Excerpt from Popular Fairy Tales in Words of One Syllable To those who have read Robinson Crusoe in words of one syllable, by Mary Godolphin, no further preface is necessary for any works of that kind. To those who have not read it, I would merely say, that although these have been called Fairy Tales in words of one sylla ble, it has been thought expedient to leave all the names unchanged, and also to retain cer tain other words, such as fairy, princess, brother, sister, uncle, which have no equivalent shorter than the words themselves, and without which it would be impossible to give to the stories the sense their author originally intended. My young readers, I know, will not criticise, and from those who are older, I hope for a just ap preciation of the difficulties to be overcome, rather than a critical observation of the faults these volumes may contain. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.