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BY THE SAME AUTHOR "The Meadows of Play" (With an Introduction by G. K. Chesterton; Illustrated by Edith Calvert.) London, ELKIN MATTHEWS, Vigo Street 2s. 6d. net

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FAIRY TALES from the GERMAN FORESTS

by

FRAU ARNDT

LONDON: EVERETT & CO. LTD. 42 Essex Street, W.C.

TO MY DAUGHTERS MARGARET AND BARBARA, AND TO MY NEPHEWS CHARLES AND STEPHEN JOHNSON, THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED

CONTENTS

WHAT'S THE USE OF IT?

THE ENGINEER AND THE DWARFS

KÄTHCHEN AND THE KOBOLD

THE OLD KING

THE DRAGON'S TAIL

THE EASTER HARE

THE NIXY LAKE

KING REINHOLD

THE WITCH'S GRANDDAUGHTER

HOLIDAY ADVENTURES

INTRODUCTORY POEM

"The stories that the fairies told

I learnt in English lanes of old,

Where honeysuckle, wreathing high,

Twined with the wild rose towards the sky,

Or where pink-tinged anemones

Grew thousand starred beneath the trees.

I saw them, too, in London town,

But sly and cautious, glancing down,

Where in the grass the crocus grow

And ladies ride in Rotten Row,

St James's Park's a garden meet

For tiny babes and fairy feet.

But since I came to Germany,

The good folk oftener talk to me;

I find them in their native home

When through the forest depths I roam,

When through the trees blue mountains shine,

The heart of fairyland is mine."