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Excerpt from The Old Fairy Tales IN the latter part of the reign of Queen Bess there was an honest, industrious countryman named Meanwell. Liv ing upon a small farm which he held under Sir Peter Gripe, a very hard, covetous landlord, who was per suaded by one of his richer tenants, Hugh Graspall, as greedy as himself, to take away the lands held by Mean well and other poor tenants, and let him have them to increase his own large farm. 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.