Milne-Home, Mary Pamela, 1860-1936,

Mamma's black nurse stories : West Indian folklore / by Mary Pamela Milne-Home. - x pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 131 pages, 6 unnumbered leaves of plates : colour illustrations ; 18 cm

Some stories reprinted from G.W. Dasent's Popular tales from the Norse.

Part I: -- Anansi and alligator -- The lady and the bull --The snake and the king's daughter -- Whence they came --The story of Anansi and tiger -- Brother death -- The snake -- The affassia -- Goat and Anansi -- Anansi, his wife, and tiger -- The story about rat and cat -- Anansi, tiger, and goat -- Garshan bull -- The lady and the little doggie -- De king and de peafowl -- Part II: -- The lion, goat, and baboon -- The little child and the pumpkin-tree --The king and the ant's tree -- The girl and the fish -- The dancing gang -- Anansi and baboon -- Anansi and the lion -- Anansi and Quanqua --The brother and his sisters -- Why the Jack Spaniard's waist is small -- The man and the doukana tree -- The ear of corn and the twelve men.

Opie collection of children's literature, C 1041


English.


Folklore--West Indies.
Folklore.


West Indies.


Juvenile literature.

GR120 / .M66 1890

398.21 Ja Mil