Buttered Side Down

<SPAN name="startofbook"></SPAN> <h1> BUTTERED SIDE DOWN </h1> <br/> <h2> STORIES </h2> <h3> BY </h3> <h2> EDNA FERBER </h2> <br/><br/><br/> <h5> MARCH, 1912 </h5> <br/><br/><br/> <h3> FOREWORD </h3> <br/> <p>"And so," the story writers used to say, "they lived happily ever after."</p> <p>Um-m-m&mdash;maybe. After the glamour had worn off, and the glass slippers were worn out, did the Prince never find Cinderella's manner redolent of the kitchen hearth; and was it never necessary that he remind her to be more careful of her finger-nails and grammar? After Puss in Boots had won wealth and a wife for his young master did not that gentleman often fume with chagrin because the neighbors, perhaps, refused to call on the lady of the former poor miller's son?</p> <p>It is a great risk to take with one's book-children. These stories make no such promises. They stop just short of the phrase of the old story writers, and end truthfully, thus: And so they lived.</p> <P CLASS="noindent"> E. F.</p> <br/><br/><br/> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />