Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 29021-h.htm or 29021-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/29021/29021-h/29021-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/29021/29021-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive/American Libraries. See http://www.archive.org/details/fairytalesofchar00perr THE FAIRY TALES OF CHARLES PERRAULT Illustrated by Harry Clarke With an Introduction by Thomas Bodkin George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd. 2 & 3 Portsmouth Street Kingsway London. W.C.2. First published August 1922 CONTENTS. PAGE INTRODUCTION 9 LITTLE RED RIDING-HOOD 21 THE FAIRY 27 BLUE BEARD 35 THE SLEEPING BEAUTY IN THE WOOD 47 THE MASTER CAT; OR, PUSS IN BOOTS 67 CINDERILLA; OR, THE LITTLE GLASS SLIPPER 77 RIQUET WITH THE TUFT 93 LITTLE THUMB 109 THE RIDICULOUS WISHES 127 DONKEY-SKIN 137 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE CINDERILLA AND HER PRINCE _Frontispiece_ "HE ASKED HER WHITHER SHE WAS GOING" _facing_ 24 "'WHAT IS THIS I SEE?' SAID HER MOTHER" 28 "'AM I COME HITHER TO SERVE YOU WITH WATER, PRAY?'" _facing_ 30 "'WHAT, IS NOT THE KEY OF MY CLOSET AMONG THE REST?'" 36 "THIS MAN HAD THE MISFORTUNE TO HAVE A BLUE BEARD" _facing_ 38 "AT THIS VERY INSTANT THE YOUNG FAIRY CAME OUT FROM BEHIND THE HANGINGS" 48 THE PRINCE ENQUIRES OF THE AGED COUNTRYMAN _facing_ 54 "HE SAW, UPON A BED, THE FINEST SIGHT WAS EVER BEHELD" _facing_ 56 "'I WILL HAVE IT SO,' REPLIED THE QUEEN, 'AND WILL EAT HER WITH SAUCE ROBERT'" 59 "THE MARQUIS GAVE HIS HAND TO THE PRINCESS, AND FOLLOWED THE KING, WHO WENT UP FIRST" _facing_ 74 "AWAY SHE DROVE, SCARCE ABLE TO CONTAIN HERSELF FOR JOY" 78 "ANY ONE BUT CINDERILLA WOULD HAVE DRESSED THEIR HEADS AWRY" _facing_ 80 "SHE LEFT BEHIND ONE OF HER GLASS SLIPPERS, WHICH THE PRINCE TOOK UP MOST CAREFULLY" 87 "THE PRINCE BELIEVED HE HAD GIVEN HER MORE WITH THAN HE HAD RESERVED FOR HIMSELF" 99 "RIQUET WITH THE TUFT APPEARED TO HER THE FINEST PRINCE UPON EARTH" _facing_ 104