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    THE FIRST BOOK OF FAIRY TALES - Raising funds for Children in Need: 26 illustrated stories and poems
    THE FIRST BOOK OF FAIRY TALES - Raising funds for Children in Need: 26 illustrated stories and poems
    THE FIRST BOOK OF FAIRY TALES - Raising funds for Children in Need: 26 illustrated stories and poems
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    THE FIRST BOOK OF FAIRY TALES - Raising funds for Children in Need: 26 illustrated stories and poems

    By Anon E. Mouse and compiled by John Halsted

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    This book has especially been republished to raise funds for the BBC’s Children in Need appeals.
    This book is compiled of 26 old, rare and forgotten Fairy Tales and stories taken from books in Abela Publishing’s series “Folk-Lore, Fairytales, Myths and Legends from Around the World” - a series created to raise funds for charities and underprivileged individuals. Keeping true to our vision, the intent behind this compendium is to raise funds for BBC’s Children in Need Appeal.

    The 26 stories and poems in this volume raising funds for the appeal are
    • Tom Tit Tot - English
    • King O'toole And His Goose  - Irish
    • The Origin Of Loch Ness - Scottish
    • The Widow And Her Daughters - Scottish
    • Fair, Brown And Trembling - Irish
    • The Perfidious Vizier - Arabian
    • The Frog's Skin – Rep. of Georgia
    • Turtle-Dove, Sage-Cock And The Witch  - American Indian
    • A Story About A Giant And The Cause Of Thunder – West Africa
    • The Parrot's Song  - Armenian poem
    • The Emperor Tenchi – Japanese poem
    • The Beggar King - Israeli
    • The Foolish, Timid Rabbit – Jataka Tale
    • Cradle Song – Armenian poem
    • The Charmed Ring - India
    • The Thirteenth Son Of The King Of Erin - Celtic
    • The Minister Michi-Nobu Fujiwara – Japanese poem
    • The Monkey’s Fiddle – Kalahari Bushmen
    • The Daughter Of The Rose - Romania
    • The Gypsy And The Dragon – Bukowina Gypsy
    • How The Sacred Duck Got His Yellow Breast - Tibet
    • The Story Of Gelert - Wales
    • Why The Kingfisher Always Wears A War Bonnet – American Indian
    • How Sun, Moon, And Wind Went Out To Dinner - India
    • Twas The Night Before Christmas – Viking Version
    • The Tail - Celtic

    The words 'Fairy Tales' must be taken to include tales in which something 'fairy', something extraordinary occurs -- fairies, giants, dwarfs, speaking animals. Mostly it is the comical stupidity of some of the actors, as is so common in moral tales.

    In buying this book you will be giving in more than one way. Once to the Children in Need appeal and again, to yourself, as you read and enjoy stories not read for many a year. But should you perchance happen to read these stories to your children, nieces and nephews or grand-children, you will be giving yet again. 10% of the profit from the sale of this book will be donated to the appeal.

    So take some time out and travel back to a period before television, or even radio for that matter, when families would gather around a crackling and spitting hearth and granddad or grandma  or an uncle or aunt would delight and captivate their audience with stories passed on to them from their mothers, fathers and grandparents.
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    KEYWORDS/TAGS: Folklore, fairy tales, myths, legends, children’s stories, bedtime, fables, lore, Children in Need, Appeal, Tom Tit Tot, English, King O'toole, Goose, Ireland, Origin Of Loch Ness, Scotland, Widow, Daughters, Fair, Brown, Trembling, Perfidious Vizier, Arabia, Frog's Skin, Turtle-Dove, Sage-Cock, Witch, Giant, Cause Of Thunder, West Africa, Parrot's Song, Armenia, Emperor Tenchi, Beggar King, Jewish, Foolish, Timid Rabbit, Cradle Song, Charmed Ring, Thirteenth Son, King Of Erin, Celtic, Minister, Fujiwara, Japan, Monkey’s Fiddle, Jataka, Daughter, Rose, Romania, Gypsy, Dragon, Sacred Duck, Yellow Breast, Tibet, Gelert, wales, Kingfisher, War Bonnet, American Indian, Sun, Moon, Wind, Out To Dinner, India, Night Before Christmas, Viking, Tail
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAbela Publishing
    Release dateFeb 14, 2018
    ISBN9788827571514
    THE FIRST BOOK OF FAIRY TALES - Raising funds for Children in Need: 26 illustrated stories and poems

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      THE FIRST BOOK OF FAIRY TALES - Raising funds for Children in Need - Anon E. Mouse

      The First Book

      of

      Fairy Tales

      Compiled By

      John Halsted

      Published By

      Abela Publishing, London

      [2018]

      * * * * * * *

      Originally Published

      To Raise Funds For

      CHILDREN in NEED 2009

      The First Book of Fairy Tales

      Typographical arrangement of this edition

      © Abela Publishing 2018

      This book may not be reproduced in its current format in any manner in any media, or transmitted by any means whatsoever, electronic, electrostatic, magnetic tape, or mechanical ( including photocopy, file or video recording, internet web sites, blogs, wikis, or any other information storage and retrieval system) except as permitted by law without the prior written permission of the publisher.

      Abela Publishing

      London

      United Kingdom

      2018

      ISBN-13: 978-X-XXXXXX-XX-X

      email

      Books@AbelaPublishing.com

      Website

      www.AbelaPublishing.com

      Acknowledgements

      The Publisher acknowledges the work that the

      editors and compilers of these

      Old And Forgotten Fairy Tales

      did in compiling them in a time well before

      any electronic media was in use.

      * * * * * * *

      50% of the profit from the sale of this book

      will be donated to

      Children in Need.

      Contents

      Introduction

      Tom Tit Tot

      King O'toole And His Goose

      The Origin Of Loch Ness

      The Widow And Her Daughters

      Fair, Brown And Trembling

      The Perfidious Vizier

      The Frog's Skin

      Turtle-Dove, Sage-Cock And The Witch

      A Story About A Giant And The Cause Of Thunder

      The Parrot's Song

      The Emperor Tenchi

      The Beggar King

      The Foolish, Timid Rabbit

      Cradle Song

      The Charmed Ring

      The Thirteenth Son Of The King Of Erin

      The Minister Michi-Nobu Fujiwara

      The Monkey’s Fiddle

      The Daughter Of The Rose.

      The Gypsy And The Dragon

      How The Sacred Duck Got His Yellow Breast

      The Story Of Gelert

      Why The Kingfisher Always Wears A War Bonnet

      How Sun, Moon, And Wind Went Out To Dinner

      Twas The Night Before Christmas

      The Tail

      Introduction

      This book is compiled from old, rare and forgotten Fairy Tales and stories taken from books in Abela Publishing’s series "Folk-Lore, Fairy Tales, Myths and Legends from Around the World". A series created to raise funds for charities.

      Keeping true to our vision, the intent behind this compendium is a dedicated tool to raise funds for the UK’s Children In Need Appeal.

      In buying this book you will be giving in more than one way. Once to the Children in Need appeal and again, to yourself, as you read and enjoy stories not read for many a year. But should you perchance happen to read these stories to your children, nieces and nephews or your grand-children, you will be giving yet again.

      The words 'Fairy Tales' must accordingly be taken to include tales in which something 'fairy', something extraordinary occurs -- fairies, giants, dwarfs, speaking animals. One cannot imagine a child saying, 'Tell me a folk-tale', or 'Another nursery tale, please, grandma'.  It must also be taken to cover tales in which something magical happens. Mostly it is the comical stupidity of some of the actors, as is so common in moral tales.

      So take some time out and travel back to a period before television, or even radio for that matter, when families would gather around a crackling and spitting hearth and granddad or grandma  or an uncle or aunt would delight and captivate their audience with stories passed on to them from their mothers, fathers and grandparents.

      John Halsted

      Abela Publishing

      Tom Tit Tot

      (A Tale from Olde England)

      Once Upon a Time there was a woman, and she baked five pies. And when they came out of the oven, they were that overbaked the crusts were too hard to eat. So she says to her daughter:

      'Darter,' says she, 'put you them there pies on the shelf, and leave 'em there a little, and they'll come again.' - She meant, you know, the crust would get soft.

      But the girl, she says to herself: 'Well, if they'll come again, I'll eat 'em now.' And she set to work and ate 'em all, first and last.

      Well, come supper-time the woman said: 'Go you, and get one o' them there pies. I dare say they've come again now.'

      The girl went and she looked, and there was nothing but the dishes. So back she came and says she: 'Noo, they ain't come again.'

      'Not one of 'em?' says the mother.

      'Not one of' 'em,' says she.

      'Well, come again, or not come again,' said the woman, 'I'll have one for supper.'

      'But you can't, if they ain't come,' said the girl.

      'But I can,' says she. 'Go you, and bring the best of 'em.'

      'Best or worst,' says the girl, 'I've ate 'em all, and you can't have one till that's come again.'

      Well, the woman she was done, and she took her spinning to the door to spin, and as she span she sang:

      'My darter ha' ate five, five pies today.

      My darter ha' ate five, five pies today.'

      The king was coming down the street, and he heard her sing, but what she sang he couldn't hear, so he stopped and said:

      'What was that you were singing, my good woman?'

      The woman was ashamed to let him hear what her daughter had been doing, so she sang, instead of that:

      'My darter ha' spun five, five skeins today.

      My darter ha' spun five, five skeins today.'

      'Stars o' mine!' said the king, 'I never heard tell of anyone that could do that.' Then he said: 'Look you here, I want a wife, and I'll marry your daughter. But look you here,' says he, 'eleven months out of the year she shall have all she likes to eat, and all the gowns she likes to get, and all the company she likes to keep; but the last month of the year she'll have to spin five skeins every day, and if she don't I shall kill her.'

      'All right,' says the woman; for she thought what a grand marriage that was. And as for the five skeins, when the time came, there'd be plenty of ways of getting out of it, and likeliest, he'd have forgotten all about it.

      Well, so they were married. And for eleven months the girl had all she liked to eat, and all the gowns she liked to get, and all the company she liked to keep.

      But when the time was getting over, she began to think about the skeins and to wonder if he had 'em in mind. But not one word did he say about 'em, and she thought he'd wholly forgotten 'em.

      However, the last day of the last month he takes her to a room she'd never set eyes on before. There was nothing in it but a spinning-wheel and a stool. And says he: 'Now, my dear, here you'll be shut in tomorrow with some victuals and some flax, and if you haven't spun five skeins by the night, your head'll go off.'

      And away he went about his business.

      Well, she was that frightened, she'd always been such a gatless girl, that she didn't so much as know how to spin, and what was she to do tomorrow with no one to come nigh her to help her? She sat down on a stool in the kitchen, and law! how she did cry!

      However, all of a sudden she heard a sort of a knocking low down on the door. She upped and oped it, and what should she see but a small little black thing with a long tail. That looked up at her right curious, and that said:

      'What are you a-crying for?'

      'What's that to you?' says she.

      'Never you mind,' that said, 'but tell me what you're a-crying for.'

      'That won't do me no good if I do,' says she.

      'You don't know that,' that said, and twirled that's tail round.

      'Well,' says she, 'that won't do no harm, if that don't do no good,' and she upped and told about the pies, and the skeins, and everything.

      'This is what I'll do,' says the little black thing. 'I'll come to your window every morning and take the flax and bring it spun at night.'

      'What's your pay?' says she.

      That looked out of the corner of that's eyes, and that said:

      'I'll give you three guesses every night to guess my name, and if you haven't guessed it before the month's up you shall be mine.'

      Well, she thought, she'd be sure to guess that's name before the month was up. 'All right,' says she, 'I agree.'

      'All right,' that says, and law! how that twirled that's tail.

      Well, the next day, her husband took her into the room, and there was the flax and the day's food.

      'Now, there's the flax,' says he, 'and if that ain't spun up this night, off goes your head.' And then he went out and locked the door.

      He'd hardly gone, when there was a knocking against the window.

      She upped and she oped it, and there sure enough was the little old thing sitting on the ledge.

      'Where's the flax?' says he.

      'Here it be,' says she. And she gave it to him.

      Well, come the evening a knocking came again to the window. She upped and she oped it, and there was the little old thing with five skeins of flax on his arm.

      'Here it be,' says he, and he gave it to her.

      'Now, what's my name?' says he.

      'What, is that Bill?' says she.

      'Noo, that ain't,' says he, and he twirled his tail. 'Is that Ned?' says she.

      'Noo, that ain't,' says he,

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