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    Bedtime Stories Volume 1
    Bedtime Stories Volume 1
    Bedtime Stories Volume 1
    Ebook88 pages42 minutes

    Bedtime Stories Volume 1

    By Miles Kelly

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    Bedtime will never be a struggle with this enchanting collection of bedtime stories. Children will be enthralled by tales of witches, wizards, kings, princesses and a host of magical beasts. All in all, this anthology is a heady mix of child-like charm, filled with tales of adventures from across the globe, all accompanied by exquisite illustrations. Reading times accompany each story.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMiles Kelly
    Release dateNov 18, 2010
    ISBN9781452318455
    Bedtime Stories Volume 1
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    Miles Kelly

    Miles Kelly Publishing is an independent children’s publishing company founded by Jim Miles and Gerard Kelly in 1996 and based just outside the ancient town of Thaxted in Essex, UK. Our books are available throughout the world in over 50 languages. The trademarks are superb artwork, great design values in layouts and covers and well-written text suited to children between the ages of 3 and 12 years. Above all, our aim has been to make our top-quality books enjoyable, attractive and useful with fresh and innovative features that appeal to a wide readership.The range of titles is wide and varied. We have over 800 titles in out list. These include – encyclopedias, reference series, quiz books, dictionaries, atlases, handbooks, fact books, poetry, fiction, novelty books and much more. The list continues to grow at the rate of about 100 new titles per year.Since we began we have produced books for other publishers. In total we have created over 200 titles for 15 different publishing companies in the UK and US.Miles Kelly Publishing is registered in England. Registered No. 3220486. Registered offices: Harding's Barn, Bardfield End Green, Thaxted, Essex CM6 3PX, England.

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      Poorly scanned and written (maybe translated?) . Essential story elements (letters) missing in The Fish and the Ring, and style was inconsistent, awkward.

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    Bedtime Stories Volume 1 - Miles Kelly

    Bedtime Stories Volume 1

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    Miles Kelly

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    Bedtime Stories Volume 1

    Published by Miles Kelly at Smashwords

    Copyright 2010 Miles Kelly

    This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient.

    Table of Contents

    Jack the Cunning Thief Reading time 25 mins

    The Fish and the Ring Reading time 10 mins

    Cap o’ Rushes Reading time 10 mins

    The Four Clever Brothers Reading time 10 mins

    Tattercoats Reading time 10 mins

    The Clever Apprentice Reading time 3 mins

    The Ogre’s Bride Reading time 10 mins

    The Wise Girl Reading time 12 mins

    Jack the Cunning Thief

    By Joseph Jacobs

    READING TIME: 25 MINUTES

    There was a poor farmer who had three sons, and on the same day the three boys went to seek their fortune. The eldest two were sensible young men—but the youngest, Jack, never did much at home that was any use. He loved to be setting snares for rabbits and inventing all sorts of funny tricks to annoy people at first and then set them laughing.

    The three parted at a crossroads, and Jack took the lonesomest. The day turned out rainy, and he was wet and weary, you may depend, at nightfall, when he came to a lonesome house a little off the road.

    What do you want? said a bleary-eyed old woman, who was sitting at the fire.

    My supper and a bed, to be sure, said he.

    You can’t get it, said she.

    What’s to hinder me? said he.

    The owners of this house, said she, six tough men that go out until three or four o’clock in the morning each night. And if they find you when they get back they’ll skin you alive at the very least.

    Well, I think, said Jack, that their very most couldn’t be much worse. Come, give me something out of the cupboard, for here I’ll stay. Skinning is not much worse than catching your death of cold in a ditch or under a tree such a night as this.

    Well, she grew afraid, and gave him a good supper, and when he was going to bed, he said that if she let any of the six honest men disturb him when they came home she’d be sorry for it. But when he awoke in the morning, there were six ugly-looking rascals standing around his bed. He leaned on his elbow and looked at them with great contempt. Who are you, said the chief, and what’s your business?

    My name, said he, is Master Thief, and my business just now is to find apprentices and workmen. If I find you any good, maybe I’ll give you a few lessons.

    They were a little cowed by that; said the head man, Well, get up, and after breakfast, we’ll see who is to be the master, and who the apprentice.

    They had just finished breakfast, when what should they see but a farmer driving a fine large goat to market.

    Will any of you, said Jack, undertake to steal that goat from the owner before he gets out of the wood, and that without the smallest violence?

    I couldn’t do it, said one, and I couldn’t do it, said another.

    I’m your master, said Jack, and it’s up to me do it.

    He slipped out through the trees where there was a bend in the road and laid down his right shoe in the very middle of it. Then he ran on to another bend and laid down his left shoe and went and hid himself.

    When the farmer saw the first shoe, he said to himself, That would be worth something if it had its pair, but it is worth nothing by itself.

    He went on until he came to the second shoe.

    What a fool I was, he thought, not to pick up the other! I’ll go back for it.

    So he tied the goat to a sapling

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