The Pink Fairy Book

Produced by Jana Srna, Matthew Wheaton and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) TRANSLATED FROM A J GLINSKI By MAUDE ASHURST BIGGS LONDON: JOHN LANE THE BODLEY HEAD NEW YORK JOHN LANE COMPANY 1920 _The Mayflower Press, Plymouth, England._ William Brendon & Son, Ltd. These are selections from a large collection made by A. J. Glinski, printed at Wilna in 1862. These fairy tales come from a far past and may even date from primitive Aryan times. They represent the folklore current among the peasantry of the Eastern provinces of Poland, and also in those provinces usually known as White Russia.