E-text prepared by Suzanne Shell, Janet Blenkinship, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (https://www.pgdp.net/) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 17034-h.htm or 17034-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/7/0/3/17034/17034-h/17034-h.htm) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/7/0/3/17034/17034-h.zip) ENGLISH FAIRY-TALES Retold by FLORA ANNIE STEEL Illustrated by Arthur Rackham First published by Macmillan & Co. 1918 [Illustration: Mr. and Mrs. Vinegar at home (page 190).] CONTENTS ST. GEORGE OF MERRIE ENGLAND THE STORY OF THE THREE BEARS TOM-TIT-TOT THE GOLDEN SNUFF-BOX TATTERCOATS THE THREE FEATHERS LAZY JACK JACK THE GIANT-KILLER THE THREE SILLIES THE GOLDEN BALL THE TWO SISTERS THE LAIDLY WORM TITTY MOUSE AND TATTY MOUSE JACK AND THE BEANSTALK THE BLACK BULL OF NORROWAY CATSKIN THE THREE LITTLE PIGS NIX NAUGHT NOTHING MR. AND MRS. VINEGAR THE TRUE HISTORY OF SIR THOMAS THUMB HENNY-PENNY THE THREE HEADS OF THE WELL MR. FOX DICK WHITTINGTON AND HIS CAT THE OLD WOMAN AND HER PIG THE WEE BANNOCK HOW JACK WENT OUT TO SEEK HIS FORTUNE THE BOGEY-BEAST LITTLE RED RIDING-HOOD CHILDE ROWLAND THE WISE MEN OF GOTHAM CAPORUSHES THE BABES IN THE WOOD THE RED ETTIN THE FISH AND THE RING LAWKAMERCYME MASTER OF ALL MASTERS MOLLY WHUPPIE AND THE DOUBLE-FACED GIANT THE ASS, THE TABLE, AND THE STICK THE WELL OF THE WORLD'S END THE ROSE TREE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR Mr. and Mrs. Vinegar at home "Somebody has been at my porridge, and has eaten it all up!" Tattercoats dancing while the gooseherd pipes The giant Cormoran was the terror of all the country-side Taking the keys of the castle, Jack unlocked all the doors The giant Galligantua and the wicked old magician transform the duke's daughter into a white hind "Tree of mine! O Tree of mine! Have you seen my naughty little maid?" "Fee-fi-fo-fum, I smell the blood of an Englishman" She went along, and went along, and went along And that is the story of Mr. and Mrs. Vinegar They thanked her and said good-bye, and she went on her journey Many's the beating he had from the broomstick or the ladle When Puss saw the rats and mice she didn't wait to be told "Well!" she chuckled, "I am in luck!" She sat down and plaited herself an overall of rushes and a cap to match The fisherman and his wife had no children, and they were just longing for a baby IN TEXT Headpiece--St. George of Merrie England When she came to St. George she started and laid her hand on her heart "Somebody has been lying in my bed,--and here she is!"