PREFACE. (BY THE EDITOR.) FROM the same mass of papers from which I extracted, and was allowed to edit, a former Fairy Tale for the Nineteenth Century, I have been also allowed to take the following one, which was written to amuse a younger audience. I have only been asked not to publish it without some kind of excuse for wasting time on such light forms of teaching, though they are addressed to children; and this I will do in the following lines, which I have found among the same unpublished MSS. |