Years and years ago at the very beginning of time, when the world had just been made, there was no night. It was day all the time. No one had ever heard of sunrise or sunset, starlight or moonbeams. There were no night birds, nor night beasts, nor night flowers. There were no lengthening shadows,…
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How the Tiger Got His Stripes (Fairy Tales from Brazil, 1917) by Elsie Spicer Eells
http://ia600500.us.archive.org/13/items/fairy_tales_brazil_1006_librivox/fairytalesfrombrazil_04_eells.mp3 Once upon a time, ages and ages ago, so long ago that the tiger had no stripes upon his back and the rabbit still had his tail, there was a tiger who had a farm. The farm was very much overgrown with underbrush and the owner sought a workman to clear the ground for…
THE CELESTIAL SISTERS (The Indian Fairy Book, 1869) BY CORNELIUS MATHEWS
Waupee, or the White Hawk, lived in a remote part of the forest, where animals abounded. Every day he returned from the chase with a large spoil, for he was one of the most skillful and lucky hunters of his tribe. His form was like the cedar; the fire of youth beamed from his eye;…
SNOW-WHITE AND ROSY-RED (FAIRY TALES FROM ALL NATIONS) by Torgen Moe and P. Asbiörnson
http://ia600502.us.archive.org/13/items/childrensshortworks12_1107_librivox/childrensshortworks012_07_snowwhiteandrosered_bh.mp3 In a far-distant land, there reigned a queen, who was one day driving in a sledge over the new fallen snow, when, as it chanced, she was seized with a bleeding at her nose, which obliged her to alight. As she stood leaning against the stump of a tree, and gazed on her crimson…
How the Toad Got His Bruises (Fairy Tales from Brazil, 1917) by Elsie Spicer Eells
Once upon a time, ages and ages ago, the toad had a smooth skin. In those days he was a great gad about. He never could be found in his own house. If any one had a party he was sure to go, no matter how far away from home it was held, or how…
THE GLASS DOG (American Fairy Tales) By L. FRANK BAUM
THE GLASS DOG http://ia600502.us.archive.org/13/items/childrensshortworks12_1107_librivox/childrensshortworks012_01_glassdog_pr.mp3 An accomplished wizard once lived on the top floor of a tenement house and passed his time in thoughtful study and studious thought. What he didn’t know about wizardry was hardly worth knowing, for he possessed all the books and recipes of all the wizards who had lived before him; and,…