Mrs. Gomme comes only second
in rank among my creditors for thanks which I can scarcely pay without
becoming bankrupt in gratitude. Other friends have been equally kind,
especially Mr. Alfred Nutt, who has helped by adapting some of the book
versions, and by reading the proofs, while to the Councils of the
American and English Folk-Lore Societies I have again to repeat my
thanks for permission to use materials which first appeared in their
publications. Finally, I have had Mr. Batten with me once again--what
should I or other English children do without him?
JOSEPH JACOBS.
[Footnote 1: See "The Science of Folk Tales and the Problem of
Diffusion" in _Transactions of the International Folk-Lore Congress_,
1891. Mr. Lang has honoured me with a rejoinder, which I regard as a
palinode, in his Preface to Miss Roalfe Cox's volume of variants of
_Cinderella_ (Folk-Lore Society, 1892).]
Contents
THE PIED PIPER OF FRANCHVILLE
HEREAFTERTHIS
THE GOLDEN BALL
MY OWN SELF
THE BLACK BULL OF NORROWAY
YALLERY BROWN
THREE FEATHERS
SIR GAMMER VANS
TOM HICKATHRIFT
THE HEDLEY KOW
GOBBORN SEER
LAWKAMERCYME
TATTERCOATS
THE WEE BANNOCK
JOHNNY GLOKE
COAT O' CLAY
THE THREE COWS
THE BLINDED GIANT
SCRAPEFOOT
THE PEDLAR OF SWAFFHAM
THE OLD WITCH
THE THREE WISHES
THE BURIED MOON
A SON OF ADAM
THE CHILDREN IN THE WOOD
THE HOBYAHS
A POTTLE O' BRAINS
THE KING OF ENGLAND AND HIS THREE SONS
KING JOHN AND THE ABBOT OF CANTERBURY
RUSHEN COATIE
THE KING 'O THE CATS
TAMLANE
THE STARS IN THE SKY
NEWS!
PUDDOCK, MOUSIE AND RATTON
THE LITTLE BULL-CALF
THE WEE, WEE MANNIE
HABETROT AND SCANTLIE MAB
OLD MOTHER WIGGLE-WAGGLE
CATSKIN
STUPID'S CRIES
THE LAMBTON WORM
THE WISE MEN OF GOTHAM
THE PRINCESS OF CANTERBURY
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NOTES AND REFERENCES
Full Page Illustrations
TAMLANE
THE BLACK BULL OF NORROWAY
TATTERCOATS
THE OLD WITCH
THE CASTLE OF MELVALES
THE LITTLE BULL-CALF
THE LAMBTON WORM
WARNING TO CHILDREN
MORE ENGLISH FAIRY TALES
The Pied Piper
Newtown, or Franchville, as 't was called of old, is a sleepy little
town, as you all may know, upon the Solent shore.
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