Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Sankar Viswanathan, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net [Illustration: The three-headed monster belched forth flame] What Every Child Should Know LIBRARY TALES OF WONDER EVERY CHILD SHOULD KNOW Edited by KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN and NORA ARCHIBALD SMITH Published by DOUBLEDAY, DORAN & CO., INC., for THE PARENTS' INSTITUTE, INC. Publishers of "THE PARENTS' MAGAZINE" _52 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York_ COPYRIGHT, 1909, BY DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY * * * * * PUBLISHER'S NOTE _Doubleday, Page & Company wish to make acknowledgment of their indebtedness to the following publishers_: _G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York and London, for permission to use "The Five Queer Brothers," "The Two Melons" and "What the Birds Said," from "Chinese Nights' Entertainment," by Adele M. Fielde; "The Lac of Rupees," from "Indian Fairy Tales," by Joseph Jacobs; "The Sea-maiden," from "Celtic Fairy Tales," by Joseph Jacobs; "The Black Horse" and "The Farmer of Liddesdale," from "More Celtic Fairy Tales," by Joseph Jacobs; and "The Buried Moon," from "More English Fairy Tales," by Joseph Jacobs._ _T. Y. Crowell & Company, New York, for permission to use "The Grateful Crane" from "The Fire-fly's Lovers," by William Elliot Griffis._ _Joseph McDonough, Albany, for permission to use "Little Surya Bai," "The Jackal, the Barber and the Brahmin," "Truth's Triumph," "The Raksha's Palace," and "Panch-Phul Ranee," from "Old Deccan Days," by M. Frere._ _Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, for permission to use "The Deserter," "Steelpacha" and "The Watch-tower Between Earth and Heaven," from "The Russian Grandmother's Wonder Tales," by L. S. Houghton._ _Macmillan & Company, London, for permission to use "The Grateful Foxes" and "The Badger's Money," from "Tales of Old Japan," by A. B. Mitford._ _The Review of Reviews Company, London, for permission to use "The Feast of Lanterns" and "The Lake of Gems," from "Books for the Bairns," edited by W. T. Stead._ _We also wish to express our appreciation to Mr. Seumas MacManus for the use of his stories, "The Amadan of the Dough," "Hookedy-Crookedy," "Billy Beg and the Bull," and "The Queen of the Golden Mines," from "Donegal Fairy Stories," and "In Chimney Corners," published by us._ * * * * * CONTENTS INTRODUCTION I WONDER (_Scandinavian_) WHAT THE BIRDS SAID (_Chinese_) THE SMITH AND THE FAIRIES (_Gaelic_) THE GRATEFUL CRANE (_Japanese_) LITTLE SURYA BAI (_Southern Indian_) THE STORKS AND THE NIGHT OWL (_Persian_) THE FIVE QUEER BROTHERS (_Chinese_) THE LAC OF RUPEES (_Southern Indian_)