This text was prepared by Lisa Ripperton, using as copytext, the Dover edition of The Blue Fairy Book, edited by Andrew Lang, London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1889.

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.

Numerous black and white illustrations, by H. J. Ford and G. P. Jacomb Hood, are included in the text.

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