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Pepper & Salt

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Howard Pyle, 1853-1911

Pepper & salt : or seasoning for young folk / prepared by Howard
Pyle. -- Wilimington, DE : ISI Books, 2006.

p. ; cm
ISBN-13: 978-1-933859-08-8
ISBN-10: 1-933859-08-3
“A National Review/ISI Book.”
Originally published: New York : Harper, 1886.

1. Fairy tales. 2. Fables.
I. Title. II Pepper and salt.

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THE SKILLFUL HUNTSMAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Two Opinions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Ye Song of Ye Foolish Old Woman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
A Newspaper Puff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

CLAUS AND HIS WONDERFUL STAFF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Three Fortunes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Venturesome Boldness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Superficial Culture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

HOW DAME MARGERY TWIST SAW MORE 28
THAN WAS GOOD FOR HER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
38
Ye Song of Ye Gossips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
A Victim to Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Play and Ernest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

CLEVER PETER AND THE TWO BOTTLES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
The Accident of Birth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Ye Romantic Adventures of Three Tailors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Fancy and Fact . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

HANS HECKLEMANN’S LUCK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Ye Two Wishes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Averse With a Moral, But No Name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Ye Song of Ye Rajah and Ye Fly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
68

FARMER GRIGGS’S BOGGART . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Pride in Distress . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Profession and Practice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
A Tale of a Tub . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

THE BIRD IN THE LINDEN TREE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Ye Story of a Blue China Plate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Moral Blindness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Overconfidence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

THE APPLE OF CONTENTMENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
The Force of Need . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
A Disappointment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Ye Sad Story Concerning One Innocent Little Lamb

and Four Wicked Wolves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

This is the Way that One in Cap and Motley Stops for a
while along the Stony Path of Life to make you Laugh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Frontispiece

Jacob’s Mother and the Herr Mayor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Jacob and the Red One . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Jacob Shoots at the Magpie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Jacob and the Magic Plough . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Jacob and the Red One go hunting together . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Jacob and Gretchen Get the Best of the Red One and Go Home Together Happily . . . . 7
Two Opinions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Ye Song of Ye Foolish Old Woman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
A Newspaper Puff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Claus and the Master of Black Arts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Claus and the White Snake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
The Master is Angry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Claus Listens to the Talk of the Two Ravens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Claus and the Manikin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Hans Discovers Claus’s Luck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
How Hans was Caught . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Three Fortunes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Venturesome Boldness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Superficial Culture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Dame Twist Drinketh Tea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
The Little Man and the Great Horse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Dame Twist visits a Strange Patient . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Dame Twist Drives Away the Little Folks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Dame Margery Twist Goeth to see the Merry Doings at the Fair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Dame Twist sees the Little Man in Green for the Last Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Ye Song of Ye Gossips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
A Victim to Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Play and Ernest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Clever Peter and the Little Gentlemen in Black . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Clever Peter Rides to the King’s Palace upon his Fine Horse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Peter Eats with the King and Princess . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Clever Peter and the Unlucky Bottle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Clever Peter opens the Unlucky Bottle for the King and Princess . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
The Accident of Birth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Ye Romantic Adventures of Three Tailors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Fancy and Fact . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Hans Hecklemann . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Catherine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Hans Hecklemann goes to the Cottage of the

Old Wise Woman in Search of his Luck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Hans Hecklemann and the Old Wise Woman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Hans finds his Luck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Hans Hecklemann ploughs for Gold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Ye Two Wishes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
A Verse with a Moral, but no Name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Ye Song of Ye Rajah and Ye Fly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Dame Mally Griggs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Farmer Georgie Grigg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Farmer Griggs and the Boggart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
The Departure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Farmer Griggs and the Wise Man . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
The Boggart Rejoices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Pride in Distress . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Profession and Practice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
A Tale of a Tub . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Ye King . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Prince John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
The Prince Aids the Old Woman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
The Great Ugly Troll Finds the Prince by the Fire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
The Gooseherd and her Daughter meet the Princess at the Roadside . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

The Prince looks through the Magic Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
The Old King rejoices at his new Daughter-in-law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Ye Story of a Blue China Plate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Moral Blindness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Overconfidence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
The Little Man asks for his Cap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Christine and the Apple . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Christine’s Mother and Sisters Wish for the Apple . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
The King reaches for the Apple . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
The King talks with the Wise Man . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
The King’s Steward and Christine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Christine Gives the Apple to the King . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
The Force of Need . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
A Disappointment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Ye Sad Story concerning One Innocent Little Lamb and Four Wicked Wolves . . . . . . 111

HERE, MY LITTLE man, you may hold my cap and bells—and you, over there,
may hold the bauble! Now, then, I am ready to talk as a wise man should and am
a giddy-pated jester no longer! This is what I have to say:

One must have a little pinch of seasoning in this dull, heavy life of ours; one
should never look to have all the troubles, the labors, and the cares, with never
a whit of innocent jollity and mirth. Yes; one must smile now and then, if for
nothing else than to lift the corners of the lips in laughter that are only too often
dragged down in sorrow.

It is for this that I sit here now, telling you all manner of odd quips and jests
until yon sober, wise man shakes his head and goes his way, thinking that I am
even more of a shallow-witted knave than I really am. But, prut! Who cares for
that? I am sure that I do not if you do not.

Yet listen! One must not look to have nothing but pepper and salt in this life
of ours—no, indeed! At that rate we would be worse off than we are now. I only
mean that it is a good and pleasant thing to have something to lend the more
solid part a little savor now and then!

So, here I’ll sit; and, perhaps, when you have been good children, and have
learned your lessons or done your work, your mother will let you come and play
a little while with me.

I will always be ready and waiting for you here, and I will warrant your moth-
er that I will do you no harm with anything that I may tell you. If I can only make
you laugh and be merry for a little while, then my work will be well done, and I
will be glad in the doing of it.

And now give me my cap and bells again, for my wits are growing cold with-
out them; and you will be pleased to reach me my bauble once more, for I love to
have him by me.

Will you be seated? And you, over there, seat the baby on the grass! Are you
ready? Very well; then I will tell you a story, and it shall be about “The Skillful
Huntsman.”