The poor duckling was scorned by all 270 He came to a large moor 275 And the cat said, ‘Can you purr?’ 280 And every one said, ‘The new one is the best’ 283 Beware of him, dear child! 285 THE END 289 LIST OF COLOURED ILLUSTRATIONS ‘The bud opened into a full-blown flower, in the middle of which lay a beautiful child’ _Frontispiece_ ‘She stood at the door and begged for a piece of barley-corn’ _Facing page_ 56 ‘Yes! I will go with thee, said Tommelise, and she seated herself on the bird’s back’ ” 64 ‘The swing moves and the bubbles fly upward with bright ever-changing colours’ ” 84 ‘He did not come to woo her, he said, he had only come to hear the wisdom of the princess’ ” 94 ‘Round and round they went, such whirling and twirling’ ” 126 ‘She put the statue in her garden’ ” 134 ‘With the rest of the children of air, soared high above the rosy cloud’ ” 162 ‘We will bring him two little ones, a brother and a sister’ ” 170 ‘Then began the nightingale to sing’ ” 176 ‘The peasant’s wife sat on Sundays at the door of her cottage reading her hymn-book’ ” 190 ‘Princesses he found in plenty, but whether they were real princesses it was impossible for him to decide’ ” 214 ‘She sat down one day and made out of some old pieces of red cloth a pair of little shoes’ _Opposite page_ 218 ‘The Swineherd scolded and the rain poured down’ ” 244 ‘She sat the live-long day upon the roof of her palace, expecting him’ ” 256 ‘He jumped down from the old man’s lap and danced around him on the floor’ ” 286 [Illustration: THE:MARSH:KING’S:DAUGHTER] [Illustration: SHE UNDERSTOOD THE SPEECH OF BIRDS] THE MARSH KING’S DAUGHTER