Identifier: fairytalesofbrot00grim (find matches)
Title: The fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Grimm, Jacob, 1785-1863 Grimm, Wilhelm, 1786-1859 Rackham, Arthur, 1867-1939, ill
Subjects: Fairy tales Folklore -- Germany
Publisher: New York : Doubleday, Page
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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meaning of it ? She shook her head, rolled herself up, and went to sleep. From this time nobody asked the Cat to be sponsor. But when the winter came, and it grew very difficult to get food, the Mouse remembered their store, and said, Come, Cat, we will go to our pot of fat which we have saved up ; won't it be good now ? Yes, indeed ! answered the Cat; it will do you just as much good as putting your tongue out of the window. They started off to the church, and when they got there they found the fat-pot still in its place, but it was quite empty. Alas, said the Mouse, now I see it all. Everything has come to the light of day. You have indeed been a true friend ! You ate it all up when you went to be godmother. First Top-off, then Half-gone, then Hold your tongue, cried the Cat. Another word, and I'll eat you too. But the unfortunate Mouse had All-gone on its lips, and hardly had it come out than the Cat made a spring, seized the Mouse, and gobbled it up. Now, that's the way of the world, you see,
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The Goosegirl THERE was once an old Queen whose husband had been dead for many years, and she had a very beautiful daughter. When she grew up she was betrothed to a Prince in a distant country. When the time came for the maiden to be sent into this distant country to be married, the old Queen packed up quantities of clothes and jewels, gold and silver, cups and ornaments, and, in fact, everything suitable to a royal outfit, for she loved her daughter very dearly. She also sent a Waiting-woman to travel with her, and to put her hand into that of the bridegroom. They each had a horse. The Princess's horse was called Falada, and it could speak. When the jorn of departure came, the old Queen went to her bedroom, and with a sharp little knife cut her finger and made it bleed. Then she held a piece of white cambric under it, and let three drops of blood fall on to it. This cambric she gave to her daughter, and said, Dear child, take good care of this ; it will stand you in good stead on the journey. They

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