PREFATORY NOTE.
The stories and illustrations in this book originally appeared in “Little Folks” between 1896 and 1902, during which period most of the numbers of the magazine contained some of my drawings.
Many of the drawings so appearing have already been republished in book form included, often, in volumes containing illustrations by other hands.
The publishers have felt that some of those drawings that have not hitherto been republished are worthy of a longer life and a better presentation than was possible in the magazine, and they have collected these in the present book with the stories they were designed to illustrate.
I have been glad to assist in the selection of the drawings included in this volume.
ARTHUR RACKHAM.
Hampstead, May, 1907.
