Happy Tales for Story Time

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1918. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... ACKNOWLEDGMENTS For permission to reprint, or to use in adapted form, in this volume, valuable copyrighted material, the following acknowledgments are made: To the Oxford University Press, for "The Little Gray Sheep." To Mrs. George Sterne Perry and The Century Company, for "The Kitten that Forgot How to Mew," republished from St. Nicholas. To Edward Abbott Parry, for "The Little Pig that Grumbled." To the publishers of The Outlook, for permission to reprint "The Mouse, the Cricket, and the Bumblebee," by Sydney Dayre. To The Pilgrim Press for "The Pony Engine," retold by Mabel Bragg, from a story by Jay Thomas Stocking. To Little Folks Magazine Company for "The Kitten's Christmas Wish." To Carolyn Sherwin Bailey and Milton Bradley Company, for "The Rag Doll's Christmas." To The Oxford University Press and Hodder and Stoughton, for permission to use the poem "Christmas Town," by Agnes Grozier Herbertson. To Kegan Paul, Trench, Triibner and Company, for "The Monkeys and the Moon," from Schiefner's Tibetan Tales, translated by Ralston. To D. Appleton and Company, for "Red Fox and Bunny Rabbit," adapted from a story by Joel Chandler Harris (copyright, 1880, 1895, by D. Appleton and Company). To J. H. Grawn, for "The Old Iron Pot." To the publishers of The Outlook, for "The Gingerbread Man," by Eva Rowland. To George H. Doran Company, for "The Gingerbread Man," rewritten from a poem published by Hodder and Stoughton. To the Grolier Society, for permission to use the adaptation of "The Blue Bird," by Maurice Maeterlinck, as it appears in The Book of 'Knowledge. ANIMAL TALES The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings Robert Loui3 Stevenson THE LITTLE GRAY SHEEP HERE was once a boy who lost ...