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    The Cat and the Mouse A Book of Persian Fairy Tales
    The Cat and the Mouse A Book of Persian Fairy Tales
    The Cat and the Mouse A Book of Persian Fairy Tales
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    The Cat and the Mouse A Book of Persian Fairy Tales

    By John R. (John Rea) Neill and Hartwell James

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    Release dateNov 27, 2013

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      The Cat and the Mouse A Book of Persian Fairy Tales - John R. (John Rea) Neill

      The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Cat and the Mouse, Edited by Hartwell James, Illustrated by John R. Neill

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      Title: The Cat and the Mouse

      A Book of Persian Fairy Tales

      Editor: Hartwell James

      Release Date: January 31, 2008 [eBook #24473]

      Language: English

      Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1

      ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE CAT AND THE MOUSE***

      E-text prepared by Michael Gray

      (Lost_Gamer@comcast.net)

      PERSIAN FAIRY TALES

      The Cat and the Mouse

      A Book of Persian

      Fairy Tales

      EDITED with an INTRODUCTION

      By HARTWELL JAMES

      WITH FORTY ILLUSTRATIONS

      By JOHN R. NEILL

      PHILADELPHIA

      HENRY ALTEMUS COMPANY

      Persia is rich in folk lore. For hundreds and hundreds of years the stories in this book, and many others as well, have been told to the wondering boys and girls of that country, who, as they hear them, picture their native land as one of roses and tulips, where beautiful fairies build their castles in the rosy morn, and black gnomes fly around in the darkness of midnight.

      A land, too, where the sun gleams like a fire above the blue mountains, and the water lilies are mirrored in the deep lakes. A land where the eyes of the tigers gleam through the reeds by the riverside, and dark-eyed, sunburned people are quick to love and quick to hate.

      The belief in the Ghool, or Old Man of the Desert, is still prevalent in Persia, which probably accounts for the popularity of the story of The Son of the Soap Seller. The other stories selected for this volume are great favorites, but the story of The Cat and the Mouse is perhaps the most popular of all.

      The frontispiece to this volume is a reduced facsimile of a whole page in a Persian book, showing both the pictures and the reading as they were published in Persia. The other illustrations for The Cat and the Mouse are copies of drawings by a Persian artist.

      H. J.

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