be told241
"Well!" she chuckled, "I am in luck!"266
She sate down and plaited herself an overall of rushes and a cap to match302
The fisherman and his wife had no children, and they were just longing
for a baby341
IN TEXT
St. George of Merrie England1
When she came to St. George she started and laid her hand on her heart13
"Somebody has been lying in my bed,—and here she is!"21
"What is that you are singing, my good woman?"26
A small, little, black Thing with a long tail29
Away That flew into the dark, and she never saw it no more35
They brought the Castle of the golden pillars49
Jack found it hard to hoist the donkey on his shoulders72
"Odds splutter hur nails!" cried the giant, not to be outdone. "Hur can
do that hurself!"82
"Ah! Cousin Jack! Kind cousin Jack! This is heavy news indeed"86
Seated on a huge block of timber near the entrance to a dark cave91
On his way ... to be revenged93
The country folk flying before him like chaff before the wind95
The Three Sillies101
The Golden Ball108
He heard the bogles striving under the bed110
The Laidly Worm122
Tatty sat down and wept130
As he spoke he drew out of his pocket five beans137
Jack seized the axe and gave a great chop at the beanstalk150
So he huffed and he puffed and he blew the house in170
So he huffed and he puffed and he blew the house in171
Well! he huffed and he puffed ... but he could not blow the house
down172
At last he flew into a violent rage and flung his stick at the bird197
A spider one day attacked him209
"I will go first and you come after, Henny-penny, Cocky-locky,214
Ducky-daddles, Goosey-poosey, and Turkey-lurkey"215
So she escaped216
The thorns closed in around her so that she was all scratched and torn223
Dick finds that the streets of London are not paved with gold236
Dick Whittington hears Bow Bells240
The old woman and her pig248
How Jack went out to seek his Fortune257
They both met together upon Nottingham bridge284
"A vengeance on her!" said they. "We did not make our hedge high enough"286
He took out the cheeses and rolled them down the hill287
And they left the eel to drown288
The hare ran on along the country way290
A courtier came riding by, and he did ask what they were seeking291
Lawkamercyme324
A funny-looking old gentleman engaged her and took her home326
White-faced simminy has got a spark of hot cockalorum on its tail327
