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THE CHILDREN’S
LIBRARY
THE
LITTLE GLASS MAN
From a wash drawing by James Pryde
“FAT HEZEKIEL”
THE
LITTLE GLASS MAN
AND OTHER STORIES
FROM THE GERMAN
OF
WILHELM HAUFF
ILLUSTRATED
NEW YORK: MACMILLAN & CO.
LONDON: T. FISHER UNWIN
1894
CONTENTS
| PAGE | |
|---|---|
| How the Stories were found. By L. Eckenstein | 1 |
| The Little Glass Man | 15 |
| The Story of the Caliph Stork | 83 |
| The Story of Little Muck | 100 |
| Nose, the Dwarf | 130 |
HOW THE STORIES WERE FOUND
BY L. ECKENSTEIN
Fairy Queen sat in her officedrinking afternoon tea. FairyQueen, thinking how she couldplease children best, had turnedpublisher. She had come to London, shehad taken an office up a steep flight of stairs,and had sent out her fairies all over Europein search of children’s books. Off they hadgone in all directions, and so many manuscriptsand books had been sent in or broughtback by them, that Fairy Queen publishedvolume after volume of the Children’s Library,and still there remained a lot