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MORE ENGLISH FAIRY TALES
This book was especially republished to raise funds for these charities & many more...
33% of the publishers profit from the sale of this book will be donated to charities.
A GREAT READ FOR KIDS!
Joseph Jacobs first volumeEnglish Fairy Tales [1890]did not exhaust the scanty remains of traditional English folktales. Most of the forty-four tales that appear in More English Fairy Tales had never before appeared in print and are mostly not well known to modern audiences.
In compiling More English Fairy Tales [1894], Joseph Jacobs flouted the Florklorists creed, choosing to present stories that would fill children's imaginations with bright trains of images, Vividly Painted Princesses, Pied Pipers, Pots of Gold, Giants, Speaking Cats, Kings, Hoybahs, Wise Men, Washerwomen, and more overflow from this volume; all bound by the common threads of basic moral lessons. These tales are further embellished by the illustrations of the equally famous John D. Batten.
Many of the tales were recorded verbatim from storytellers. They are by no means in an authorised form, and are considered by purists to be vulgar or, rough and unrefined, if only because they make use of archaic and colloquial English. In the times following Jacobs original printing, the literary establishment objected to the use of such archaic colloquialisms. These tales were told for generations in a form that used these dialects and these vulgar words for effect. However, the traditional form makes these stories all the richer in todays modern setting.
We invite you to curl up with this volume and be transported back in time to when England had a hundred or more local dialectsa time when the words Lawkamercyme and Noddle were commonplace.
33% of the publishers profit from the sale from this book will be donated to the Princes Trust.
Excerpt from MORE ENGLISH FAIRY TALES
THE PEDLAR OF SWAFFHAM
Once Upon a time, In the old days when London Bridge was lined with shops from one end to the other, and salmon swam under the arches, there lived at Swaffham, in Norfolk, a poor pedlar. He'd much ado to make his living, trudging about with his pack at his back and his dog at his heels, and at the close of the day's labour was but too glad to sit down and sleep. Now it fell out that one night he dreamed a dream, and therein he saw the great bridge of London town, and it sounded in his ears that if he went there he should hear joyful news. He made little count of the dream, but on the following night it came back to him, and again on the third night.
Then he said within himself, 'I must needs try the issue of it,' and so he trudged up to London town. Long was the way and right glad was he when he stood on the great bridge and saw the tall houses on right hand and left, and had glimpses of the water running and the ships sailing by. All day long he paced to and fro, but he heard nothing that might yield him comfort. And again on the morrow he stood and he gazed -- he paced afresh the length of London Bridge, but naught did he see and naught did he hear.
Now the third day being come as he still stood and gazed, a shopkeeper hard by spoke to him. 'Friend,' said he, 'I wonder much at your fruitless standing. Have you no wares to sell?'
'No, indeed,' quoth the pedlar.
'And you do not beg for alms?'
'Not so long as I can keep myself.'
'Then what, I pray thee, dost thou want here, and what may thy business be?'
'Well, kind sir, to tell the truth, I dreamed that if I came hither, I should hear good news.'
Right heartily did the shopkeeper laugh.
'Nay, thou must be a fool to take a journey on such a silly errand. I'll tell thee, poor silly country fellow, that I myself dream too o' nights, and that last night I dreamt myself to be in Swaffham, a place clean unknown to me, but in Norfolk if I mistake not, and methought I was in an orchard behind a pedlar's house, and in that orchard was a great oak tree. Then me-seemed that if I digged I should find beneath that tree a great treasure. But think you I'm such a fool as to take on me a long and wearisome journey and all for a silly dream. No, my good fellow, learn wit from a wiser man than thyself. Get thee home, and mind thy business.'
When the pedlar heard this he spoke no word, but was exceeding glad in himself, and returning home speedily, digged underneath the great oak tree, and found a prodigious great treasure. He grew exceeding rich, but he did not forget his duty in the pride of his riches. For he built up again the church at Swaffham, and when he died they put a statue of him therein all in stone with his pack at his back and his dog at his heels.
And there it stands to this day to witness if I lie.
Table of Contents for MORE ENGLISH FAIRY TALES
| The Pied Piper |
| Hereafterthis |
| The Golden Ball |
| My Own Self |
| Black Bull of Norroway |
| Yallery Brown |
| Three Feathers |
| Sir Gammer Vans |
| Tom Hickathrift |
| The Hedley Kow |
| Gobborn Seer |
| Lawkamercyme |
| Tattercoats |
| The Wee Bannock |
| Johnny Gloke |
| Coat o' Clay |
| The Three Cows |
| The Blinded Giant |
| Scrapefoot |
| The Pedlar of Swaffham |
| The Old Witch |
| The Three Wishes |
| The Buried Moon |
| A Son of Adam |
| The Children in the Wood |
| The Hobyahs |
| A Pottle O' Brains |
| The King of England and his Three Sons |
| King John and the Abbot of Canterbury |
| Rushen Coatie |
| The King O' The Cats |
| Tamlane |
| The Stars in the Sky |
| News! |
| Paddock, Mousie, and Ratton |
| The Little Bull-Calf |
| The Wee, Wee Mannie |
| Habetrot and Scantlie Mab |
| Old Mother Wiggle-Waggle |
| Catskin |
| Stupid's Cries |
| The Lambton Worm |
| The Wise men of Gotham |
| Princess of Canterbury |
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