The Brown Fairy Book
by Andrew Lang
The stories in this Fairy Book come from all over the world. For example, the adventures of "Ball bearer and evil" are told by red Indian grandmothers to Native American children who never go to school and see pen and ink. "Bunyip" is known to even more uneducated children who run in the bushes of Australia without any clothes at all. You can see pictures of these funny little black men in Spencer and Gillen's "Northern Races of Central Australia" before their ordeal begins. They have no lessons other than following and catching birds, animals, fish, lizards and snakes. But when they grow up to be big boys and girls, they are brutally cut with stone knives and they are afraid of fake cars for their own sake," says their parents, and I think if they had the choice, they would prefer to go to school and take advantage of their chance to do birch and bullying. However, many men may think that it is better to learn to hunt as soon as they start walking. Other stories, such as "The Holy Milk of the Kumongoe," come from infidels in Africa, whose beloved pope was not as poor as in Australia, but who had a lot of livestock and milk and had good food to eat, and who lived in houses like very large beehives and wore such clothes, although they were not very similar to ours.
