Table of Contents.

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I. Bearskin 1
 
II. The Water of Life 15
 
III. How One Turned his Trouble to Some Account 27
 
IV. How Three Went out into the Wide World 39
 
V. The Clever Student and the Master of Black Arts 49
 
VI. The Princess Golden-Hair and the Great Black Raven 63
 
VII. Cousin Greylegs, the Great Red Fox, and Grandfather Mole 77
 
VIII. One Good Turn Deserves Another 89
 
IX. The White Bird 105
 
X. How the Good Gifts were Used by Two 121
 
XI. How Boots Befooled the King 135
 
XII. The Step-mother 149
 
XIII. Master Jacob 161
 
XIV. Peterkin and the Little Grey Hare 175
 
XV. Mother Hildegarde 189
 
XVI. Which is Best 203
 
XVII. The Simpleton and his Little Black Hen 217
 
XVIII. The Swan Maiden 229
 
XIX. The Three Little Pigs and the Ogre 241
 
XX. The Staff and the Fiddle 253
 
XXI. How the Princess’s Pride was Broken 267
 
XXII. How Two Went into Partnership 279
 
XXIII. King Stork 291
 
XXIV. The Best that Life has to Give 305