This text was prepared by Lisa Ripperton, using as copytext, Fifty Famous Stories Retold, by James Baldwin, American Book Company, 1896.

Since this book was first published before 1923, it is in the public domain in the United States. By U.S. law, it entered the public domain 75 years after its first publication.

Numerous black and white illustrations are included in the text.

According to advertisements in the back of the book, this book was published in the Famous Story Series of Eclectic School Readings as a supplementary book for the Second Reader Grade.

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