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"I'm thinking that Smythe is a fool, and Murray is a blockhead."

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Mr. Gladstone and his set of blockheads seem quite impervious to reason, and even the constituencies of England seem to lack information.

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Very well; and there is something for yourself, blockhead."

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"Even if he calls you 'liar' and 'blockhead'?"

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"'Yes?' you blockhead!" shrieked the master.

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"Gratitude for having been called 'idiot,' 'dog,' and 'blockhead' nearly all my life!

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"You blockhead, those are the tapers in my friend's sickroom!

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A stupid fellow; a blockhead.

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A blockhead; a stupid fellow; a dolt.

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BLOCKHEAD Block"head' (, n. Etym: [Block + head.]

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The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.

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BLOCKHEADISM Block"head*ism, n. Defn: That which characterizes a blockhead; stupidity.

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[R.] "The bookful blockhead."

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Whate'er these book-learned blockheads say, Solon's the veriest fool in all the play.

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A blockhead; a dunce.

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CITTERN-HEAD Cit"tern-head', n. Defn: Blockhead; dunce; -- so called because the handle of a cittern usually ended with a carved head.

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CLODPATE Clod"pate', n. Defn: A blockhead; a dolt.

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Hence: A blockhead; a lout.

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Defn: A blockhead.

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Defn: A stupid person; a fool; a blockhead.

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Defn: A heavy, stupid fellow; a blockhead; a numskull; an ignoramus; a dunce; a dullard.

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DULLHEAD Dull"head', n. Defn: A blockhead; a dolt.

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Defn: A dunce; a numskull; a blockhead.

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Defn: A blockhead; a dolt; a fool.

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G. goff a blockhead, Gr.

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Defn: A lazy person; a blockhead.

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HALF-WIT Half"-wit', n. Defn: A foolish; a dolt; a blockhead; a dunce.

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A conceited dolt; a perverse blockhead.

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Defn: A blockhead.

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Defn: A dunce; a blockhead.

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LOB Lob, n. Etym: [W. llob an unwieldy lump, a dull fellow, a blockhead.

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A blockhead; a dunce; a numskull.

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Defn: A blockhead.

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Defn: A dull, silent person; a blockhead.

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Defn: A simpleton; a blockhead; a stupid person; a ninny.

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Defn: A dolt; a blockhead.

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Defn: Literally, the head of an ox (emblem of cuckoldom); hence, a dolt; a blockhead.

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There marched the bard and blockhead, side by side, Who rhymed for hire, and patronized for pride.

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A fool; a blockhead.

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A stupid person; a blockhead; a dull fellow; a dolt.

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A log; a block; a blockhead.

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We submit that a wooden spoon of our day would not be justified in calling Galileo and Napier blockheads because they never heard of the differential calculus.

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SUMPH Sumph, n. Defn: A dunce; a blockhead.

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-- Swine's head, a dolt; a blockhead.

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THICKSKULL Thick"skull', n. Defn: A dullard, or dull person; a blockhead; a numskull.

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UNDERHEAD Un"der*head', n. Defn: A blockhead, or stupid person; a dunderhead.

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WANTWIT Want"wit', n. Defn: One destitute of wit or sense; a blockhead; a fool.

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"We submit that a wooden spoon of our day would not be justified in calling Galileo and Napier blockheads because they never heard of the differential calculus."

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The blockhead thought his master would be angry if disturbed by such trifles, and this ended the experiment with the brazen head.

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'By Hell (answered _Erizo_) thou hast raised a Fury in me, that will not be lulled asleep, but by a Potion of his Blood; let's dispatch this Blockhead first': And running at the Footman, with one Thrust killed him.

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Now we must not suppose that Squire Potts had, like an old blockhead, admitted these two young men into such close terms of intimacy with his family, upon no further acquaintance than was furnished him by his having helped the one out of a lead shaft, and the other to a dry rig-out after the duckings he had encountered in seeking the necessary aid--quite the contrary; for though the nature of the accident, and the forlorn condition of our pedestrians, would have insured them both food and shelter till the patient could have been safely removed elsewhere; yet the squire would never have admitted any one to the society of the female part of his family, whose respectability and station in society he was at all doubtful about.

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"And so I've no doubt it is," interposed Frank; "for you must either have been doomed to disappointment by your failure, or, if you had succeeded in being the fortunate competitor out of the hundred candidates who are striving for the prize, you would, as a matter of course, have incurred the everlasting enmity of the disappointed ninety-nine, to say nothing of their numerous friends and allies; why, you would be cut up to minced meat amongst them all; and nine-tenths of the reviews and newspapers would be ringing their changes of abuse upon your name, as one of the most blundering blockheads that ever spoilt paper."

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"This really is very provoking," said Job; "and the worst part of the business is, that I can do no good whatever--the poor creature is too far gone in consumption for the skill of the whole faculty put together to save her life; and, bless me, my poor Selim has not only carried me miles and miles over the road to-day, but, like an inconsiderate blockhead, I must gallop him after the hounds, across the country.

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"He!" vociferated the uncle, "a proud blockhead; I heerd of his goings on.

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"'You old blockhead!' says they, 'we want neither one nor t'other!

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"What's the matter, you blockhead?" she asked of Wool.

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with the candle, you blockhead?"

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blockheads!

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blockheads!

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"'Blockhead!' said I, 'what made you show her in there?

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"But this man is a blockhead," said Croustillac, contemptuously.

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A strong-armed blockhead is not the less obviously able to pump up water because the terms 'muscular contractility' and 'atmospheric pressure' are as heathen Greek to him; or because the pump-handle, which alone is directly moved by him, touches, not the water itself, but only the first link in a chain of mechanism connecting it with the water; or because, if the sucker of the pump got choked, or the well were to dry up, it would be vain for him to go on moving the pump-handle.

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Blockhead as he is, nothing of all this in the least diminishes his conviction that as long as the pump continues in order and there remains water in the well, he can oblige the water to rise by moving the pump-handle; nor can anything analogous prevent the mind from feeling that whenever, in ordinary circumstances, it wills that the limbs be moved, the limbs not only will be moved, but cannot help being moved accordingly.

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It was that he was a blockhead, and had no idea of the absurdity that he was committing.

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"Mr Samuel, you blockhead.

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[42] The general tenor of the writer in _The Church Times_ may fairly be inferred from the following extract from the first article of the series: The judgment that must be pronounced on the work as a whole is precisely that which has been passed on the Revised New Testament, that there are doubtless some few changes for the better, so obvious and so demanded beforehand by all educated opinion that to have neglected them would at once have stamped the revisers as blockheads and dunces; but that the set-off in the way of petty and meddlesome changes for the worse, neglect of really desirable improvements, bad English, failure in the very matter of pure scholarship just where it was least to be expected, and general departure from the terms of the Commission assigned to them (notably by their introduction of confusion instead of flexibility into the services, so that the congregation can seldom know what is going to happen) has so entirely outweighed the merits of the work that it cannot possibly be adopted by the Church, and must be dismissed as a dismal fiasco, to be dealt with anew in some more adequate fashion.

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The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is p. 78 a far more civilized being than the blockhead who loudly expresses his disbelief in a story which is told simply for the amusement of the company.

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Men are not born blockheads; they become such.

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These, as they are more laborious, so are they less happy than those other hackney scribblers which I first mentioned, who never stand much to consider, but write what comes next at a venture, knowing that the more silly their composures are, the more they will be bought up by the greater number of readers, who are fools and blockheads: and if they hap to be condemned by some few judicious persons, it is an easy matter by clamour to drown their censure, and to silence them by urging the more numerous commendations of others.

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For I appeal to you, Sir, who shews most Veneration for the Memory of _Shakespear_, he who loves and admires his Charms and makes them one of his chief Delights, who sees him and reads him over and over and still remains unsatiated, and who mentions his Faults for no other Reason but to make his Excellency the more conspicuous, or he who, pretending to be his blind Admirer, shews in Effect the utmost Contempt for him, preferring empty effeminate Sound to his solid Beauties and manly Graces, and deserting him every Night for an execrable _Italian_ Ballad, so vile that a Boy who should write such lamentable Dogrel would be turn'd out of _Westminster_-School for a desperate Blockhead, too stupid to be corrected and amended by the harshest Discipline of the Place?

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You know what a blockhead he is.

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_Tommy._--This fellow must have been a very great blockhead, to ask two hundred guineas, and then to take a few farthings for his horse.

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He might be ungrateful to his friends, disobedient to his parents, a glutton, an ignorant blockhead, in short, everything which to plain sense appears most frivolous or contemptible, without incurring the least imputation, provided his hair hung fashionably about his ears, his buckles were sufficiently large, and his politeness to the ladies unimpeached.

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"Of whom could I be talking but that big blockhead who proposes to challenge me to a duel with revolvers at one hundred paces?"

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What a fool he had been to make such a blunder--what an utter blockhead.

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'There are,' he says, 'some who would continue blockheads' (the Alpine Club was not yet founded), 'even on the summit of the Andes or the Peak of Teneriffe.

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Men are Whigs or not-Whigs, and the not-Whig is less a heretic to be anathematised than a blockhead beneath the reach of argument.

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But within the club that blockhead, thinking of nothing but the appearances of our fight and his own credit, was varying his assertion that he had thrashed me, with denunciations of me as a "blackguard," and giving half a [Pg 183] dozen men a highly colored, improvised, and altogether improbable account of my relentless pursuit and persecution of Lady Mary Justin, and how she had left London to avoid me.

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Churchill was a blockhead.

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"And so," cried the nobleman, "you have burnt your opera, and are really such a blockhead as to believe in the absurdities of a monk!"

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"When," he writes, "through the clouds of smoke, he (the young angel) saw the fire of the guns, the decks covered with mangled limbs and bodies, dead or dying; the ships sinking, burning, or blown into the air; and the quantity of pain, misery and destruction the crews, yet alive, were with so much eagerness dealing round to one another, he turned angrily to his guide and said, "'You blundering blockhead; you are ignorant of your business.

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He is a blockhead, take it from me, sir, That does not know his A, B, C, sir, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z.

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But when some blockhead teacher, not understanding what he is about, continually forces the child to promise things, making no distinctions, allowing no choice, knowing no limit, the little fellow, worried and weighed down with all these obligations, neglects them, forgets them, at last despises them; and considering them mere empty formulas, turns the giving and the breaking of them into ridicule.

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It's all right to get rid of all the fools, idiots, maniacs, blockheads, morons, psychopaths, paranoids, timidity-ridden, fear-worshipers, fanatics, thieves, and the rest of the general, all-round, no-good characters; I'm all for it.

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Blockhead--none of my kith or kin ever had such an infernal complaint.

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"Blockhead!" shrilled the Rattlesnake, who had taken a great fancy to the Scarecrow.

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Say George Duggan, you blockhead."

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The Master Thief Brother And Sister Princess Rosette The Norka The Wonderful Birch Jack And The Beanstalk The Little Good Mouse Graciosa And Percinet The Three Princesses Of Whiteland The Voice Of Death The Six Sillies Kari Woodengown Drakestail The Ratcatcher The True History Of Little Golden Hood The Golden Branch The Three Dwarfs Dapplegrim The Enchanted Canary The Twelve Brothers Rapunzel The Nettle Spinner Farmer Weatherbeard Mother Holle Minnikin Bushy Bride Snowdrop The Golden Goose The Seven Foals The Marvellous Musician The Story Of Sigurd THE YELLOW FAIRY BOOK AN ILLUSTRATED EDITION The Yellow Fairy Book The Cat And The Mouse In Partnership The Six Swans The Dragon Of The North Story Of The Emperor's New Clothes The Golden Crab The Iron Stove The Dragon And His Grandmother How Six Men Travelled Through The Wide World The Glass Mountain The Dead Wife In The Land Of Souls The White Duck The Witch And Her Servants The Magic Ring The Flower Queen's Daughter The Flying Ship The Snow-Daughter And The Fire-Son The Story Of King Frost The Death Of The Sun-Hero The Witch The Hazel-Nut Child The Story Of Big Klaus And Little Klaus Prince Ring The Swineherd How To Tell A True Princess The Blue Mountains The Tinder-Box The Witch In The Stone Boat Thumbelina The Nightingale Hermod And Hadvor The Steadfast Tin-Soldier Blockhead-Hans A Story About A Darning-Needle THE VIOLET FAIRY BOOK A Tale Of The Tontlawald The Finest Liar In The World The Story Of Three Wonderful Beggars Schippeitaro The Three Princes And Their Beasts (Lithuanian Fairy Tale) The Goat's Ears Of The Emperor Trojan The Nine Pea-Hens And The Golden Apples The Lute Player The Grateful Prince The Child Who Came From An Egg Stan Bolovan The Two Frogs The Story Of A Gazelle How A Fish Swam In The Air And A Hare In The Water.

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Blockhead-Hans Blue Beard Blue Bird Blue Mountains Blue Parrot Bobino Bones of Djulung Boy Who Could Keep A Secret Boy who found Fear at Last Boys With The Golden Stars Brave Little Tailor Bronze Ring Brother And Sister Brown Bear of Norway Brownie of the Lake Bunyip Bushy Bride Caliph Stork Cannetella Castle of Kerglas Cat And The Mouse In Partnership Catherine and Her Destiny Cat's Elopement Child Who Came From An Egg Cinderella, Or The Little Glass Slipper Clever Cat Clever Maria Clever Weaver Colony Of Cats Comb and the Collar Cottager And His Cat Crab And The Monkey Crystal Coffin Cunning Hare Cunning Shoemaker Dapplegrim Darning-Needle Daughter Of Buk Ettemsuch Dead Wife Death Of Abu Nowas And Of His Wife Death Of Koshchei The Deathless Death Of The Sun-Hero Diamond cut Diamond Dirty Shepherdess Dog and the Sparrow Don Giovanni De La Fortuna Donkey Skin Dorani Dragon And His Grandmother Dragon Of The North Dragon Was Tricked Drakestail Dschemil and Dschemila East Of The Sun And West Of The Moon Eisenkopf Elf Maiden Emperor's New Clothes Enchanted Canary Enchanted Deer Enchanted Head Enchanted Knife Enchanted Ring Enchanted Snake Enchanted Watch Enchanted Wreath Envious Neighbour Esben and the Witch Escape of the Mouse Fair Circassians Fairy Gifts Fairy Nurse Fairy Of The Dawn False Prince and the True Farmer Weatherbeard Fate of the Turtle Father Grumbler Felicia And The Pot Of Pinks Find Out A True Friend Finest Liar In The World Fir-tree Fish Story Fish Swam In The Air And A Hare In The Water.

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CONTENTS [xiii] page The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership 1 The Six Swans 4 The Dragon of the North 9 Story of the Emperor's New Clothes 21 The Golden Crab 26 The Iron Stove 32 The Dragon and his Grandmother 38 The Donkey Cabbage 42 The Little Green Frog 50 The Seven-headed Serpent 60 The Grateful Beasts 64 The Giants and the Herd-boy 75 The Invisible Prince 78 The Crow 92 How Six Men travelled through the Wide World 95 The Wizard King 100 The Nixy 108 The Glass Mountain 114 Alphege, or the Green Monkey 119 Fairer-than-a-Fairy 126 The Three Brothers 134 The Boy and the Wolves, or the Broken Promise 138 The Glass Axe 141 The Dead Wife 149 In the Land of Souls 152 The White Duck 155 The Witch and her Servants 161 The Magic Ring 178 The Flower Queen's Daughter 192 The Flying Ship 198 The Snow-daughter and the Fire-son 206 The Story of King Frost 209 The Death of the Sun-hero 213 The Witch 216 The Hazel-nut Child 222 The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus 225 Prince Ring 237 The Swineherd 249 How to tell a True Princess 254 The Blue Mountains 256 The Tinder-box 265 The Witch in the Stone Boat 274 Thumbelina 279 The Nightingale 291 Hermod and Hadvor 301 The Steadfast Tin-soldier 308 Blockhead Hans 313 A Story about a Darning-needle 319 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS [xiv] PLATES The Swineherd takes the Ten Kisses Frontispiece The Six Brothers changed into Swans by their Stepmother To face page 8 The Witch-maiden sees the Young Man under a Tree " 12 'Here you shall remain chained up until you die' " 20 The Prince throws the Apple to the Princess " 30 The Iron Stove " 32 'Standing in the doorway a charming maiden at whose sight his mind seemed to give way' " 58 The Seven-headed Serpent " 62 The Mirror of the Present " 84 Prince Gnome learns the Name of his Rival at the Golden Fountain " 88 The Black Girl stops the Witch with a Bit of the Rock " 144 Militza and her Maidens in the Garden " 168 Iwanich casts the Fish into the Water " 172 'In winter, when everything is dead, she must come and live with me in my palace underground' " 196 Simpleton's Army appears before the King " 204 The Snow Maiden " 206 'Gee up, my five horses' " 226 The Swineherd takes the Ten Kisses " 250 The Irishman arrives at the Blue Mountains " 262 The Witch comes on Board " 274 Sigurd hews the Chain asunder " 276 The King finds the Queen of Hetland " 302 WOODCUTS IN TEXT [xv] page The Partnership 1 At Home in the Church 2 Protestation 3 The Way of the World 3 ' And then her dress ' 7 The Youth secures the Dragon 17 The Emperor comes to see his New Clothes 24 ' Let down, let down thy petticoat that lets thy feet be seen ' 27 The Fisherman brings the Crab on the Golden Cushion 28 ' Then she reached the three cutting swords, and got on her plough-wheel and rolled over them ' 35 The Dragon carries off the Three Soldiers 39 The Fiend defeated 41 The Maiden obtains the Bird-heart 44 The Hunter is transformed into a Donkey 46 The Young Man gives the Donkeys to the Miller 48 The Prince looks into the Magic Mirror 51 Prince Saphir Steals the Horse and Harness 55 Ferko healed by Magic Waters 67 Ferko before the King 68 Ferko leads the Wolves on 73 The Herd-boy binds up the Giant's Foot 75 Rosalie 82 In the Labyrinth of Despair 85 The Evil Spirits drag the Girl to the Cauldron 93 My Enemy is given into my Hands 97 The Princess and the Eagle in the Flowery Meadow 102 The Wizard King pays a Visit to the Princess 105 The Miller sees the Nixy of the Mill-pond 109 A Wave swept the Spinning-wheel from the Bank 112 The Boy attacked by the Eagle on the Glass Mountain 116 The King makes Friends with the Green Monkey 121 The Green Monkey in the Bath 123 Lagree gives the Two Bottles to Fairer-than-a-Fairy 127 Fairer-than-a-Fairy summons the Rainbow 130 ' Then the youth swung his mighty sword in the air, and with one blow cut off the serpent's head ' 136 ' My brother, my brother, I am becoming a wolf !'

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BLOCKHEAD HANS [313] Far away in the country lay an old manor-house where lived an old squire who had two sons.

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All the servants stood in the courtyard and saw them mount their steeds, and here by chance came the third brother; for the squire had three sons, but nobody counted him with his brothers, for he was not so learned as they were, and he was generally called 'Blockhead-Hans.'

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'Oh, oh!' said Blockhead-Hans.

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I'll go too!' cried Blockhead-Hans; and the brothers laughed at him and rode off.

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'Dear father!' cried Blockhead-Hans, 'I must have a horse too.

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'Well,' said Blockhead-Hans, 'if I can't have a horse, I will take the goat which is mine; he can carry me!'

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'Here I come!' shouted Blockhead-Hans, singing so that the echoes were roused far and near.

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'Hullo!' bawled Blockhead-Hans, 'here I am!

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