Dedicated by the author to The wonderful Delaneys. This story is a retelling of Joseph Jacob's 1890 classic, English Fairy Tales. In his notes and references he gives credit to an earlier version from the journal Folk Lore that "was communicated by Miss C. Burne." He also mentions one that was "told in Essex at the beginning of the century," and another from the collection of the Brothers Grimm. This is a 1st Scholastic Paperback Edition.
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Dedicated by the author to The wonderful Delaneys. This story is a retelling of Joseph Jacob's 1890 classic, English Fairy Tales. In his notes and references he gives credit to an earlier version from the journal Folk Lore that "was communicated by Miss C. Burne." He also mentions one that was "told in Essex at the beginning of the century," and another from the collection of the Brothers Grimm. This is a 1st Scholastic Paperback Edition.