IIR IS ie AC 18

Next to sof, Reynard the Fox is the best
known of the tales in which animals play the
chief part. It is natural, therefore, that a
Cranford .#s0p should be followed by a
Cranford Reynard; and in the present volume
I have endeavoured to do for Reynard what I
attempted to do for Zsop in its predecessor—
provide a text which children could read with
ease and pleasure, and at the same time give
their parents, their cousins, and their aunts a
short réswmé of the results which the latest
research in folklore and literary history has
arrived at with regard to the origin of the
book.

With regard to the text, I found that

ready-made to my hand. The late Sir Henry