This text was prepared by Anita Muchilwa and Jyl Blackshaw, using as copytext, Czechoslovak Fairy Tales retold by Parker Fillmore, and illustrated by Jan Matulka, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1919.

Since this book was first published before 1923, it is in the public domain in the United States. By U.S. law, it entered the public domain 75 years after its first publication.

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