Belgian fairy tales

BOOKS BY
WILLIAM ELLIOT GRIFFIS

BELGIAN FAIRY TALES

Just such a book that the youngster will enjoy.

DUTCH FAIRY TALES

“A sheaf of delightful fairy stories from Holland, which abounds in legend and child-lore.”

THE FIRE-FLY’S LOVERS; and Other Fairy Tales of Old Japan

THE UNMANNERLY TIGER; and Other Korean Stories

Each volume 8vo. cloth. Illustrated in color.

THOMAS Y. CROWELL COMPANY

New York

The Silver Knight and the River Fairy

Original Title Page.

Belgian Fairy Tales

By
WILLIAM ELLIOT GRIFFIS
Author of “Belgium: The Land of Art,” “The Firefly’s Lovers,” “The Unmannerly Tiger,” “Dutch Fairy Tales,” etc.

NEW YORK
THOMAS Y. CROWELL COMPANY
PUBLISHERS

TO
KATHARINE AND ELLIOT
TEDDY AND MICKEY

CHAPTER		PAGE
I.	A Story for a Preface	1
II.	The War Storm and Baldy the Horse	10
III.	The Swan Maidens and the Silver Knight	17
IV.	A Congress of Belgian Fairies	31
V.	The Ogre in the Forest of Hazel Nuts	44
VI.	The Fairy of the Poppies	56
VII.	The Story of the Fleur-de-Lys	65
VIII.	The Irish Princess and Her Ship of Sod	72
IX.	Wine-Crust, the Blue-Beard of Flanders	82
X.	Lyderic, the Orphan	92
XI.	The Long Wappers, and Their Tricks	101
XII.	The Pilgrim Pigeons	110
XIII.	The Fairy Queen and the Carrier Doves	121
XIV.	The Far Famed Oriental	130
XV.	Puss Geiko and Her Travels	140
XVI.	The Marriage of the Fairies	150
XVII.	The Enchanted Windmill	159
XVIII.	Turk, Turban, Tulip and Dragon	166
XIX.	Up and Down and Up Again	178
XX.	The Golden Dragon of the Boringue	188
XXI.	The Red Caps and the Hunters	199
XXII.	The Split Tailed Lion	208
XXIII.	Rinaldo and His Wonderful Horse Bayard	215
XXIV.	The Belgian Bunny	225
XXV.	The Fairies of the Kitchen	235
XXVI.	A Society to Make Fairy Tales Come True	245

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