# The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm (Rackham)

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The King could not contain himself for joy
The Fairy Ta‍of the
| ‍ | Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. |
| ‍ | Translated by Mrs. Edgar Lucas |
Doubleday, Page & Co. New York1909
Contents
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| The Golden Bird | 1 |
| Hans in Luck | 10 |
| Jorinda and Joringel | 17 |
| The Bremen Town Musicians | 21 |
| Old Sultan | 26 |
| The Straw, the Coal, and the Bean | 29 |
| Briar Rose | 31 |
| The Dog and the Sparrow | 36 |
| The Twelve Dancing Princesses | 41 |
| The Fisherman and his Wife | 47 |
| The Wren and the Bear | 57 |
| The Frog Prince | 60 |
| The Cat and Mouse in Partnership | 64 |
| The Goosegirl | 67 |
| The Adventures of Chanticleer and Partlet | 74 |
| Rapunzel | 80 |
| Fundevogel | 84 |
| The Valiant Tailor | 88 ​ |
| Hansel and Grethel | 98 |
| The Mouse, the Bird, and the Sausage | 108 |
| Mother Hulda | 111 |
| Red Riding Hood | 116 |
| The Robber Bridegroom | 120 |
| Tom Thumb | 125 |
| Rumpelstiltskin | 133 |
| Clever Grethel | 138 |
| The Old Man and his Grandson | 141 |
| The Little Peasant | 142 |
| Fred and Kate | 149 |
| Sweetheart Roland | 156 |
| Snowdrop | 161 |
| The Pink | 171 |
| Clever Elsa | 177 |
| The Jew Among the Thorns | 182 |
| Ashenputtel | 188 |
| The White Snake | 197 |
| The Wolf and the Seven Kids | 202 |
| The Queen Bee | 206 |
| The Elves and the Shoemaker | 209 |
| The Wolf and the Man | 211 ​ |
| The Turnip | 213 |
| Clever Hans | 217 |
| The Three Languages | 223 |
| The Fox and the Cat | 227 |
| The Four Clever Brothers | 229 |
| The Lady and the Lion | 235 |
| The Fox and the Horse | 241 |
| The Blue Light | 244 |
| The Raven | 250 |
| The Golden Goose | 257 |
| The Water of Life | 264 |
| The Twelve Huntsmen | 271 |
| The King of the Golden Mountain | 274 |
| Doctor Know-all | 281 |
| The Seven Ravens | 284 |
| The Marriage of Mrs. Reynard | 288 |
| The Salad | 292 |
| The Youth Who Could Not Shudder | 300 |
| King Thrushbeard | 312 |
| Iron Hans | 317 |
PREFATORY NOTE BY THE ARTIST
At intervals since then I have been at work on the original drawings, partially or entirely re-drawing some of them in colour, adding new ones in colour and in black and white, and generally overhauling them as a set, supplementing and omitting, with a view to the present edition.
Of the forty coloured illustrations, many are elaborations of the earlier black and white drawings or are founded on them. The frontispiece, and those facing pp. 34, 70, 94, 104, 116, 118, and 190 are entirely new, and several of the text illustrations also have not been published before. The remaining illustrations in the text have been reconsidered and worked on again to a greater or less degree.
List of Illustrations
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| The Prince carried off the beautiful Maiden on the Golden Horse | 7 |
| Just then a butcher came along the road, trundling a young pig in a wheel-barrow | 13 |
| At last the old woman came back, and said in a droning voice: ‘Greeting to thee, Zachiel!’ | 19 |
| A short time after they came upun a Cat, sitting in the road, with a face as long as a wet week | 22 |
| The Ass brayed, the Hound barked, the Cat mewed, and the Cock crowed | 24 |
| ‘The Thirteenth Fairy’ | 32 |
| But round the castle a hedge of briar roses began to grow up. | 34 |
| On the road he met a Sparrow | 36 |
| On the opposite side of the Lake stood a splendid brightly-lighted Castle | 45 |
| There was once a Fisherman, who lived with his Wife in a miserable little hovel close to the sea | 47 |
| ‘Flounder, Flounder it the sea, Prythee, hearken unto me’ | 55 |
| She did not go once but many times, backwards and forwards to the well | 85 |
| ‘Wait a bit, and I’ll give it you!’ So saying, he struck out at them mercilessly | 89 ​ |
| Hansel picked up the glittering white pebbles and filled his pockets with them | 100 |
| ‘Stupid goose!’ cried the Witch, ‘The opening is big enough; you can see that I could get into it myself’ | 106 |
| The Mouse had to carry water, while the Sausage did the cooking | 109 |
| The Bird took the wood and flew sadly home with it | 110 |
| At last she came to a little house, out of which an old woman was looking | 112 |
| So the lazy girl went home, but she was quite covered with pitch | 114 |
| They hurried away as quickly as they could | 122 |
| Tom Thumb | 126 |
| Then all at once the door sprang open, and in stepped a little Mannikin | 134 |
| Round the fire an indescribably ridiculous little man was leaping, hopping on one leg, and singing | 136 |
| The Bailiff sprang into the water with a great splash, and the whole party plunged in after him | 147 |
| Kate ran after him, and chased him a good way over the fields | 150 |
| The Maiden fetched the magic wand, and then she took her step-sister’s head, and dropped three drops of blood from it | 157 |
| ‘Mirror, Mirror op the wall, Who is fairest of us all?’ | 162 |
| In the evening the seven Dwarfs came back | 164 |
| The scullions brought live coals, which he had to eat till the flames poured out of his mouth | 173 |
| When she saw the pick-axe just above her head, Clever Elsa burst into tears | 179 ​ |
| The Jew was forced to spring up and begin to dance | 184 |
| Dancing as hard as he could | 185 |
| The Three Sleeping Princesses | 208 |
| So the rich Brother had to put his Brother‘s Turnip into a cart, and have it taken home | 214 |
| When he got home he had the rope in his hand, but there was nothing at the end of it | 221 |
| On the way he passed a swamp, in which a number of Frogs were croaking | 224 |
| The Cat crept stealthily up to the topmost branch | 227 |
| They found the Princess still on the rock, but the Dragon was asleep with his head on her lap | 233 |
| The poor Horse was very sad, and went into the forest to get a little shelter from the wind and weather | 241 |
| Then the Horse sprang up, and dragged the Lion away behind him | 243 |
| Before long the Witch came by riding at a furious pace on a tom cat | 246 |
| The Golden Castle af Stromberg | 253 |
| One day he saw three Robbers fighting | 255 |
| There stands an old tree; cut it down, and you will find something at the roots | 258 |
| So now there were seven people running behind Simpleton and his Goose | 259 |
| And so they followed up hill and down dale after Simpleton and his Goose | 260 |
| The King could no longer withhold his daughter | 263 ​ |
| When she entered she met a Dwarf | 286 |
| The Ravens coming home | 287 |
| Does the gentleman wear red breeches, and has he a pointed muzzle? | 291 |
| But the Old Woman was a witch | 293 |
| He tied them all together and drove them along till came to mill | 298 |
| Crowds of black cats and dogs swarmed out of every corner | 306 |
| She immediately clutched at his cap to pull it off; but be held it on with both hands | 321 |
| He called three times, ‘Iron Hans,’ as loud as be could. | 322 |
List of Coloured Illustrations
The King could not contain himself for joy Frontispiece :
| Facing page ||
| Away they flew over stock and stone, at such a pace that his hair whistled in the wind | 2 |
| By day she made herself into a cat | 16 |
| . . . Or a screech owl | 18 |
| Once there was a poor old woman who lived in a village | 28 |
| The young Prince said, ‘I am not afraid; I am determined to go and look upon the lovely Briar Rose‘ | 34 |
| At the third sting the Fox screamed, and down went his tail between his legs | 58 |
| So she seized him with two fingers, and carried him upstairs | 62 |
| The Cat stole away behind the city walls to the church | 66 |
| Alas! dear Falada, there thou hangest | 70 |
| Blow, blow, little breeze, And Conrad‘s hat seize | 72 |
| Now we will go up the hill and have a good feast before the squirrel carries off all the nuts | 74 |
| When he went over the wall he was terrified to see the Witch before him | 80 ​ |
| The Witch climbed up | 82 |
| Pulling the piece of soft cheese out of his pocket, be squeezed it till the moisture ran out | 90 |
| They worked themselves up into such a rage thut they tore up trees by the roots, and hacked at each other till they both fell dead | 94 |
| All at once the door opened and an old, old Woman, supporting herself on a crutch, came hobbling out | 104 |
| Hansel put out a knuckle-bone, and the old Woman, whose eyes were dim, could not see, and thought it was his finger, and she was much astonished that he did mot get fat | 106 |
| When she got to the wood, she met a Wolf | 116 |
| ‘O Grandmother, what big ears you have got,’ she said | 118 |
| At last she reached the cellar, and there she found an old, old woman with a shaking head | 122 |
| When Tom had said good-bye to his Father they went away with him | 128 |
| Then he ran after him, still holding the carving-knife, and cried, ‘Only one, only one!’ | 140 |
| The Old Man had to sit by himself, and ate his food from a wooden bowl | 142 |
| The quicker he played, the higher she had to jump | 158 |
| The Dwarfs, when they came in the evening, found Snowdrop lying on the ground | 168 |
| Ashenputtel goes to the ball | 190 |
| The Fishes, in their joy, stretched up their heads above the water, and promised to reward him | 198 |
| The Seven Kids and their mother capered and danced round the spring in their joy | 204 ​ |
| The Ducks which he had once saved, dived and brought up the key from the depths | 208 |
| So the four Brothers took their sticks in their hands, bade their Father good-bye, and passed out of the town gate | 228 |
| The King’s only daughter had been carried off by a Dragon | 229 |
| She went away accompanied by the Lions | 236 |
| Good Dwarf, can you not tell me where my brothers are? | 266 |
| The Son made a circle, and his Father and he took their places within it, and the little black Mannikin appeared | 274 |
| Once upon a time poor Peasant, named Crabb, was taking a load of wood drawn by two oxen to the town for sale | 280 |
| The good little Sister cut of her own tiny finger, fitted it into the lock, and succeeded in opening it | 284 |
| But they said one after another: ‘Halloa! whe bas been eating off my plate? Who has been drinking out of my cup?’ | 286 |
| Then the Youth took the axe and split the anvil with one blow, catching in the Old Man’s beard at the same time | 310 |
| The Beggar took her by the hand and led her away | 314 |
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