The Tales Of Mother Goose

"She met with Gaffer Wolf."

HEATH SUPPLEMENTARY READERS

THE TALES OF

Female parent GOOSE

Equally FIRST COLLECTED Past
CHARLES PERRAULT IN 1696

A NEW TRANSLATION BY CHARLES WELSH

Introduction past
M. Five. O'Shea

Illustrated Past D. J. Munro
AFTER DRAWINGS Past GUSTAVE DORÉ

D. C. HEATH AND COMPANY

CONTENTS

	Folio
Introduction by Professor M. 5. O'Shea	7
List of Illustrations	9
Cinderella, or the Piffling Glass Slipper	1
The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood	13
Little Thumb	29
The Master Cat, or Puss in Boots	45
Riquet of the Tuft	54
Blue Beard	66
The Fairy	75
Little Red Riding-Hood	80
Note	85

List OF ILLUSTRATIONS

"She met with Gaffer Wolf"	Frontispiece
	PAGE
"It went on very easily"	11
"Let me come across if I can exercise it"	15
"Slipped in under his father'south seat"	30
"The Marquis of Carabas is drowning!"	48
"I am exact in keeping my give-and-take"	63
"If yous open it, there'south zilch you may non expect from my anger"	67
"With all my heart, Goody"	75
"He fell upon the good adult female"	83

INTRODUCTION

What virtues exercise these stories possess that have kept them alive for then long a fourth dimension? They have to some degree stimulated and nourished qualities of supreme worth in individual and social life. With the young the struggle confronting greed and falsehood and pride and cowardice is a very real one, and situations in which these homely, fundamental traits are involved are total of interest and seriousness. Once again, to mature people the reward of well-doing and the punishment of evil behave portrayed in these stories are apt to seem too realistic, besides much also on the cut-and-stale pattern; merely it is far different with children. They have a very concrete sense of correct and wrong, and they demand a clear, explicit, tangible outcome for every sort of activeness. They must take physical, living examples, with the appropriate outcome of each, set before them.

A modest, faithful child will be strengthened in his good qualities; while one lacking these volition take them aroused, to some extent at whatever rate, past following Cinderella in her career. Arrogance and selfishness come to unhappy straits in this fancy globe, and they are likely to fare the aforementioned in the existent world; so it would be better to function company with them, and take up with gentleness and kindliness and faithfulness instead. And every one may be of some help to others if he be only of the right heed. The brother who thought himself faring desperately with simply a cat for a legacy learns betimes that even then small and plain helpless a animate being may exist of much service when he is rightly disposed. A person might call back niggling Thumb could accomplish nothing of value to whatever one, just he again teaches the kid that all depends on the willingness to exist of assistance, the good-heartedness, the fellow-feeling which 1 has for others.

In making this version afresh the translator has endeavored to retain the characteristics of the way of the early chap-volume versions, while evading the pompous, stilted linguistic communication and Johnsonian phraseology so stylish when they were first translated.

This work is a translation and has a separate copyright status to the applicable copyright protections of the original content.

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Translation:	This work was published before January 1, 1927, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years agone. Public domain Public domain false false