English Fairy Tales illustrated by Arthur Rackham

ENGLISH FAIRY-TALES retold by Flora Annie Steel and illustrated by Arthur Rackham was first published 

by Macmillan & Co. 1918.

Mr. and Mrs. Vinegar at home (Frontispiece)

When she came to St. George she started and laid her hand on
      her heart.

THE STORY OF THE THREE BEARS

 "Somebody has been at my porridge, and has eaten it all up!"

TOM-TIT-TOT

"What is that you are singing, my good woman?"

A small, little, black Thing with a long tail

Away That flew into the dark, and she never saw it no more

THE GOLDEN SNUFF-BOX

They brought the Castle of the golden pillars

TATTERCOATS

Tattercoats dancing while the gooseherd pipes

LAZY JACK 

Jack found it hard to hoist the donkey on his shoulders

JACK THE GIANT-KILLER

The giant Cormoran was the terror of all the country-side

So, taking the keys of the castle, he unlocked all the doors and set
free three beauteous ladies who, tied by the hair of their heads, he
found almost starved to death. 

"Odds splutter hur nails!" cried the giant, not to be outdone.
      "Hur can do that hurself!"

"Ah! Cousin Jack! Kind cousin Jack! This is heavy news
indeed"

Now he had not gone far when he came upon one,
seated on a huge block of timber near the entrance to a dark cave.

...a messenger arrived to say that one Thunderdell, a huge
giant with two heads, having heard of the death of his kinsman, was on
his way from the northern dales to be revenged, and was already within a
mile or two of the castle...

... the country folk with their flocks and herds
flying before him like chaff before the wind.

The giant Galligantua and the wicked old magician
transform the duke's daughter into a white hind.

He heard the bogles striving under the bed.

THE TWO SISTERS

"Tree of mine! O Tree of mine! Have you seen my naughty
little maid?"

JACK AND THE BEANSTALK

 As he spoke he drew out of his pocket five beans.

"Fee-fi-fo-fum, I smell the blood of an Englishman."

Jack seized the axe and gave a great chop at the
beanstalk.

CATSKIN

She went along, and went along, and went along.

THE THREE LITTLE PIGS

So he huffed and he puffed and he blew the house in.

So he huffed and he puffed and he blew the house in.

Well! he huffed and he puffed ... but he could not
      blow the house down.

MR. AND MRS. VINEGAR

At last he flew into a violent rage and flung his stick
at the bird.

And that is the story of Mr. and Mrs. Vinegar.

THE TRUE HISTORY OF SIR THOMAS THUMB

 A spider one day attacked him.

HENNY-PENNY

"I will go first and you come after, Henny-penny,
Cocky-locky Ducky-daddles, Goosey-poosey, and Turkey-lurkey"

So she escaped.

 THE THREE HEADS OF THE WELL

They thanked her and said good-bye, and she went on her journey.

The thorns closed in around her so that she was all scratched
      and torn.

DICK WHITTINGTON AND HIS CAT

Dick finds that the streets of London are not paved with
gold. 

  Many's the beating he had from the broomstick or the ladle

Dick Whittington hears Bow Bells.

When Puss saw the rats and mice she didn't wait to be told. 

THE BOGEY-BEAST

 "Well!" she chuckled, "I am in luck!"

They both met together upon Nottingham bridge

"A vengeance on her!" said they. "We did not make our
hedge high enough"

 He took out the cheeses and rolled them down the hill

And they left the eel to drown

The hare ran on along the country way.

A courtier came riding by, and he did ask what they were
seeking.

CAPORUSHES

 She sat down and plaited herself an overall of rushes and a cap
      to match.

THE ASS, THE TABLE, AND THE STICK 

The fisherman and his wife had no children, and they were just
      longing for a baby.

A funny-looking old gentleman engaged her and took her
home.

 White-faced simminy has got a spark of hot cockalorum on its
      tail