Produced by Suzanne Shell, Melissa Er-Raqabi and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net HOUSEHOLD STORIES GRIMM [Illustration: THE SLEEPING BEAUTY "--AT LAST HE CAME TO THE TOWER & OPENED THE DOOR OF THE LITTLE ROOM WHERE ROSAMOND LAY."] HOUSEHOLD STORIES, FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE BROS: GRIMM: TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN BY LUCY CRANE; AND DONE INTO PICTURES BY WALTER CRANE DOVER PUBLICATIONS, INC. NEW YORK This new Dover edition, first published in 1963, is an unabridged republication of the work first published by Macmillan and Company in 1886. _Standard Book Number: 486-21080-4_ _Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 64-16327_ Manufactured in the United States of America Dover Publications, Inc. 180 Varick Street New York, N. Y. 10014 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS HALF-TITLE. THE SLEEPING BEAUTY. _Frontispiece_ TITLE-PAGE. PAGE THE RABBIT'S BRIDE, Headpiece 1 Tailpiece 2 SIX SOLDIERS OF FORTUNE, Headpiece 3 Tailpiece 8 CLEVER GRETHEL, Headpiece 9 Tailpiece 11 THE DEATH OF THE HEN, Headpiece 12 Tailpiece 13 HANS IN LUCK, Headpiece 14 Tailpiece 19 THE GOOSE GIRL _To face page_ 20 Headpiece 20 Tailpiece 25 THE RAVEN, Headpiece 26 Tailpiece 31 THE FROG PRINCE, Headpiece 32 Tailpiece 36 CAT AND MOUSE IN PARTNERSHIP, Headpiece 37 Tailpiece 39 THE WOLF AND THE SEVEN KIDS, Headpiece 40 Tailpiece 42 FAITHFUL JOHN _To face page_ 43 Headpiece 43 Tailpiece 51 THE WONDERFUL MUSICIAN, Headpiece 52 Tailpiece 55 THE TWELVE BROTHERS, Headpiece 56 Tailpiece 61 THE VAGABONDS, Headpiece 62 Tailpiece 64 THE BROTHER AND SISTER, Headpiece 65 Tailpiece 71 RAPUNZEL _To face page_ 72 Headpiece 72 Tailpiece 75