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The Pink Fairy Book
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Title: The Pink Fairy Book
Author: Andrew Lang, Ed.
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The Pink Fairy Book
Edited by Andrew Lang
Preface
All people in the world tell nursery tales to their children. The Japanese tell them, the Chinese, the Red Indians by their camp fires, the Eskimo in their dark dirty winter huts. The Kaffirs of South Africa tell them, and the modern Greeks, just as the old Egyptians did, when Moses had no