This text was prepared by Nate Ripperton, using as copytext, Grimm's Household Tales with the Author's Notes, translated from the German and edited by Margaret Hunt, with an introduction by Andrew Lang, M.A., in two volumes, London: George Bell and Sons, York Street, Covent Garden, 1884.

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