An Indian Brave

FOLK TALES

Every Child Should Know

EDITED BY

Hamilton Wright Mabie

THE WHAT-EVERY-CHILD-
SHOULD-KNOW-LIBRARY

Published by
DOUBLEDAY, DORAN & CO., INC., for
THE PARENTS' INSTITUTE, INC.
Publishers of "The Parents' Magazine"
9 EAST 40th STREET, NEW YORK

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The editor and publishers wish to express their appreciation to thefollowing firms for permission to use the material indicated:

To Messrs. G.P. Putnam's Sons for "Why the Sea is Salt," "The Lad WhoWent to the North Wind," "The Lad and the Deil," and "Ananzi and theLion," by Sir George Webbe Dasent, D.C.L.; to the Macmillan Company, NewYork, for "The Grateful Foxes" and "The Badger's Money," by A.B.Mitford; to Messrs. Macmillan & Company, London, for "The Origin ofRubies," by Rev. Lal Behari Day; to Messrs. Charles Scribner's Sons for"The Dun Horse," by George Bird Grinnell; to Messrs. Little, Brown &Company for "The Peasant Story of Napoleon," by Honoré de Balzac; toMessrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Company for "Why Brother Bear Has No Tail,"by Joel Chandler Harris, and for the following selections from "SixtyFolk Tales, from Exclusively Slavonic Sources," translated by A.H.Wratislaw, M.A.:—"Long, Broad, and Sharpsight," "Intelligence andLuck," "George and the Goat," "The Wonderful Hair," "The Dragon and thePrince," and "The Good Children."

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