"If his wife didn"t do a day"s work in her life, She should ne"er be ruled by he."
A later reading, now generally accepted, avoids the bad grammar by changing to direct discourse.
CHANGE ABOUT
There was an old man, who lived in a wood, As you may plainly see; He said he could do as much work in a day, As his wife could do in three.
With all my heart, the old woman said, If that you will allow, To-morrow you"ll stay at home in my stead, And I"ll go drive the plough:
But you must milk the Tidy cow, For fear that she go dry; And you must feed the little pigs That are within the sty; And you must mind the speckled hen, For fear she lay away; And you must reel the spool of yarn, That I spun yesterday.
The old woman took a staff in her hand, And went to drive the plough: The old man took a pail in his hand, And went to milk the cow; But Tidy hinched, and Tidy flinched, And Tidy broke his nose, And Tidy gave him such a blow, That the blood ran down to his toes.
High! Tidy! ho! Tidy! high!
Tidy! do stand still; If ever I milk you, Tidy, again, "Twill be sore against my will!
He went to feed the little pigs That were within the sty; He hit his head against the beam, And he made the blood to fly.
He went to mind the speckled hen, For fear she"d lay astray, And he forgot the spool of yarn His wife spun yesterday.
So he swore by the sun, the moon, and the stars, And the green leaves on the tree, "If my wife doesn"t do a day"s work in her life, She shall ne"er be ruled by me."
SECTION III
FAIRY STORIES--TRADITIONAL TALES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
I. STANDARD GENERAL COLLECTIONS
Jacobs, Joseph, _English Fairy Tales_, _More English Fairy Tales_, _Celtic Fairy Tales_, _More Celtic Fairy Tales_, _Indian Fairy Tales_, _Europa"s Fairy Tales_.
Lang, Andrew, _The Blue Fairy Book_, _The Red Fairy Book_, _The Green Fairy Book_, _The Yellow Fairy Book_.
The Perrault stories are included in the first.
Many other volumes named by colors (_Violet_, _Orange_, etc.) were made under Mr. Lang"s direction, but these four include the cream.
II. NATIONAL COLLECTIONS
ENGLISH: Campbell, J. F., _Popular Tales of the West Highlands_.
4 vols.
Halliwell, J. O., _Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales_.
Hartland, E. S., _English Fairy and Folk Tales_.
GERMAN: Grimm, J. and W., _Kinder und Hausmarchen_ (_Household Tales_).
Translated by Edgar Taylor as _Grimm"s Popular Stories_ (55 stories, 1823-1827), and ill.u.s.trated by George Cruikshank. Best reprint is in one volume with introduction by John Ruskin.
Translated complete by Margaret Hunt (2 vols., 1884), Introduction by Andrew Lang.
Other excellent translations of selected stories by Mrs. Lucas and by Lucy Crane.
INDIAN: Frere, Mary, _Old Deccan Days_.
Knowles, J. H., _Folk Tales of Kashmir_.
Steel, Flora Annie, _Tales of the Punjab_. (Notes by Captain R. C. Temple.) Stokes, Maive, _Indian Fairy Tales_.
IRISH: Curtin, J., _Hero Tales of Ireland_.
Graves, A. P., _The Irish Fairy Book_.
Hyde, Douglas, _Beside the Fire_.
Joyce, P. W., _Old Celtic Romances_.
Wilde, Lady Constance, _Ancient Irish Legends_.
Yeats, W. B., _Irish Fairy Tales_.
ITALIAN: Crane, T. F., _Italian Popular Tales_.
NORSE: Asbjornsen, P. C., and Moe, J., _Norske Folke-eventyr_ (_Norwegian Folk Tales_, 1842-1844, with subsequent additions).
Translated by Sir George Webbe Dasent in _Popular Tales from the Norse_ and _Tales of the Fjeld_; by H. L. Braekstad in _Round the Yule Log_ and _Fairy Tales from the North_.
SLAVIC: Bain, R. Nesbit, _Cossack Fairy Tales_, _Russian Folk Tales_.
III. THE SCIENCE OF FOLKLORE
c.o.x, Roalfe, _Cinderella_. (Introduction by Lang.) Clouston, W. A., _Popular Tales and Fictions_. 2 vols.
Gomme, G. L., _Folklore as an Historical Science_.
Hartland, E. S., _The Science of Fairy Tales_.
Keightly, Thomas, _Fairy Mythology_.
Lang, Andrew, _Perrault"s Popular Tales_. (Introduction.) MacCulloch, J. A., _The Childhood of Fiction_.
IV. PEDAGOGY
Adler, Felix, _The Moral Instruction of Children_, pp. 63-79.
Kready, Laura F., _The Study of Fairy Tales_. (Indispensable.) MacClintock, P. L., _Literature in the Elementary School_, pp.
92-112.
McMurry, Charles, _Special Method in Reading_, pp. 47-69.
SECTION III: FAIRY STORIES--TRADITIONAL TALES