Front matter

The Fairy Ring

THE CHILDREN'S CRIMSON CLASSICS

EDITED BY KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN AND NORA ARCHIBALD SMITH GOLDEN NUMBERS A Book of Verse for Youth THE POSY RING A Book of Verse for Children PINAFORE PALACE A Book of Rhymes for Children Library of Fairy Literature THE FAIRY RING MAGIC CASEMENTS A Second Fairy Book TALES OF LAUGHTER A Third Fairy Book TALES OF WONDER A Fourth Fairy Book THE TALKING BEASTS Fables from Every Land OTHER VOLUMES TO FOLLOW

LITTLE BROTHER AND SISTER

CRIMSON CLASSICS

THE FAIRY RING

EDITED BY KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN and NORA ARCHIBALD SMITH ——————————

ILLUSTRATED BY ELIZABETH MacKINSTRY —————————— DOUBLEDAY, DORAN & COMPANY, INC. GARDEN CITY 1934 NEW YORK

Copyright, 1906, by McCLURE, PHILLIPS & CO. Copyright, 1910, by DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES AT THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS, GARDEN CITY, N. Y.

Messrs. McClure, Phillips & Company wish to make acknowledgment of their indebtedness to the following publishers:

Little, Brown & Company, for permission to use "Blanche and Vermilion" and "Prince Desire and Princess Mignonette" from Old-Fashioned Fairy Tales;

A. Wessells Company, for permission to use the story of "The Clever Prince" from Fairy Tales from Afar;

American Book Company, for permission to use "Drakesbill and His Friends" from Fairy Tales and Fables;

University Publishing Company, for permission to use "The Troll's Hammer" from Fairy Life;

Harper & Brothers, for permission to use "The Fair One with Golden Locks," "The White Cat," "Prince Cherry," and "The Frog Prince" from Miss Mulock's Fairy Book, and "Yvon and Finette," "The Twelve Months," and "The Story of Coquerico" from Laboulaye's Fairy Tales of all Nations;

G. P. Putnam's Sons, for permission to use "History of Tom Thumb" and "Tattercoats" from Joseph Jacobs's English Fairy Tales; "Munachar and Manachar" from Joseph Jacobs's Celtic Fairy Tales; and "Master Tobacco," "Mother Roundabout's Daughter," and "The Sheep and the Pig" from Dasent's Tales from the Field;

F. A. Stokes Company, for permission to use "Lars, My Lad," and "Twigmuntus and Cowbelliantus" from Fairy Tales from the Swedish;

Longmans, Green & Company, for permission to use the following stories: "The Yellow Dwarf," "The Many-Furred Creature," "Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle," "Princess and the Glass Hill," "The Golden Crab," "The Magic Ring," "Snow-white and Rose-red," "Graciosa and Percinet," "The Iron Stove," "The Good Little Mouse," and "The Three Feathers" from the Andrew Lang Fairy Books.

We also wish to express our thanks to Mr. Seumas MacManus, for permission to use "The Bee, the Harp, and the Bum-Clock," "The Long Leather Bag," and "The Widow's Daughter" from his books, Donegal Fairy Tales and In Chimney Corners, published by us.