Cinderella!

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Illustration: Cinderella. The Three Bears’ Picture Book. Illustrated by Walter Crane. George Routledge and Sons: London & New York.

“Now fetch the mouse-trap from the shelf – there are six mice inside;”

She changed them to six prancing steeds, all harnessed side by side.

“Now fetch the rat-trap,” and there was therein a large black rat,

So he was made a coachman, with silk stockings and cocked hat.

Six lizards happening to be there, all ready to the hand,

Were changed to powdered footmen, staff and bouquet all so grand.

“Now, Cinderella, here’s your coach to take you to the ball.”

“Not as I am,” she cried; “like this I cannot go at all.”

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Cinderella.

The Three Bears’ Picture Book.

Illustrated by Walter Crane.

George Routledge and Sons: London & New York.

Rats Are Medicine!

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Illustration: Better Again. Our Dear Dogs. Father Tuck’s Happy Hour Series. Raphael Tuck & Sons, Ltd.: London-Paris-Berlin-New York-Montreal. Printed in the Fine Art Works in Saxony. Publishers to Their Majesties The King & Queen, & Her Majesty Queen Alexandra. Ca 1910.

Better Again.

It’s all right, I am happy to say. We had not to send for the dog-doctor after all. Bob is better, indeed he is quite well, somebody called out “Rats,” and up he jumped, and flew out of his kennel, and was off with Jim, the fox terrier on a rat hunt. My brother says he was shamming. Perhaps you don’t know what that is, it means that he was pretending to be ill, but I don’t think so myself, I believe that the very name of rats is like a medicine to Bob, and does him good.


Our Dear Dogs.

Father Tuck’s Happy Hour Series.

Raphael Tuck & Sons, Ltd.: London-Paris-Berlin-New York-Montreal. Printed in the Fine Art Works in Saxony.

Publishers to Their Majesties The King & Queen, & Her Majesty Queen Alexandra. Ca 1910.

Lady Fall Is Passing By!

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Illustration: Lady Fall’s Harvest Ride A YEAR WITH THE FAIRIES. Written by Anna M. Scott. Illustrations by M. T. Ross. Published by P. F. Volland & Co.: Chicago. 1914.

Lady Fall’s Harvest Ride

 On harvest chariot piled sky high

Lady Fall is passing by

With garnered fruits and wealth untold

Of royal purple mixed with gold.

 

To Lady Summer’s farewell nod

She waves a plume of Goldenrod,

And as the birds fly south again,

She cries, “Good-bye, auf Wiedersehen.”

 

Lady Fall’s Harvest Ride

A YEAR WITH THE FAIRIES.

Written by Anna M. Scott.

Illustrations by M. T. Ross.

Published by P. F. Volland & Co.: Chicago. 1914.

 

Fairy Tailors Measure Tom Thumb!

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Illustration: Tom Thumb & The Tailors. ONCE UPON A TIME. Edited by Katharine Lee Bates. Illustrated by Margaret Evans Price. Rand McNally & Company: Chicago & New York. 1921.

“TOM THUMB & THE FAIRY TAILORS”

One summer morning when the wee baby was only a few days old, the queen of the fairies flew in at the window of the room where he lay. She touched his cheek lightly with a butterfly kiss and gave him the name of Tom Thumb.  She then ordered her fairy tailors to make for Tom a wonderful suit, his hat of an oak leaf, his shirt of a spider’s web, his jacket of thistledown, his trousers of apple-rind, and his shoes of the skin of a mouse, nicely tanned, with the hair inside.

Illustration: Tom Thumb & The Tailors. ONCE UPON A TIME. Edited by Katharine Lee Bates. Illustrated by Margaret Evans Price. Rand McNally & Company: Chicago & New York. 1921.

ONCE UPON A TIME.

Edited by Katharine Lee Bates.

Illustrated by Margaret Evans Price.

Rand McNally & Company: Chicago & New York. 1921.

The Pygmies were constantly at war with the Cranes!

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Illustration from Tanglewood Tales in THE PYGMIES. "They were constantly at war with the cranes."

The Pygmies had but one thing to trouble them in the world. They were constantly at war with the cranes, and had always been so, ever since the long-lived Giant could remember. From time to time, very terrible battles had been fought in which sometimes the little men won the victory, and sometimes the cranes. According to some historians, the Pygmies used to go to the battle, mounted on the backs of goats and rams; but such animals as these must have been far too big for Pygmies to ride upon; so that, I rather suppose, they rode on squirrelback, or rabbitback, or ratback, or perhaps got upon hedgehogs, whose prickly quills would be very terrible to the enemy. However this might be, and whatever creatures the Pygmies rode upon, I do not doubt that they made a formidable appearance, armed with sword and spear, and bow and arrow, blowing their tiny trumpet, and shouting their little war cry. They never failed to exhort one another to fight bravely, and recollect that the world had its eyes upon them; although, in simple truth, the only spectator was the Giant Antaeus, with his one, great, stupid eye in the middle of his forehead.

“THE PYGMIES.”

Tanglewood Tales

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Illustrations By:  Milo Winter

Rand McNally & Company:  Chicago & New York.  1913.

Cinderella – Pumpkin is a Coach, Mice are prancing steeds, Rat is the coachman, Lizards are footmen!

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Illustration: Cinderella Walter Crane - Coach to take you to the ball.
“Now, Cinderella, here’s your coach to take you to the ball.”
The Three Bears’ Picture Book
Illustrated by Walter Crane
Publisher: George Routledge and Sons: London & New York. Ca 1890-1899.

“Now fetch the mouse-trap from the shelf – there are six mice inside;”

She changed them to six prancing steeds, all harnessed side by side.

“Now fetch the rat-trap,” and there was therein a large black rat,

So he was made a coachman, with silk stockings and cocked hat.

Six lizards happening to be there, all ready to the hand,

Were changed to powdered footmen, staff and bouquet all so grand.

“Now, Cinderella, here’s your coach to take you to the ball.”

“Not as I am,” she cried; “like this I cannot go at all.”