Illustrations

And as he came stepping along around a bush of blackthorn . . . he met a hare.

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“How shall we run?”

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They trudged along the high-road.

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They saw that the Princess was now asleep . . . and that her head lay so close to the Dragon that her hair was spread out like yellow silk upon its horny scales.

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So off they went together.

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At this the cock . . . yelled after him as he had never yelled before.

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“Turn-a-gain-Whit-ting-ton . . . Lord-Mayor-of-London-Town.”

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The King was pleased beyond measure.

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A necklace that would go round a slender neck.

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She was made to live in a dark, stone-flagged kitchen with nothing but rats, mice, and cockroaches for company.

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Looking in their wigs and powder more like bunched-up fantastic monkeys than human beings.

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Straight out of the ball-room she scampered . . . down the marble staircase.

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Every morning the soles of the twelve Princesses’ slippers were . . . worn through to the very welts.

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“Alas, sisters, a hand is clutching at me!”

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She couldn’t even pass a puddle without peeping down into it at her apple cheeks and yellow hair.

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“They are looking at me as I go along . . . in my bright red hood.”

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“I’ve come all the way by myself in my new red riding-hood!”

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He climbed and climbed and he climbed.

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In the distance . . . stood a huge, louring Castle.

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Still the Ogre came after him . . . yelling as he ran.

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The farmer stood and marvelled.

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Everyone marvelled.

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The fox led him . . . through the woods and over the crest of the hill . . . till they at last came down to a mill.

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Danced a little dance all to himself in the moonlight.

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“What a dreadful, dreadful, dreadful thing it would be!”

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He was the silliest silly of all silly sillies.

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Bluebeard’s Castle.

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“How strange . . . that such an old bachelor as Bluebeard was . . . should have all these fine females’ clothes!”

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Fatima could make no answer; she could only stare at him, quaking all over.

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“Looking-glass, looking-glass on the wall, Who is the fairest of women all?”

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Towards evening, the Seven Dwarfs came home.

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She showed her pretty stay-laces.

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This chamber was built high aloft above the topmost roof of the palace.

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The Princess . . . bandaged her eyes with three silk scarves.

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“Well I never, you are a handsome creature!”

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“Hi, there! Stop! Stop! . . . Just one! Only one!”

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She sat there weeping.

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All that night the Queen lay wide awake, a glimmering light beside her bed.

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“A bargain’s a bargain.”

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Glancing over her shoulder, she turned the key.

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He made his way over the rotting drawbridge, and went into the castle.

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For a while he could see nothing.

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She rose up softly, and . . . changed over one by one the necklaces.

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“Woe betide ye, Molly Whuppie, If ye e’er come back again!”

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For years she pined in vain.

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“I come, Rapunzel!”

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