Chapter I: Front Matter

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THE FAIRY

GODMOTHER-IN-LAW

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The Fairy
Godmother-in-Law

_By_
Oliver Herford

_With Some Pictures
By the Author_

NEW YORK · Published by
Charles Scribner’s Sons

_Copyright, 1905, by_
OLIVER HERFORD

Published, November, 1905

THE TROW PRESS · NEW YORK

To M. H.

CONTENTS

PAGE

THE FAIRY GODMOTHER-IN-LAW 1

THE CHARM THAT FAILED 31

THE SILVER QUESTION 41

HOW THE LION BECAME KING 47

THE WAKEFUL PRINCESS 55

A MODERN DIALOGUE 65

THE HEART OF ICE 71

THE JUDGMENT OF BISHOP VALENTINE 75

THE BACHELOR GIRL 78

MEPHISTO 80

A CORNER IN CURLS 83

THE HYDRANT-HEADED MONSTER 93

TO MY TOY CANARY 95

THE HAND OF TIME 101

ENVOI 103

THE FAIRY

GODMOTHER-IN-LAW

_PREFACE_

_It is not always well to place
Unbounded Faith in Fairy Lore,
Believing that in every case
They all lived Happy evermore._

_Stranger than Fiction though we deem
The Truth, it does not follow, too,
That Fairy Tales, because they seem
Still Stranger, must be still more True._

_Far be it from me to assail
The Truthfulness of Fairy Writ,
But let us take a Well-Known Tale
And see what really came of it._