Henny Penny : HENNY-PENNY ONE day Henny-penny was picking up corn in the cornyard when--whack!--something hit her upon the head. 'Goodness gracious me!' said Henny-penny; 'the sky's a-going to fall; I must go and tell the king.' So she went along and she went along and she went along till she met Cocky-locky...
The Magpie's Nest : THE MAGPIE'S NEST Once upon a time when pigs spoke rhyme And monkeys chewed tobacco, And hens took snuff to make them tough, And ducks went quack, quack, quack, O! ALL the birds of the air came to the magpie and asked her to teach them how to build nests. For the magpie is the cleverest bird of all...
The Cauld Lad Of Hilton : THE CAULD LAD OF HILTON AT Hilton Hall, long years ago, there lived a Brownie that was the contrariest Brownie you ever knew. At night, after the servants had gone to bed, it would turn everything topsyturvy, put sugar in the salt cellars, pepper into the beer, and was up to all kinds of pranks. It...
Jack The Giant Killer : JACK THE GIANT KILLER WHEN good King Arthur reigned, there lived near the Land's End of England, in the county of Cornwall, a farmer who had one only son called Jack. He was brisk and of ready, lively wit, so that nobody or nothing could worst him. In those days the Mount of Cornwall was kept by...
Tom Tit Tot : TOM TIT TOT ONCE upon a time there was a woman, and she baked five pies. And when they came out of the oven, they were that overbaked the crusts were too hard to eat. So she says to her daughter: 'Darter,' says she, 'put you them there pies on the shelf, and leave 'em there a little, and they'll...
Johnny Cake : JOHNNY-CAKE ONCE upon a time there was an old man, and an old woman, and a little boy. One morning the old woman made a Johnny-cake, and put it in the oven to bake. 'You watch the Johnny-cake while your father and I go out to work in the garden.' So the old man and the old woman went out and beg...
The Three Sillies : THE THREE SILLIES ONCE upon a time there was a farmer and his wife who had one daughter, and she was courted by a gentleman. Every evening he used to come and see her, and stop to supper at the farmhouse, and the daughter used to be sent down into the cellar to draw the beer for supper. So one...
Cap O' Rushes : CAP O' RUSHES WELL, there was once a very rich gentleman, and he had three daughters, and he thought he'd see how fond they were of him. So he says to the first, 'How much do you love me, my dear?' 'Why,' says she, 'as I love my life.' 'That's good,' says he. So he says to the second, 'How much do...
Mouse And Mouser : MOUSE AND MOUSER THE Mouse went to visit the Cat, and found her sitting behind the hall door, spinning. MOUSE What are you doing, my lady, my lady, What are you doing, my lady? CAT (sharply) I'm spinning old breeches, good body, good body, I'm spinning old breeches, good body. MOUSE Long may you...
The Old Woman And Her Pig : THE OLD WOMAN AND HER PIG AN old woman was sweeping her house, and she found a little crooked sixpence. 'What,' said she, 'shall I do with this little sixpence? I will go to market, and buy a little pig.' As she was coming home, she came to a stile: but the piggy wouldn't go over the stile. She...
The Cat And The Mouse : THE CAT AND THE MOUSE The cat and the mouse PIay'd in the malt-house: THE cat bit the mouse's tail off. 'Pray, Puss, give me my tail. No,' says the cat, 'I'll not give you your tail, till you go to the cow, and fetch me some milk.' First she leapt, and then she ran, Till she came to the cow...
The Laidly Worm Of Spindleston Heugh : THE LAIDLY WORM OF SPINDLESTON HEUGH IN Bamborough Castle once lived a king who had a fair wife and two children, a son named Childe Wynd and a daughter named Margaret. Childe Wynd went forth to seek his fortune, and soon after he had gone the queen his mother died. The king mourned her long...
Preface : PREFACE WHO says that English folk have no fairy tales of their own? The present volume contains only a selection out of some 140, of which I have found traces in this country. It is probable that many more exist. A quarter of the tales in this volume have been collected during the last ten years...
Nix Nought Nothing : NIX NOUGHT NOTHING THERE once lived a king and a queen as many a one has been. They were long married and had no children; but at last a baby boy came to the queen when the king was away in the far countries. The queen would not christen the boy till the king came back, and she said: 'We will just...
The Well Of The World's End : THE WELL OF THE WORLD'S END ONCE upon a time, and a very good time it was, though it wasn't in my time, nor in your time, nor anyone else's time, there was a girl whose mother had died, and her father married again. And her stepmother hated her because she was more beautiful than herself, and she...
The Red Ettin : THE RED ETTIN THERE was once a widow that lived on a small bit of ground, which she rented from a farmer. And she had two sons; and by and by it was time for the wife to send them away to seek their fortune. So she told her eldest son one day to take a can and bring her water from the well, th...
Fairy Ointment : FAIRY OINTMENT DAME Goody was a nurse that looked after sick people, and minded babies. One night she was woke up at midnight, and when she went downstairs, she saw a strange squinny-eyed, little ugly old fellow, who asked her to come to his wife who was too ill to mind her baby. Dame Goody didn't...
Titty Mouse And Tatty Mouse : TITTY MOUSE AND TATTY MOUSE TITTY MOUSE and Tatty Mouse both lived in a house, Titty Mouse went a leasing and Tatty Mouse went a leasing, So they both went a leasing. Titty Mouse leased an ear of corn, and Tatty Mouse leased an ear of corn. So they both leased an ear of corn. Titty Mouse made...
Earl Mar's Daughter : EARL MAR'S DAUGHTER ONE fine summer's day Earl Mar's daughter went into the castle garden, dancing and tripping along. And as she played and sported she would stop from time to time to listen to the music of the birds. After a while as she sat under the shade of a green oak-tree she looked up...
Teeny Tiny : TEENY-TINY ONCE upon a time there was a teeny-tiny woman who lived in a teeny-tiny house in a teeny-tiny village. Now, one day this teeny-tiny woman put on her teeny-tiny bonnet, and went out of her teeny-tiny house to take a teeny-tiny walk. And when this teeny-tiny woman had gone a teeny-tiny way...
Mr Fox : MR FOX LADY MARY was young, and Lady Mary was fair. She had two brothers, and more lovers than she could count. But of them all, the bravest and most gallant was a Mr Fox, whom she met when she was down at her father's country house. No one knew who Mr Fox was; but he was certainty brave...
Whittington And His Cat : WHITTINGTON AND HIS CAT IN the reign of the famous King Edward III there was a little boy called Dick Whittington whose father and mother died when he was very young. As poor Dick was not old enough to work, he was very badly off; he got but little for his dinner, and sometimes nothing at all...
The Master And His Pupil : THE MASTER AND HIS PUPIL THERE was once a very learned man in the north country who knew all the languages under the sun, and who was acquainted with all the mysteries of creation. He had one big book bound in black calf and clasped with iron, and with iron corners, and chained to a table which w...
The Story Of The Three Little Pigs : THE STORY OF THE THREE LITTLE PIGS Once upon a time when pigs spoke rhyme And monkeys chewed tobacco, And hens took snuff to make them tough, And ducks went quack, quack, quack, O! THERE was an old sow with three little pigs, and as she had not enough to keep them, she sent them out to seek their...
Title Page : ENGLISH FAIRY TALES BY JOSEPH JACOBS [b. 1854, D. 1916] ILLUSTRATED BY JOHN D. BATTEN London: David Nutt [1890] Scanned And Redacted By Phillip Brown. Additional Formatting And Proofing By J. B. Hare. This Text Is In The Public Domain. This File May Be Used For Any Non-commerical Purpose, Provided...
The Story Of The Three Bears : THE STORY OF THE THREE BEARS ONCE upon a time there were Three Bears, who lived together in a house of their own, in a wood. One of them was a Little, Small, Wee Bear; and one was a Middle-sized Bear, and the other was a Great, Huge Bear. They each had a pot for their porridge, a little pot...
The Golden Arm : THE GOLDEN ARM THERE was once a man who travelled the land all over in search of a wife. He saw young and old, rich and poor, pretty and plain, and could not meet with one to his mind. At last he found a woman, young, fair, and rich, who possessed a right arm of solid gold. He married her at once...
Childe Rowland : CHILDE ROWLAND Childe Rowland and his brothers twain Were playing at the ball, And there was their sister Burd Ellen In the midst, among them all. Childe Rowland kicked it with his foot And caught it with his knee; At last as he plunged among them all O'er the church he made it Ike. Burd Ellen...
Jack Hannaford : JACK HANNAFORD THERE was an old soldier who had been long in the wars--so long, that he was quite out-at-elbows, and did not know where to go to find a living. So he walked up moors, down glens, till at last he came to a farm, from which the good man had gone away to market. The wife of the farmer...
Lazy Jack : LAZY JACK ONCE upon a time there was a boy whose name was Jack, and he lived with his mother on a common. They were very poor, and the old woman got her living by spinning, but Jack was so lazy that he would do nothing but bask in the sun in the hot weather, and sit by the corner of the hearth...
How Jack Went To Seek His Fortune : HOW JACK WENT TO SEEK HIS FORTUNE ONCE on a time there was a boy named Jack, and one morning he started to go and seek his fortune. He hadn't gone very far before he met a cat. 'Where are you going, Jack?' said the cat. 'I am going to seek my fortune.' 'May I go with you?' 'Yes,' said Jack, '...
Mr Miacca : MR MIACCA TOMMY GRIMES was sometimes a good boy, and sometimes a bad boy; and when he was a bad boy, he was a very bad boy. Now his mother used to say to him: 'Tommy, Tommy, be a good boy, and don't go out of the street, or else Mr Miacca will take you.' But still when he was a bad boy he would go...
Binnorie : BINNORIE ONCE upon a time there were two king's daughters who lived in a bower near the bonny mill-dams of Binnorie. And Sir William came wooing the elder and won her love, and plighted troth with glove and with ring. But after a time he looked upon the younger sister, with her cherry cheeks...
The Ass, The Table And The Stick : THE ASS, THE TABLE AND THE STICK A LAD named Jack was once so unhappy at home through his father's ill-treatment, that he made up his mind to run away and seek his fortune in the wide world. He ran, and he ran, until he could run no longer, and then he ran right up against a little old woman who...
The Three Heads Of The Well : THE THREE HEADS OF THE WELL LONG before Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, there reigned in the eastern part of England a king who kept his court at Colchester. In the midst of all his glory, his queen died, leaving behind her an only daughter, about fifteen years of age, who for her beauty...
Introductory Notes : INTRODUCTORY NOTES NOTES AND REFERENCES FOR ENGLISH FAIRY TALES THE Fairy Tales of England have been treated in rather a step-motherly fashion. That they once existed in tolerable numbers there are still traces in the library list of Captain Cox, published by the New Shakespeare Society, among...
Notes : NOTES I. TOM TIT TOT SOURCE Contributed by Mrs Walter-Thomas "(ne "Fison) to the 'Suffolk Notes and Queries' of the "Ipswich Journal, "1877, and reprinted by Mr E. Clodd in a paper on 'The Philosophy of Rumpelstiltskin' in "Folk-Lore Journal, "vii, 138--43. I have reduced the Suffolk dialect...
Untitled : Title Page Preface Tom Tit Tot The Three Sillies The Rose-Tree The Old Woman and Her Pig How Jack Went to Seek his Fortune Mr Vinegar Nix Nought Nothing Jack Hannaford Binnorie Mouse and Mouser Cap O' Rushes Teeny-Tiny Jack and the Beanstalk The Story of the Three Little Pigs The Master and His...
The History Of Tom Thumb : THE HISTORY OF TOM THUMB IN the days of the great King Arthur there lived a mighty magician, called Merlin, the most learned and skilful enchanter the world has ever seen. This famous magician, who could take any form he pleased, was travelling about as a poor beggar, and being very tired he...
Jack And His Golden Snuff Box : JACK AND HIS GOLDEN SNUFF-BOX ONCE upon a time,, and a very good time it was, though it was neither in my time nor in your time nor in anyone else's time, there was an old man and an old woman, and they had one son, and they lived in a great forest. And their son never saw any other people in his...
Jack And The Beanstalk : JACK AND THE BEANSTALK THERE was once upon a time a poor widow who had an only son named Jack, and a cow named Milky-white. And all they had to live on was the milk the cow gave every morning, which they carried to the market and sold. But one morning Milky-white gave no milk, and they didn't know...
The Rose Tree : THE ROSE TREE THERE was once upon a time a good man who had two children: a girl by a first wife, and a boy by the second. The girl was as white as milk, and her lips were like cherries. Her hair was like golden silk, and it hung to the ground. Her brother loved her dearly, but her wicked...
Mr Vinegar : MR VINEGAR MR and Mrs Vinegar lived in a vinegar bottle. Now, one day, when Mr Vinegar was from home, Mrs Vinegar, who was a very good housewife, was busily sweeping her house, when an unlucky thump of the broom brought the whole house cutter-clatter, cutter-clatter, about her ears. In an agony...
Molly Whuppie : MOLLY WHUPPIE ONCE upon a time there was a man and a wife had too many children,, and they could not get meat for them, so they took the three youngest and left them in a wood. They travelled and travelled and could never see a house. It began to be dark, and they were hungry. At last they saw...
The Fish And The Ring : THE FISH AND THE RING ONCE upon a time, there was a mighty baron in the North Countrie who was a great magician and knew everything that would come to pass. So one day, when his little boy was four years old, he looked into the Book of Fate to see what would happen to him. And to his dismay, he...
The Strange Visitor : THE STRANGE VISITOR A WOMAN was sitting at her reel one night; And still she sat, and still she reeled, and still she wished for company. In came a pair of broad broad soles, and sat down at the fireside; And still she sat, and still she reeled, and still she wished for company. In came a pair...
Master Of All Masters : MASTER OF ALL MASTERS A GIRL once went to the fair to hire herself for servant. At last a funny-looking old gentleman engaged her, and took her home to his house. When she got there, he told her that he had something to teach her, for that in his house he had his own names for things. He said...
Kate Crackernuts : KATE CRACKERNUTS ONCE upon a time there was a king and a queen, as in many lands have been. The king had a daughter, Anne, and the queen had one named Kate, but Anne was far bonnier than the queen's daughter, though they loved one another like real sisters. The queen was jealous of the king's...

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English Fairy Tales

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