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Tales of Laughter: A Third Fairy Book (Classic Reprint)
Tales of Laughter A Third Fairy Book - Classic Reprint Author:Kate Douglas Wiggin Excerpt from Tales of Laughter: A Third Fairy Book — The McClure Company wish to make acknowledgment of their indebtedness to the following publishers: — G.P. Putnam's Sons, for permission to use "The Greedy Cat", "Father Bruin in the Corner," "The Pancake," "The Death of Chanticleer," "Reynard Wants to Taste Horse Flesh," "Bruin and Reynard Partn... more »ers," "Pork and Honey" and "Slip Root: Catch Reynard's Foot," from Tales from the Field; "The Most Frugal of Men," "The Moon Cake," "The Ladle that Fell from the Moon," "The Young Head of the Family," and "The Dreadful Boar," from Chinese Nights Entertainment.
The American Book Company, for permission to use "Little Tuppen," from Fairy Stories and Fables.
Little, Brown & Company, for permission to use "The Story of the Four Little Children who Went Round the World," from Edward Lear's Nonsense Books.
F.A. Stokes Company, for permission to use "Little Black Mingo," "The Lad and the Fox," "The Old Woman and the Tramp," "The Cook and the Crested Hen," and "The Old Woman and the Fish," from Fairy Tales from the Swedish; "Ones Own Children Always Prettiest," and "The Princess whom Nobody Could Silence," from Fairy Tales from the Far North.
F. Warne & Company, for permission to use "The Money Box," "The Happy Family," and "It is Quite True," from Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales.
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