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The Russian Grandmother's Wonder Tales

Friedrich S. Krauss and Louise Seymour Houghton

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. . .rk in the world to get in, and once in, he had hardly begun his meal when the swine broke out in fearful squealings and gruntings. Whiteling, at the [21]house-door, no sooner heard the noise than he began to bark and whine with all his might, waking all the family with his noise.

“What makes our Whiteling howl so?” they said. “We must go out and see what the trouble is.”

So all the family went out, and hearing the squealing of the swine, they hastened to the pigpen. Peeping in, they saw the Wolf and set upon him with clubs and fists, belaboring him so soundly that he barely escaped with a whole skin.

Waiting till the family had returned to bed, Isegrim crept back, and seizing Whiteling by the throat, “Aha!” he cried, “I have caught you now. You pledged me your word not to bark, and you broke your promise. No, I’ll never forgive you. Just look at me once, what a plight I’m in.”

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- Lisa - Dec 23, 2016

No illustrations. This contains stories woven together as tales told to a little boy during his daily life, which is an effective device that ties together this collection of stories with varying characters, lands, and times. True to the Russian tale, these often end abruptly and contain mythical be

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- Jude - Aug 06, 2020

The Russian Grandmother's Wonder Tales by Louise Seymour Houghton (1906) The was a rescue book at our local transfer station and a prize find! I was glad to learn that a reprint had been made in 2007, but it would be hard to duplicate the feel of reading the original version with its much read and d

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