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SURE TO
7
Christian Andersen
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AND THE
TELE3i
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WIND
AN'
WAVE
AN'
WANDHERIN' FLAME
Dunbar
Aldis
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115
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WINGS
Fedor Sologub
123 155
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167
CONTENTS
GREEK LEGENDS
PAGE
183
HOW THE
ASS
195
213
Dragoumis
WAUKEWA'S EAGLE
James Buckham
....
.
Arthur Quiller-Couch
.277
.
285
CHILDE ROWLAND
Joseph Jacobs
297
TAM
0'
SHANTER
Robert Burns
(Prose Version by
309
THE BOGGART
Ernest
Rhys
PRO'.
MANHATTAN
ONCE when
passing by a
little
the
Emperor Charles
was
travelin
"Here you
live
"It seems to
me an
some one
really exist
I
on earth who
is
free
from care?
As Emperor
am
overwhelmed with
is
troubles, while
in itself,
little
kingdom
I
cannot be-
Emperor
Abbot
of this
singular convent.
a state of
mind the
latter
to the
Em-
peror's presence.
"What have
self.
On
the
way he examined
and
by-
1 In Christmas Tales of Flanders. Illustrated and collected Jean De Bosschere. Dodd, Mead & Company.
was
"I
am
in troubled waters;
must
steer
my way
When
through," he said.
he was
in the
latter
you?
sleep,
it is
very simple; we
eat,
we
drink,
we
come
that
to
in
order
command
you
me to-morrow
following questions:
"First,
What
is
"Secondly,
to
How many
cows'
tails
would
it
take
sun?
"Thirdly,
What am
I thinking
about?
"Try
you."
to please
me
from
On
From
that
moment he
knew no
peace.
He
of the
monks
Abbot con-
He was
of
so deep in thought
around him.
feet,
Even
if
"What a
"Is
it
possible
me?
cannot
Per-
possibly answer.
Who
lively imagina-
At that
moment
He was
What
"Why
to
little
thing
it
"Leave
me, and
all will
be
well.
To-morrow
I will
come
here and dress myself in your robe, and I will turn the
tables on him."
yielded,
"Speak, I
am
listening."
"To measure
sun,
long enough.
"Do you
sire,
Well, at this
moment, you
is
Abbot
of the convent
in
only nis
shepherd."
so heartily that
if
he has
laughing
still.
"WHAT
THE.
IS
SURE.
IS
SURE
me
AM
going to
I
tell
told to
I
and
when
was a
little
and which
it.
I like better
it
For
is
with
stories as with
delightful!
Well,
cottage.
dows low
in
it,
close
a watch-dog that
my
story,
and
in
Few
was a
Reprinted by special permission from Stories and Tales, by Copyright by Houghton, Mifflin
io
he lent
it
to his neighbors,
slight
services
still it
would be more
it
for
some-
make
of
more frequent
or exchange?
use.
But
sell,
"Why, you
said the wife.
off to
what
is
best,
good-man,"
Come,
ride
horse
whatever you
the town
get
tied
for the
sure to be right.
Make
So she
ter she
on his neckerchief
understood
quite spruce;
she
dusted his hat with the palm of her hand; and she
kissed
to
him and
sent
off,
was
Of
course, he
would
know what
hot,
in the sky.
The
way
to market.
Some
in
own
legs.
fierce
sun and no
shade
all
the way.
A man
could be.
came
driving a
cow
as
pretty a
cow as
DOES
n
if
you
cow!" he began
Look you, a
it is all
the
same
to
me, as
shall
we
make an exchange?"
"To be sure!" was the answer, and
made.
the bargain
was
just as well
now
turn back
he had
mind
But he had
market he
made up
must
go,
his
if
go
to market, so to
He
trudged
fast, so
"I
should very
much
like
to
the peasant.
road-side,
by our
and
we might
take
it
into our
own
room.
And
really
for us
we exchange?"
Yes, the
so the exchange
him a man
12
peasant.
How
it
nicely
we
could
little
pond, and
would
'If
we had but
shall, too!
a goose!'
Now
and she
you
Will you
exchange?
I will give
my
The
will
and
He was now
he
was wearied with the heat and the crowd, folk and
cattle ditch,
and close up
was
way and be
carried
off.
It
was a
"Cluck, cluck!"
say, but
this:
What
was
"That
seen
I
much
prettier than
should very
much
like to
almost think
it
take
we exchange?" he
DOES
13
So
it
He had
ing on his
too; he
first start-
way
to the
He was
of
inn,
when
the innkeeper
met him
in the
something.
the peasant.
"What a
many!
quantity! wouldn't
the last year
my
Why,
Ah
wish
my wife
me
for
them?"
you
"Give
for
them? why,
I will give
my
hen."
So
inn,
ent,
pockets
of gold,
Englishmen
in stories are
wont
to be.
Presently there
suss
is
that?"
folk asked,
a cow, and
"Well!
men.
fell
an
ox, I
warn
you!"
"I shall get kisses, not cuffs," replied the peasant.
"My
right.'
is
"A wager!"
pounds?"
my
measure, I
"Done!"
cried they.
And
was
the
it,
and
"Good evening,
wife."
"Same
to you,
good-man."
it."
"Of course,"
and
in
DOES
15
"O! how
delightful!
milk, butter,
table.
What a
capital idea!"
"You
are al-
ways
so thoughtful;
we have
for a sheep.
But now we
shall
that;
she loses
clever
fellow."
"What!
good-man?
shall
we
keep Michaelmas
this year,
You
was a
beautiful thought.
The
Michaelmas Day."
I
"But
peasant.
"A hen?
wife.
well, that
said his
shall
"A hen
have chickens.
just the
16
apples."
"Then
"Thanks,
thing to
kiss/'
cried
I
the wife.
my own
tell.
And now
I
have some-
When you
were gone
thought
how
with parsley.
Now
had the
So
I
went over
have parsley,
woman
is
so crabbed, she
I give
wanted
something for
Now
but
what could
her? nothing
grows
that
in
had
now
whole sackful.
kissed
That
is
him
again.
"Always down
is
Such a sight
worth the
the
money!"
And
so quite
who had
got
by
his bargains.
is
Certainly virtue
is
her
is
the wife
man
in the world,
heard this old story that was once told to me, and I
of
Many and many a man has come to trouble so he will say by following his wife's advice. This is how it was with a man
whom
I shall tell
you.
so
much
as a sprat.
fire,
was cooking
and
his
temper hot
enough
to fry fat.
try-
make
opened
it,
red
from head
at his chin
The
man
in
red walked
said he,
1
There
is
something that
Land, by
Reprinted
Pyle.
Howard
20
I
want you
for
me, and
if
have luck
I will
pay you
before."
"Not
night.
is
all
day long
my
back
I
now
am
per and a
warm
fire at
your bidding."
But the
fisher-
man had
said
different
"Come,"
man
to
This
not a chance
is
be
can
tell
you, and
my
advice to you
that
you go."
his head.
But
"My
advice to
you
is
that
you go."
would not
go.
The
She did not argue; she did not lose her temper;
"My
advice
you At
is
that
you go."
anger boiled over.
"Very
words
at her; "if
you drive
21
many men
say:
"Many
man
wife's advice."
his fur
his
and
off
man marched
through the
like
moonlight,
their
black
came
was
to
to
a dreary,
be
seen
but
thistles.
man and
boy, for forty-seven years, but never did I see as unlikely a place to catch anything as this."
First of all he
it
with
his
red
and a
little
silver casket
He
brought some
a light and
made
fire.
Out
of the
little
22
TWENTY-FOUR UNUSUAL STORIES A vivid flame went up into the moonPuff! flash!
and then a dense smoke as black as
ink,
light,
which
below
till all
Then
the old
man began
and words.
Presently
there
roared
and bellowed
like
thunder.
The
Then suddenly
and
all
was as
still
for
"Now,"
what
I tell you.
Speak not a
if
you
"No."
"Not even
"No."
"Well, that
'boo' to a goose?"
is
pretty hard
likes to
"And moreover,"
fold
you as
well."
23
about the
"And
man.
"No."
ain't I to see
"Not even
"No."
so
much
as a single feather?"
come."
tied the
"Now,"
you
feel
what
and hold
fast."
his hand,
and there
felt
He
flung his
off
a sky-rocket.
Nothing was
him
to
do
fast.
On
until, after
a great
lit
while, whatever
upon
The
old
man whipped
was nothing
24
upon one
other.
"This
is
you
if
to cast
"for
we
we
The fisherman
them and
much
as a herring.
But the
he had
He
it
That was the very thing that the magician had come
to fish for.
From
his
little
He
lid;
the fisherman
little
palace
made
of mother-of-
pearl
and
The
old
set
magician
it
box and
grow
world
25
a soap-bubble, until
it
his breath
from one
old magi-
The
there stood as
erman,
dumb
flight of
As he came
and there
the door
of light,
and
velvets,
Lead-
and
more magnificent
it
like
spun gold.
26
when
those
the
the two
who were
Then
she brought
her,
him
to
Nobody
said a
word
like
to the fisherman,
who
stood
staring about
him
an owl.
himself at
last, "if
by-and-by?"
for, to tell
a sharp hunger
for
and he longed
the
something
warm
empty
place.
much
as a crust of bread
who
sat
arose.
The
beautiful lady
who
who
him
worthy
I give
it,
Unto him do
and with
it all
power of powers!
little
the
it
and thrust
it
into his
27
and
if
you do not
know
I shall
not
tell
you.
Then
seemed to
men came
it,
carrying a chest.
it
The
opened
and
was
full of
bags of
gold money.
tiful lady.
"How
will
you have
"Have what?"
"Have
lady.
the
pay
it
in
my
hat."
it,"
"So be
waved her
hand, and the chief treasurer took a bag from the chest,
untied
cap.
it,
much wealth
and he stood
man
turned to
"Is
all this
"Then God
man.
bless
fisher-
Then
the throne
room
the
28
and
velvets,
came
to the door.
a bubble
vanished.
and sand
fisher-
The
and
all
man shook
and
If
it
jingled
tinkled,
it
was not
a dream,
"But anyhow,"
and
his face
making himself
flint
as hoary
steel,
He
took out
and
and
wood and
smoke
and
tied
just as
Then again he
"Remem-
"what
I told
our journey.
utter so
you
much
lost
man.
Now
fast."
and hold
29
felt
before.
He
flung his
air like
leg over
a sky-rocket.
to strange things
like to see
rid-
what
sort of a creature
in spite
and cap,
to
He was
riding
upon a he-goat
upon
little
man;
a billy-goat!"
all
were gone
like a
Down
fell
empty
sky,
He
away
money
falling in a
fell
shower
like sparks of
fell,
yellow
light.
Down
a top.
he
and down he
until his
head spun
like
By
its
he
30
bump!
away
into
room below.
in bed, snoring
for dear
into the
Up
she
a thunderstorm.
up and rubbed
following a
is
what comes of
woman's advice!
LONG,
came
one can remember, the Great Earth King beso very, very busy about a great
many
things
So
he sat himself down and rested his great head upon his
hand, and thought, and thought, and thought until he
decided that he must have some assistance.
advertise for
He would
into the red
some messengers!
So he seized a great
it
light,
and wrote
on the sky, that every one far and near could read:
WANTED
MESSENGERS FLEETER THAN HORSES, SWIFTER THAN MEN, TO CARRY MY MESSAGES, A MILLION TIMES TEN.
!
and he signed
went into
sleep on
1
it
simply,
Then he down
to
his
his
rainbow bed.
of the publishers from
By permission
Was
34
when
there
came a
rattle,
He
sprang quickly
from
reply,
"come
to serve
door.
had ever
on
They were
nothing;
faces
garments
that floated
"What
are your
"We
four,
Wind," pointing
have come
"We
Then
tone:
is
the
King spoke
is
to
them
in deep
and solemn
business
swift
"The task
a great one.
The King's
My messengers must be
and
Are ye able?"
BIRDS,
AND WIRES
35
us and see."
tried them.
So the King
"Down by the sea," said the King, "far over the mountains, many hours away, there lives a fisher folk that I love. Every day the men of the village go forth
in their little boats to fish,
their
catch.
thick
They
home
want.
again,
and
their
families
be
the
in
Go
to
them to-day.
Drive away
fog
again.
Then
till
none could
tell
how
Each
fierce
tried to out-
until
it
became a
and
careless
in their sport
how they
trees,
poor
36
Not
until they
did they
the
King had
sent them.
They
shame and
grief,
the
village lay in ruins and the people wept for their loss.
Then
the Earth
He
"False
voice,
and
faithless winds,"
he
said, in stern
and awful
my
Nevermore
shall
ye be
my
my
slaves.
Away from my
and
in
Then
ing
among
by the
seaside,
and
sighing
among
and even
to this sighs.
of their
moans and
and wrote
BIRDS,
AND WIRES
37
WANTED! MESSENGERS! FLEETER THAN HORSES, SWIFTER THAN MEN, TO CARRY MY MESSAGES,
A MILLION TIMES TEN.
Then he went
self
into his
laid
him-
down on
his
rainbow bed.
He
scarcely
had taken
forty winks
when he heard a
rat-tat-tatting
on the rain-
the rainbow
They had
scratchy
as
toes,
and the
as
kind
of
coat,
fitting
it.
snug
ever
the
tailor
could
make
"What
are your
"We
We
To
38
them
"The task
is
great one.
The King's
business
is
important.
ful,
My
must remember
Are ye able?"
my commands
and keep
my
se-
crets.
Each bird
on
his little
King's
Far
to the
they have lived amid ice and snow and the bitter frosts.
for
am
am
sun-
warm
may
my
all
suffering
as fast as ever
They summoned
the
warm
make
BIRDS,
AND WIRES
the middle
of
39
strange,
his
feathers.
out.
house un-
made
their
way
to the north
And when
happy
Then the robin pipped, and the bluebird blew; The sparrow chipped, and the swallow, too: "We know something, we won't tell, Somebody's coming, you know well. This is his name ('twixt you and me),
S-P-R-I-N-G."
much
Now,
this,
of course, the
all
that he
was
He
took the
warm
sun-
made
As he
his
way
and snow.
he thought,
woman
sitting in
40
you
sitting
here?"
he asked. your
feet
"Why
by
the
are
you
not
within,
warming
fire?"
"Why,
ing!"
don't you
know?" she
said, "spring is
com-
know?"
"Oh," said she with a smile, trying not
to look at
hoping that
if
the
the street,
looking gloomy
"Why
do you do
this,
my
good man?
Surely your
better be covering
them up."
"Oh, no," he said, straightening his bent back,
"spring
is
coming "
and a twinkle
Then
came
out: that
BIRDS,
AND WIRES
41
The robin pipped, and the bluebird blew; The sparrow chipped, and the swallow, too: "We know something, we won't tell, Somebody's coming, you know well.. This is his name ('twixt you and me),
S-P-R-I-N-G."
My!
And
come when he
Each
on
and dropped
his eyes
and
he said
in scornful voice.
"You vowed
to
keep
obeyed
your vow.
You
But
my
messengers.
I
I
may
use you as
my
servants.
Adieu!"
the birds flew sadly
Then
away
as
quietly and
and holes
in the
ground
and
ing
in
could
By this time the Earth King was nearly discouraged. He did not know what in the world to do. He rested
42
his
rose
and took the great brush and wrote the same big words
on the sky.
great
And
he lay down on a
asleep.
As
he
slept, the
CRASH-CRASHthe
King leaped
if
cloud seemed
he was a King.
that way, and
little
There before
way and
up and down,
red-hot crealike
the
Fourth of July.
"Who
his eyes,
"Messengers,
they
all
messengers,"
whispered
at once,
King."
"What
are your
names?"
"We
men
call
us Electricity
are
known
to
men,
BIRDS,
AND WIRES
43
solemnly, as he
his
had done the winds and the birds before them, that
be
faith-
all
and
their feet
They might
way.
So
He
to
And when
all
was complete, he
to
called
them
his secret
little
messages.
King's secrets.
so
much
as a
word
of them.
when they
by
to get revenge
spirits.
They dashed
44
but
all to
no purpose.
All they
MUM-MUM-MUM-M-M;
it.
and the
The
given
the
birds
had
all
away
They were
much
So day after day they went to the wires and sat upon
close to
now
down
left
but
all
MUM-MUM-MUM-M-M-M-M.
And
If
you want
tale,
blowing against
to a telegraph pole
you
hear
MUM-MUM-MUM-M-M-M.
KATCHA AND
THE. DEVIL
good
it
marry
ter
her.
for her,
no mat-
voice until
it
a mile away.
until
The
became
by
the
Now
ter's,
as
it
always happens in a
village,
every Sunday
the tavern.
all
As soon
as the
bagpipes
the
crowded
into the
room and
the window.
The music
girls
strike
From Czechoslovak
Copy-
& Company.
47
48
to
same.
as she
was hurrying
"Here
I
to the
am
getting
and yet
it,
take
he asked me!
She was
tavern,
where she
to see
sat
down near
around
what
girls the
Suddenly a stranger
sat
in hunter's green
came
in.
He
down
When
At
she was
When
from
to the piper,
"Clear the
alone!"
boys!
This
is
for
Katcha and me
49
noticing
them
at
all.
Katcha was
whole world
young man!
If the
at her,
The
all
afternoon and
else.
evening.
He
and
it
was time
to part, "I
wish
forever!"
"Very
"Come
with me."
"Where do you
live?"
my
neck and
his
I'll tell
you."
man changed
into a devil
to hell.
At the gates of
hell
Katcha
off his
neck.
tight
and
make
her budge.
The
devil finally
had
to
Katcha
still
glued to his
neck.
5o
how
as he
he asked
her.
"So
asked her to
"Afterwards just to
hell.
little I
And
let
go of me!"
"How
common
sense
earth!
You might
let
go of a
man
once
make
her
let
her back to earth yourself and get rid of her as best you
can.
Perhaps
this will
be a lesson to you."
So the
devil,
back
to earth with
Katcha
still
He
He
tried every
hills
way
to get her
off.
if
He
promised her
let
wooded
and
rich
meadows
she but
him
go.
Katcha
held on.
came
at last to
51
The
devil trans-
man
so that
carrying?"
sigh.
"I'm
I
all
I'm
My
legs are
said:
you what:
I'll
I'll
help you.
I can't leave
my
sheep
long, but
be very grateful
if
you
handsome
Now
the
52
some way
of getting
Katcha.
Presently he
self that
came
to
He wondered how
it
he could do
by throw-
The
slip
out of
it
without Katcha's
discovering
Very cautiously he
didn't move.
He
slipped
He
un-
looped the
first
button.
He
He
pond!
he got back to his sheep, the devil looked at
When
him
in
amazement.
"My
53
I'll
till
dooms-day.
I'll
reward you.
I
As
you
it is
you've helped,
must
tell
devil vanished.
Then he
"Well,
if
they're all as
we ought
to
days
in riot-
He
gave over
as
who were
bad
they
fines
robbed the people until the whole land was crying out
against them.
Now
astrologer to court
to read in the
When
tried
dissuade
the
duke
from
questioning
him
further.
"Such danger," he
lives of
said, "threatens
your
life
and the
I fear to
speak."
"Whatever
is," said
But
warn
54
come
to pass
you
will forfeit
your
The
astrologer
bowed and
said:
"Hear then,
foretell:
will
off
the
At the
full
of the
come
for
off to hell."
The
oger sounded to
him
judgment and
began
to trouble him.
As
They
away
the doors
and windows
in order to
The
duke reformed.
He
gave up his
evil
ways and
if
inkling of
any of these
He
55
my
friend, to
kindness.
When
the
moon
is in its first
was
this.
Now
castle
to the first
will
be assembled.
I
When
say:
come
me and
this?
or there'll be trouble
'
I'll
off.
Then ask
if
me
back.
same pay.
When
the
moon
is
I'm to carry
So don't
with your
you do
you'll
pay
for
it
own
skin.
Don't forget!"
carefully everything the
in its first quarter
When
the
moon was
56
he
TWENTY-FOUR UNUSUAL STORIES went to the first castle. A great crowd of people
to see the devil carry-
away
the governor.
devil, as
black
was
way through
the crowd,
this?" he shouted.
!
"Get
fell
on his
When
Then
two governors.
pite-
57
you anything.
have to consider
if
my own
really
safety.
you
want
to
you
really
want
to rule
have
to suffer hellfire in
your place."
The duke
come back
With
grief
coming of the
moon.
In the
first
astrologer's
him had
changed.
Time sped
or sorrow and
day
arrived.
fright, the
duke
sat
devil,
black as
He
am
here to
you!"
58
with a great
multitude of people.
all
out of breath,
came
way
this?
be trouble!"
the devil.
"Don't
you?"
"I don't
This
is
to
warn you!
She's alive
and
The
name
of
Katcha he
turned and
As
that he
made him
as a brother.
And
FOR my
slowly
November
afternoon,
at the gate
a cup.
At
a rider,
sil-
The
little
cow pony
was loping as
would permit,
seemed
to crawl as slowly
window pane.
knew
that
was the
district doctor
making
his far
rounds over
the range.
swift epidemic
and
leav-
much
illness
and
suffering behind.
his
Ted's uncle
and
Company.
61
62
"We
know what
to
make
of themselves beI
have seen a
It is
in the last
few days.
bad at
by themselves, are
He
bles.
felt
leaving
Ted
pony around
to the sta-
It
cold,
but he
warm and
had come.
He
felt
It
giant,
six
all his
possessions.
The
sat
light,
and bedding
down.
now with
his anxieties
now
racing out
63
how
There
people
there were
It
each other.
might be
it
far
from neighbors
faces than the
saw no other
their
thousands of sheep.
whom Ted
night
times.
when
the boy
still
how
camp
fire,
with the
smoke
rising straight
stars
seem-
The
lonely Irishman
had opened
new
friend
own
country, so
unlike this big bare one, a dear green land where the
little fields
were crowded
to-
of a
summer
night
64
to
make them
and
hear.
In this place a
man
could
sick
die alone
he began to
tell
his
own
Of them
all
Ted remem-
King
of
his friend
had
being a thou-
it
was
"Like those dogs on Arran Creek, they were perhaps," the Irishman said, "only sleeker of coat and
swifter of foot, I'm thinking."
faster,"
Ted had
objected.
logic,
"those
tell
you may be
else
faster
and
fairer
than anything
on earth."
it
impossible
finally into
and
65
of
grayhounds
still
Together they
in the foothills
when
moved
to
new
pasture,
The
was on one
of these occasions
that he had given the boy the image of Saint Christopher, "For," he said, "you are like to be a great
talk,
Now,
as
Ted thought
of illness
and keenest
His
to the
house where
doctor
again.
cases, either of
no
66
danger, but
can't."
they don't
them, I
Ted came
close
and pulled
he?"
"A
big
down
no one
He
Ted
again,
"and
I will
have to
me
all
all
day!"
"Yes, and
all
no time
Good
For Pedro,
and white
insert
collar
startling
apparition.
67
my
dog,"
Pedro
is
he
when he
;
a year old.
couldn't
Yes,
away yours
go another mile."
later,
came
up from the
stables
there were
of them.
strapped in place
coat.
"My
boy
tin.
girls will
replied, "so I
You can
tell
Michael Maras
for
him
we
ride
up
the trail."
They could
feel the
ridge.
So
far,
summer had
lin-
changing
now and
The
though through a
veil of mist.
"You had
came
ways.
"When
man
is
as sick as Michael,
what ever
68
is
snorted.
What
you
a ghost he
He
is
to a sick
man's cabin."
trail
behind them, in
At
six
not quite
so great as
pedition
"It
is irresistible.
would take
me
forever to drive
will
McKenI
and
leave
him
with
his
brothers.
can
to
long!"
The
stars
came
energy.
and
to eat
until
69
into
last
came
ordinary-
were
tall
barns and
The puppy
re-
to the
It
was a beau-
band
like
silver
in
leaping
Early as
it
was, Jim
down
to
Ted
as,
many
sick here;
nobody
They
tell
me
70
down.
we'll give
you another
go on with.
Now come
in
to breakfast."
his saddle
upon a
and
For
The
endlessly
away toward
the
it
hills,
seemLater,
went.
silent,
and looking
like a reddish-
brown
collie,
"A
somewhat
"It
in
the mountains to
make them
That looks
bad
It
was disturbing
also to see
how many
little
scattered
bands, solitary
their
heels,
71
and farther
tried to drive
from
their comrades.
Once or twice he
them
and
his inexpelittle
had very
"There
is
as fast as I can."
He saw
a low
the
little
mud and
White
flakes
were
now,
he could scarcely
to
hap-
to
seem as though
final
jumped from
his horse, of a
and thundered at
The whine
audi-
him
that Michael
was
alive.
The
cabin, so
72
it
him
it
as he entered,
outside.
colder than
was
had known
Ted
rekindled the
fire,
skill
preparing a meal.
wandered
"When
to drive
felt
me
I tried
them
and
in,"
I
scattered
in
snow coming
fell
they
must
get
In an hour his fever rose again, he tossed and muttered with only fleeting intervals of consciousness.
Ted
and had
settled
down
fell
to his task of
anxious
so
watching.
The snow
faster
and
faster
that
tried
He had
its
master
when pushed
73
couldn't do
in again.
much anyway,"
sighed
Ted
as he
him
"How
I wish,
after
all,
my
poor creatures," he
gasped.
"Those
But he
silent
fell
back, too
weak
to
move
farther,
it
and was
a long time.
When
he did speak
was almost
aloud.
coyotes."
He
lay very
still
while
Ted
ning to
o'clock,
feel sleepy
and blinking
at the firelight.
Eleven
twelve,
of his watch
was
after one
when
the old
man spoke
said.
again.
"Hark," he
For a moment Ted could hear nothing save the patpat of the snow against the window, but the collie
dog
bristled
74
and pricked
too,
Then
it
"My
poor sheep,
cried.
alongside of the
will
Those murderers
me."
killed for
his coat.
Michael?" he asked.
"I don't
I
what
can."
rifle?" returned
Michael doubtfully.
"Now,
had
it
on
my
is
in
my mind
is
bring
it
home
again.
But there
the
more
shells for
two shots
still
left in the
chamber."
"Two
more
If
shots
is
right,"
he
said,
shells?
may
well knew, he
75
mind
wandering
off
once
more
into
feverish
dreams.
"If
it
was
in the
up
to help
man
in such
plight.
You
rush of their wings in the air and could hear the cry
of the fairy
hills.
America
is
it's
Hoping
to quiet him,
Ted took
little
Saint Chris-
in the sick
man's
hand.
Then he
Michael scarcely
fallen
He
hurried
down
the slope,
be found.
Where
so
now
The whole
snow which he
followed, where
it
76
down
The
when
it
their
them
will
in,
had now,
when
Ted came
little
upon them
huddled together in a
ravine
He
quiet, although
now and
closer.
then they
little,
stamp, and
move
The cry
of the wolf
fierce
was
stilled at last,
upon a
straggling
the flock.
It was followed
by a second
shadow,
frantic
and a
third.
Ted
raised
Michael's improvi-
77
let
those
two be damp.
no
of the savage
its
another tearing at
throat
a fresh victim.
useless, yet
eyes.
he was so angry at
all
this
senseless,
brutal
sense of prudence.
He waved
his
lungs.
He saw
the creatures
He
fell
headlong.
One
toward him,
its
A
call
quarry
78
And mingled
with
The
stealthy, approachlift
the
air.
The second
listen,
wolf,
the
and stamped
in the
snow.
Then
saw the
all
giving
like
Down
came
an
moment
to fling himself
upon Ted,
to lick his
and
to
and so
set
catch,
not to
their
79
fight
and the
was
Day
warm wind
that melts
hour.
last,
sat
up
in
his bunk.
He
stiff
his night's
by the
preparing break-
inquire
how he
did.
"It's better I
am
his
in
"indeed
man
again.
head sadly,
"my
"even
my
a dangerous errand
my
you back.
made me
But daft or no
of Conne-
" he sniffed
"I
am
going to relish
my
Eh,
8o
glory me,
now!"
clumsy
latch,
stood upon
the
little silver
image
suaded to believe otherwise than that Saint Christopher had brought him.
WIND
AN'
WAVE
AN'
WANDHERIN' FLAME
(" 'Tis mindin' somethin' that happened far an' back o' the times o' the Little People I am. Sure, 'tis meself had nigh on forgot it entirely, but when all's quiet I'll be afther
tellin'
it.")
battlin'
somewhere, back
in
forged
far
up
by
that
was mighty
wisdom.
o'
Now
gold;
it
an' 'twas
it
an'
sail
where he would.
he made
as they'd
from
it,
wind.
last blows, his
flyin'
hand
hammer went
downward
sent ringin'
through the
afther
it
air;
command
was too
late to hindher.
Now
on the west
coast,
1 Reprinted by special permission from The Sons O' Cormac, by Aldis Dunbar. Copyright, 1920, by E. P. Dutton & Company.
83
84
coast.
o'
All
Myrdu,
his half-brother,
off;
but only by
an' he
was
up
Not
came nigh
caught
the
it
stretched
bein'
out
an'
in
in
just
savin'
it
from
buried
beach
sand.
The
force of
its
fallin'
sent
him
to his knees,
but
he held.
ham-
within
it.
Yet
came a whisperin'
like
wind
in pine
"The hammer
"An' how'll
o'
Len."
ye back to him, not knowin' where
I get
WIND
to find
rise
AN'
WAVE
AN'
FLAME
85
up
me
to the
end
he
sits,
or
I'll
all."
when down
south wind
up,
still
an' caught
him
clingtill
to
the hammer,
an'
he
Then
came a
turf, lookin' at
white moun-
him
an'
glowin'
all colors in
"Ay,
startin'
'tis
toward
bravely.
5
at last
0'
he came nigh
was
still
flamin'
up
in his smithy,
at a word.
If fear
was time
like
when he saw
0'
Len,
dark sea-water
through
him.
86
the
sthrong
it
was
coolin'.
"Say naught
till
I'm done!"
he hung
it
on the rainbow,
it
men
for
Northern Lights
in the night
"How came
Duallach?" he
ye here in
cried.
me
forge,
Artan, son
o'
"That
held yon
blowin'
there
o'
know
"When
hammer
to
me
him
that
owned
it
it
for
no other road
blast
was
for returnin'
the
warm
here."
came out
me up
"The winds
but too great
him
that handles
it;
a power
is
man.
What reward
yer wife?"
ye have, now?
Whether
gold, or
fairest o'
maids for
Then
"Naught care
over
"An' power
it fair."
men
WIND
"Then
'tis
AN'
WAVE
AN'
FLAME
87
"Dark are
little
Duallach, an'
shall
to
me
"Then
ye have one
fair as
He
that
same he plucked a
it
to Artan.
"Cast
it
'Darthuil!'
then
shall
But one
first lost
thing mind.
an'
Safely yer
own
is
she not
till
won back.
in searching
will there
When ye know not where to seek cry on me name at the sea-coast, an'
if
aid
aid
be for ye
late
wind,
forget.
Hold
As he
spoke, again
came a
gale, chill
Artan past cloud an' above surgthe hilltop above the beach
him on
cliff,
still
graspin'
little
small waves
first
gleam
o'
Hours
it
seemed
to him,
but minutes
it
was
in truth, before
he caught a long
88
swift
snowy
crest
of a green incomin'
wave.
"Darthuil!" he cried, an' the
of
it.
cliff
echo
made a song
dawn
As
upward
in the red
an' the
breaker swept
there
by
maid with
the gold o' the rose in her hair, an' the white o'
sea-foam in her
hand
an' led her over the hills to the house o' Dual-
lach, they
two
Now
that
wed
(an'
welcome
was half-brother
far hunting
at
missin*
from
lyin'
on the
edge an'
lettin'
to anger.
o'
"Fair for-
fair as the
sun at noon."
WIND
AN'
WAVE
him
AN'
FLAME
89
An'
like, cried
Sure,
shinin'
among
younger nor him, had won what he had not, an' soon
he
came
to
strife,
bade Artan
the
Lough
o'
the
Lone
little
island in
b'
it till
evil
Myrdu.
Len had
foretold,
yet thinkin'
at
all,
rode
was
When
o' the
sion;
but he made as
if
two
fierce
off to trace
many
Now
would
it
told Dart-
why he was
9o
the shelter o' forest an' lough o' the wildherness; but
she,
livin'
evil
o'
man.
left
hunt, than
Myrdu
a couple
o' logs
o' deer-skin.
Ay,
he'd
why
come.
" 'Tis Artan
is
me
for ye,"
down unaisy
like,
o'
her.
"Come,
an'
take ye where he
waitin' a
Not
moment was
was
bid, never
what
evil
might be
in store.
game
He
boat
o'
by the wather's
Then came
to his
o'
Len.
Never
fer-
darin' to waste
mounted, an'
WIND
pushed for the
in' till
AN'
WAVE
AN'
FLAME
91
for rest-
sea.
"Len!" he
stolen
called.
"Yer
aidin',
Len!
Darthuil
is
from me."
0'
till
lost
voice.
"Now
I give
ye wild servants,
Mind
call
When
o'
Now
Tis
to the
Northland has
the
Myrdu
carried her.
an'
wit, to
wave
power
Use yer
well."
there; so he
mounted again
92
among dhry
naught
else, its
Together they
all
ahead.
to hide the
ridin',
way
>
an'
beyond
it
he was
o'
carryin
two hounds
lopin'
any following
while not
that he
many
was pushin'
On
little
o'
dust
him uncertain
wind
o'
what was
So he thought
to serve
him
An' at once
command. When
it
him
to ride
Then Myrdu,
threw a handful
fearin'
o'
twigs behind
him
WIND
fallin'
AN'
WAVE
AN'
FLAME
93
way
on
all sides.
to clear
his path.
"Go forward!" he
As he spoke, the
an*
air,
But
still
was Myrdu
for helpin'.
He
an' as
dropped a
it
little
fell,
it
man.
clear desperate.
"Wave!" he
me!"
Up
then
it
spring; an'
it filled
horse an'
Myrdu
He
close, an'
turned his
him
again.
But as
for the
94
would
To
when
up from the
river, an'
o'
plen-
ishin';
was
wind
by
the
o'
the
THE
KING,
ON
gardens.
down
of the people,
was
so thick that
it
penetrate,
was
also hot.
Not a breath
of air
was
down
me
and
in a
sleep.
All
was
still
of the bees.
fierce rays
still
as the
seemed hushed
moving
1
in the garden.
from flower
Rob-
Aunt Naomi.
ert Scott,
98
began
to feel
bee.
"This
time I have
I
hive,
and I do
feel queer.
hope
am
The
bee
felt
fell
and dropped
Immediately the
bee was
its
wits
and flew
straight
back
King Solomon
it
sat
to see
what
felt
He
He rubbed
it
with
by a bee,"
the
King
angrily.
tip of
my
To-morrow
and
it
am
to be visited
by the Queen
of Sheba,
tied
will
up
in a sling."
THE
assistants,
lint,
KING,
99
many
or
box
of
ointment,
or
some
preparation
nose,
which
might
be
the
required.
tip
King Solomon's
and
especially
of
it,
carefully
through a
microscope.
"It
is
cian reassuringly.
little
from a very
sting in the
wound.
It will
be healed
in
"But meanwhile
"I
am
it
seriously
bee.
How
Knows
dared
things
it
sting
all living
on earth,
that I
and
in the waters.
not
am
is
Royal Master to
whom
all
homage and
respect
due?"
ceased, but His Majesty did not like
it
me
so that I
may
has to say."
ioo
"But
know
it
berlain, to
whom
the
command was
an hour
saucy
little
offender
is
The
butterflies in attendance
sternation
among
the bees.
If the
will
only
make matters
worse."
to
much
King Solomon.
way
all his
Court which
THE
The
KING,
101
The
goblins
is
re-
King Solomon.
"I,
"am
here
at thy bidding,
mighty
ruler, great
and
wise.
Com-
mand and
"It
is
with thee the culprit, the bee that did dare to attack
my
"It
nose with
its
sting?"
It did not
by
it
accident, owing
by the
heat,
and
not
its
wound.
Be
"Fear not
my
"Bid the
King Solomon.
102
"Knowest thou
royal master
am
thy
all
living things?"
"Thy
is
aware of
this.
It
who
is
in
duty
bound
when
in danger.
thought
for I
was
danger when
I fell."
"So was
Solomon.
"Punish
me
"I
am
but one
but
and humblest
slaves,
even I
day."
may
little
Even
commanded
in
"There
is
naught to laugh at
It pleases
I
me
well.
Some day
may
need
thee."
The
little
bee bowed
its
when
the
Queen
of
THE
King
in case
KING,
it
103
Sheba arrives/'
said,
His Majesty
his Court.
said, curt-
would
put
I
fain put
it
to the test.
Hitherto
all
questions
to thee hast
difficulty.
But
have sworn
wit.
to puzzle thy
my
woman's
Be
heedful."
mon,
rising
and bowing
and
if
shall
be duly rewarded.
wit and
wisdom
to the
whole world."
girl
attend-
bouquet of flowers.
The Queen
in
of
flowers,
who
man on
earth,
104
real
and which
King Solomon.
Which
is
it?"
at the flowers.
Both bunches
sat, it
From where he
difference.
was im-
any
He
if
and he knit
his
brows as
The
Solomon shook
his
me," he
said.
"Your Majesty
shall
"And
riously.
at
Queen
of
Sheba impe-
"So be
fully
it,"
did,
the
little
bee which
had
settled
THE
ing to
it
KING,
105
obey
my
bee.
in flew the
Queen
of
Sheba
all
it
flew,
and now
the
courtiers,
air.
who
eagerly watched
hesitation,
it
flight
through the
Without any
settled
on the bouquet
"Thou
hast
my
King Solomon,
tiniest of
rising,
my
subjects.
The bouquet
the monarch's
wisdom
him out
of his difficulty.
"Your Majesty
said the Queen.
is
man on
King
earth,"
"Thanks,
bee,
my
little
to the
and
it
ONCE upon
though
it
it
was,
my
whose
And
She
used to
let
make her do
all
and never
At
of
to her:
"Go,
it
fill it
at the
bring
home
to
me
full,
woe
betide you."
to find the
For
Well of
End, and,
she did,
how
home
met
to tell
when a queer
her where
it
little
old
woman,
all
was, and
how
So
1 From English Fairy Tales, by Joseph Jacobs. G. P. Putnam's Sons, Publishers, New York and
Courtesy of
London
109
no
and
at last ar-
in
all
ran
She
tried
and she
tried again,
but every
time
it
down and
cried as
up
it
said.
said,
fill
"my
stepmother has
with water
fill
me
all this
long
way
to
this sieve
I can't
it
me
to
do
tell
whatever
I'll
you how
So the
to
it."
girl
"Stop
it
it
with clay,
And
and then
it
then
will
So the
girl
in
it
End; and
this
to go
its
away.
harm can a
frog do
me?"
End.
nothing at
That very evening they heard something tap-tapping at the door low down, and a voice cried out:
"Open the door, my hinny, my heart, Open the door, my own darling; Mind you the words that you and I spoke, Down in the meadow, at the World's End Well."
had
about
it,
must keep
mother.
For
frog.
would have
obey a nasty
So the
girl
ii2
hopped, and
girl,
hopped, and
it
it
jumped,
till it
reached
the
and then
said:
"Lift
Lift
Remember
Down
But the
"Lift
it
in the
meadow by
End
Well."
up
this instant,
you hussy!
must keep
their promises!"
So at
it
up on
it
to her lap,
and
at last
said:
heart,
"Give
Give
Remember
you and
I spake,
mind doing
well.
And when
said:
"Go with me to bed, my hinny, my heart, Go with me to bed, my own darling; Mind you the words you spake to me,
Down by
But
said:
till
her stepmother
girls
promised,
girl;
must keep
113
Do what
girl
as far
Well, just as
the
say but:
"Chop off my head, my hinny, my heart, Chop off my head, my own darling; Remember the promise you made to me, Down by the cold well so weary."
At
first
the frog
had done
End.
But when
she went
head,
and
lo!
some
girl
would do
whole
and chop
off his
frog,
and she
may
to
he was going
ii 4
and
was, that
it
was
was married
to a prince.
WINGS
WINGS
A
asked,
PEASANT
wept.
girl
was feeding
geese,
and she
The
farmer's daughter
came by and
"What
"Oh,
wish
"You stupid!"
the
farmer's daughter.
"Of
wings for?"
"I want to
fly
up
into the
my
little
little
Then
again,
and said
"You
How
grow wings?
Your
They
When
away
ders,
had
went
But
daughter came
Edited
1 From The Sweet-Scented Name, by Fedor Sologub. by Stephen Graham. Constable & Company, London.
117
u8
who was
are
try-
grow wings
in the garden,
"What
you doing
am
Then
cried out,
"You
stupid farm-girl;
if
she
grow wings.
And when
to the
oil
and rubbed
By and by
and
child?"
said to her,
"What
my
was
When
"It
is
only
wings."
And
she
when she
got indoors
it,
filled
in the
sun
WINGS
and waited
for her wings to
119
out.
come
Presently a
princess passed
told
for her
wings to grow.
princess
The
laughed
scornfully
and
exclaimed,
"What a
nothing.
foolish girl!
No
one who
wings."
The
went
down
wings to come.
the
Very soon
all
young
girls in the
country round
The Fairy
of the
this strange
you
all
wings
and
let
you
all
who
will
want
to stay at
home
120
the children?
to
first
one
of
of you, namely,
all."
little
peasant
girl's
shoulsing.
to fly
up
into the
sky and
CHRISTMAS STORIES
IN
No
fairies
were
uncom-
This
girl
pretty.
cross word,
fire
it
till
Dame
new
little
girl
but she
at the time
and
said,
"My
child, I
am
going a long
journey to
visit
north country.
1
Browne.
& Company.
126
my
the crossest
woman
alive,
will
been a good
feel lonely.
tell
you what
to
do when you
the cush-
Lay
down on
and
say, 'Chair of
It
my
grand-
mother,
fairy,
tell
me
a story.'
who
it
when
she gave
to
me
any occasion
it,
to travel,
to seat
yourself in
and
say,
'Chair of
my
grandmother,
take
me
such a way.'
It will
wish; but
mind
you
set out,
same
corner."
Having
said this,
Dame
Snowflower gathered
and looked
and cat as
usual.
She
when
the evening
fell
Then
my
grandmother,
tell
me
a story."
127
clear voice
when a
. .
said:
Listen to
Cuckoo!"
in the midst of
for
their
fields
were
them
all
who
stall
between them.
It
was a hut
built of clay
and
wattles.
was no window.
was
wood enough
worked
in
to
make
a sufficient
fire.
There they
little
encouragement.
"The people
in shoes,
might be found.
mending.
live
and
a cottage garden,
128
lived in the
kingdom, and, by
own
account,
His awls
his stall in
were new; he
set
up
The
villagers soon
In short,
all
to the
new
The season
So
to feast
their
own
brewing.
Worse than
snow was
Their
spread
it
now
all
white and
silent;
but that
to
be found
in
soil
and
one
of these, a
rough gnarled
of
it
" 'Shall
we
sit
Let us chop
us warm.'
it
up
work
will
make
129
wood on
we must have a
fire,'
replied Spare.
are,
me
in
with
it.
Poor as we
nobody
as ours.'
"Scrub liked a
little
with
all their
might
till,
the great old root was safe on the hearth, and begin-
In
down
to then
beer and
with
fir
" 'Long
life
to ourselves, brother!'
said Spare.
hope you
will
may we
what
is
fire
on Christmas
but
130
bird's voice
ing.
May
morn-
"
'It is
ened.
"
'May be not/
said Spare;
and out
of the deep
Much
still
more
when
it
said:
is this?'
"
'It's
went
one
woke
till
the heat of
your
fire
made me
think
it
now
in
since
my
lodging, let
me
stay
your hut
only want
a hole to sleep
and when
I
will
I go
on
my
travels next
summer be assured
for
your
trouble.'
wondering
if it
'I'll
make
here
slice of
Come
help us to
keep Christmas!'
131
up the
slice,
brown
jug, for
it
slept
grew
less,
by
own
cry to
let
"
my
the world to
men
of the spring.
There
is
no coun-
bud or
Give
me
another
me on my
journey, and
me what
month's end.'
low;
ask:
at length
a lucky
'if
a great traveler
who
know
of any
132
such poor
my
know nothing
of
My
knowledge
is
on the earth.
hard by the
is
one of them
called
its
fall
sound
like
and
of them.
As
it is
laurel.
Some
tree.
Its leaves
never
fall,
heart in spite of
selves as
make them-
merry
in a
hut as
in a palace.'
bring
me
fool
a leaf
off
that
cried Spare.
" 'Now,
brother,
don't
be
'
said
Scrub.
Dear master
me
one of them!'
its
The
brothers were
133
said, in scorn,
left
Fairfeather,
whom
to Scrub,
They sowed
cabbage, and
now
was gone,
a scanty
worked
living.
make out
At the end
of the lat-
notice.
Old
for-
when
at daybreak,
on the
first
of
Let
me
in
with
my
presents/
134
common
laurel,
only
it
had
a fresher green.
" 'Here,'
it
green to Spare,
end.
is
Give
me
slice of
slice,
So much gold
in the cobbler's
wisdom
of
my
choice
'
he
said, holding
up
wonder a
sensi-
like so far.'
the
slice,
teous.
If
go on the same journey every year, and for your hospitable entertainment will think
it
no trouble
to bring
me
a golden
leaf
one;'
on
were a crown-jewel,
said:
135
tree,'
me
This
is
and
it
ought to
'Did ever
!
man
fling
of getting rich
in the
Much
good
do
come with
gold,
till
vowed
ble
his brother
was not
and
his golden
leaf,
tell
the
vil-
lagers.
and
when
and
The new
the
him
their shoes to
a grand wed-
who was
him a disgrace
to the family.
136
"Indeed,
who heard
tinker, a beggar-boy,
As
in
for Scrub,
quite as fine.
satisfaction,
to everybody's
had a
and a
fat
Fairfeather, too,
but neither
buy
this
grandeur
had
to
by
and worked
in the
cabbage garden.
field
be-
Every day
his coat
;
grew
but
and the wonder was, that from the time they began
to
poor ass with which he traveled the country, the beggar-boy kept out of mischief, and the old
woman
at
to her cat or
"Every
first
came tapping
137
Spare.
nobly with wheaten bread and honey, for she had some
notion of persuading
him
to bring
in-
away
fit
to eat barley
company
for
slept so
spring.
know
not
how many
years passed
lord,
who owned
His castle
strong, with
that village,
came
to the neighborhood.
It
belonged
for
twenty years,
then, only he
was melan-
The cause
of his grief
somedis-
body
had spoken
was
turned out of
office,
and banished
own
estate.
There he lived
for
some weeks
in
138
The
villagers
lest
he should raise
time his lord-
one day
in the harvest
meadow
it
stream, and
fell
"How
away
his melan-
and
fishing,
and making
merry
in his hall,
where
all
travelers
were entertained
and
all
company
lost
came
their
to the
cobbler's hut
rich
their
friends,
beauties
old, wits
out
of fashion,
came
and whatever
their troubles
had been,
The
rich
and the
villagers
in him.
"By
city,
this
who had
139
command
is
the
first
merry
leaf.
him he was
and give me a
little
as
he had
of his
slice
which
it
in former times,
was
so thick
and
large;
with
way
to court.
there.
Every-
see in such a
his
majesty con-
140
banquet
hall.
The
and judges
grew
The
lords
forgot
their
and the
and min-
made
friends
favor.
among
showed no "As
for Spare,
him
rich robes
all
and another
midst of
his
grandeur he
ably mean.
to
it
One day
drawn
by the
why Spare
didn't give
to a beggar.
" 'High
me
me
came
I find
it
easier to
serves to keep
it
was
my
holi-
day garment.'
this
manded
doublet.
So things went,
till
141
when
the cuckoo
came with
for
"Think
making
'Here
we
are
humdrum
place,
and Spare
What would
make you
all
a lord and
me
we
shall have.'
this excellent reasoning,
it
"Scrub thought
and
their
cot-
Fairfeather
could
not think
of
her
wooden bowls,
Scrub con-
Fairfeather took her looking-glass and Scrub his drinking horn, which happened to have a very thin rim of
silver,
leaf
carefully
they reached
142
"How
say, but
when
they came
"
'I 'If I
into a
wood both
it
and hungry.
had known
was so
which we
the cupboard.'
how
on
the
way
to a palace?
this tree,
they
are safe.'
fine
prospects,
woman had
staff in
slipped from
behind the
great wallet
tree,
with a long
side.
by her
said, 'for I
know ye
are such
by your
though
my
and
my
scend to
me where
may
find
some water
to
mix
a bottle of
it is
mead which
I carry in
my
wallet, because
wooden
and having a
small
its
handle.
143
me
only
made
cheese,
and a wheaten
like.'
woman
they
were not at
castles they
try,
all
had
the wallet.
sit
The
woman
down
wallet
was
The
old
woman was
all
wood-witch; her
her
time was spent in making mead, which, being boiled with curious herbs and
ing
all
spells,
of
maktheir
who drank
it
fall
asleep and
dream with
eyes open.
Wherever
their
and who-
H4
by the
dwarfs.
The
cobbler had a
lump
hunk
of bread.
when
the old
woman
raised
her
shrill voice
"'What
ho,
my
sons!
the harvest.'
"No
little
'
have ye done
have been
nothing.
everybody
minds
of
no
to let
you
see I
was not
idle.'
And he
tossed
it,
down
which he
had carried
like a
bundle on his
little
it,
back.
tell
"To
explain
must
you that
the forest was not far from the great city where Spare
lived in such esteem.
All things
145
it
worthy man
let all
without a servant.
majesty, therefore, to
men understand
his royal
own pages
was Tin-
upon him.
The name
of this youth
seltoes, and,
pages,
nobody
had grander
notions.
silver
and
his
As
for
was always
in the
leaves
came
to his assistance;
new
service.
Some
said
it
day on
but for
it
ber that Spare had been a cobbler, and the page took
to let
him
see
how
unfashionable
was
146
morning
earlier
window
it
and brought
woman; 'where
is
"By
this time,
the
all,
looking-glass,
scarlet
the
coat,
the
and went
off to their
was a
and
all
woman's
want
whence
it
came.
"Scarcely
was
it
147
made
the
in
wood
getting
fire
up a hut
flint
with a
and
who had
told
him
the like
of at court.
Then they
So
it
after
day
in the forest,
making
their
and
berries,
knew nothing
about
it.
servant questioned,
all
why
made about an
among
among
pay
The king
him
half
enough
taxes, the
148
some new
fully dull,
to ask
and
be
The
had
lost
proclaimed a reward of
who
made known
in the city,
when
by
some with
tales of
in their
much news
concerning
sorts
came out
and
Spare as
satis-
now
was no example
in all the
palace records
all his
goods
in favor of Tinseltoes.
"That royal
page was
edict
149
had
given him;
was glad
to
make
back window,
who vowed
let
himself
down
came down
late
fagots, stopped
ment.
" 'What's the matter, friend?' said Spare.
'Did you
never see a
fore?'
" 'Why,'
said
the
'the
last
morning
window, and
I'll
it.'
'Can you
me which way
walked
" 'As I
said the
woodman,
off to his
'a
dwarf,
up and ran
mother in
the forest.'
" 'Honest friend,' said Spare, taking off the last of
his fine clothes (a grass-green mantle edged with gold),
150
I'll
you
this
if
you
me back
"
'It
my
doublet.'
to carry fagots in,' said the
woodman.
lies
end of
this lane,'
and he
"Determined to find
his
doublet,
him
in the for-
among
the
see.
Moreover, the night came on; the wood was dark and
tangled, but here
its alleys,
ingales sang.
to find
some place
gleaming
It
of shelter.
At
last the
red light of a
fire,
there
was nothing
to fear,
and
bed of
made
of plaited
by the
fire.
so changed
was her
151
Whence come ye
so late?
my
good
is
man
wood, and
before supper!'
" 'A good rest to him,' said Spare, perceiving he was
not known.
ing,
'I
come from
and have
lost
my way
" 'Sit
Fairfeather,
will
and
tell
me
used to think of
it
long ago
" 'Did
fair
when
foolish.'
'So
dame
my
there,
and we
left
our moor-
An
old
woman
we
fell
asleep
and dreamt
but when
we woke,
everything had
my
looking-glass,
my
scarlet
my
in place of all,
him that
152
though we
live in this
poor hut.'
taking up
" 'It is a
shabby doublet,
was
his
still
sewed
in its lining.
would
in,
it,
however
I
who
"Scrub gave one closing snore, and muttered something about the root being hard; but he rubbed his
eyes, gazed
up at
is
his brother,
and
said
" 'Spare,
court,
How
my own
and
Come,
let
us eat eggs,
In the morning we
will return to
our
own
moon
and bring us
leaves.'
So
in the
little
morning
returned,
the worse
153^
to ask the
news of
court,
they had
made
their
fortune.
somehow they
liked to go
lasts
back
and awls he
had hidden
trade,
They mended
and
ladies as well
as the
common
Their
and
all
that were
to the
came
"The
service.
rich brought
them
them
The hut
itself
changed, no one
its
knew how.
red and
roof;
door.
Moreover, the
first
of April,
for
Scrub and So
it
I last
ITperor
It
happened
in
at the time
Jerusalem.
down over
was
way on
And
it
came
from heaven.
home
in their
own
moon
The
silence
and the
stillness
were as profound as
still
the darkness.
The
rivers stood
in their courses,
stir,
ceased to quiver.
shore,
Had any
turned to
The
grass
by
Selma Lagerlof.
157
158
was afraid
fall,
and the
On
this night the wild beasts did not seek their prey,
the serpents did not sting, and the dogs did not bark.
to
an
evil deed.
No
false
lock,
have drawn
a drop of blood.
this
In Rome, during
to the
just
But
He
re-
know
if it
and he had
will in the
friends,
was on
way
let
it
to
perform
this sacrifice.
Augustus
he
was
old,
and
him
He himself
THE EMPEROR'S
with the doves for the
sacrifice.
VISION
159
No
priests or soldiers
way
in the night
the slaves,
who
and
all
and
Only when
that some-
thing unusual
It could not
was taking
be a night like
cliff
up on the
At
first
they thought
was an
old, distorted
figure
on the
Finally
it
was apparent
to
them that
it
had never
If the
seen.
This old
woman
pres-
was awe-inspiring!
.
ent, they
would
all
have
fled to their
160
"It
"who has
lived as
many
native shores.
just to-night?
Why
What
she,
who
on
will
whom
They were
had the
sibyl stirred.
lifeless.
cliff,
But she
sat as
still
as
up on the
hill
more
She
was happening
away.
all
his retinue
None
him.
of
in front of
And
What
silence!
Not even
the Tiber's
hollow
murmur
The
air
seemed to
and
their
They
161
show
that he
was
afraid,
and
every one told the Emperor that this was a good omen.
All
Nature held
its
sacri-
sibyl
sibyl
was
so absorbed
know
that Augustus
in
had come up
spirit to
to the Capitol.
grass-tufts.
and
felt
No,
it
was not
sheep.
of sheep.
Then she
fire.
It
burned
to
in
it.
The shepherds
lay asleep
by the
fire,
But the
little
animals
tails
that stole
up
to the
fire,
And
yet the
and the
62
wild animals
beings.
down
to
rest
beside
the
human
hill
back of
her.
know
Emperor
it.
But
bird.
of the wing,
it
freed itself
and
When
this
They
believed that
it
was she
who caused
the misfortune.
all
and that
came trembling
it
She heard
long be-
marked
that
it
did not
come from
earth, but
At
last
saw
light,
dark-
ness.
They were
flocks of angels,
who, singing
While the
sibyl
was
new
sacrifice.
THE EMPEROR'S
He washed
the other dove.
VISION
163
and took up
his
full
strength to hold
from
his hand,
up
penetrable night.
appalled!
genius.
He
He
fell
upon
his knees
implored him
for
Nor
She was
whole soul
to the angel-song,
last
it
which
At
became
so power-
They
raised themsilverlines,
selves
on
migratory birds.
Some
their hands;
song rang out as merry as child-laughter, and as carefree as the lark's thrill.
this,
When
where
they lived, to
of the miracle.
They groped
their
way forward on
a narrow, wind-
Suddenly
it
grew
light
and the
city
164
When
It
city,
was a wretched
cliff
and
Star,
the naked
for a
back
wall.
Over
it
hung the
Some seated
shining wings.
The
all
mountain
city,
They
felt
fresh,
but
moon
lit
up the
cir-
And
down and
When
knees.
this miracle
happened, Augustus
proud
their
his friends
and
on
165
"Thy
swered thee.
Thou
art the
god who
be wor-
And
this cry of
in their
It
was as
if
dark cloud had arisen from the abyss and rushed down
the mountain height.
in her ex-
treme age!
her head, her joints were enlarged, and the dark skin,
tree,
Emperor.
The
He saw
in the
Within
the stable he
little
child,
who
floor.
166
And
"There
is
the god
who
shall
her, as
from a
spirit of
mighty
to burn, her
hands were
seemed not
to
And
"Upon
be worshiped
but not
frail
mortals."
When
down
disappeared.
any temple
to
him on Capitol
Hill.
In place of
Child,
it
and
called
HEAVEN'S ALTARAra
Coeli.
ITby
of tea of
of St. Stephen,
and Teig
sat alone
naught
in his
him as
ice
The
tuft
hearth
just;
and
he
o' real
gold hid
it
cupboard bare
"Gold
is
An'
if
ye
have naught
He was
I69
170
who were
come begging.
And on
the heels of
giving
who would be
Barney
his dinner?
in a
Barney
"Hey,
there being
in a
be
all
the
same
month's
And he
fell
A
down
knock came
in his chair
at the door.
and held
his tongue.
It
"Teig, Teig!"
voice.
pay
needin' food."
his tongue,
and never
on
to
feet going
Then he saw
to
it
was
171
its
the
two of us?
have
The wind
we
Masther,
will
ye take us in?"
But Teig
down
the road.
It
small
feet, running.
was the
wee
Cassie,
Ye'll not
be forget-
And
clear, as she
passed
down
the road:
"Listen
all
ye,
'tis
Mind that ye keep it, this holy even. Open your door an' greet ye the stranger
For ye mind that the wee Lord had naught but a manger.
Mhuire as traugh!
"Feed ye the hungry an' rest ye the weary, This ye must do for the sake of Our Mary. 'Tis well that ye mind ye who sit by the fire That the Lord he was born in a dark and cold byre. Mhuire as traugh!
in his ears.
"A
let
million
me
be!
man
try to keep
what
is
172
days?"
And
hundreds of wee
dial,
drew
itself out.
Teig was
filled
when he saw
laughed.
"We
"Ye
man
hereabout with
making ready.
spread and set
it;
the table
and
in,
came
and they
sat
The
feasting began
173
Suddenly a wee
had
my wee
red cap!
And
it
on
sight.
telling
happened
just as I
am
Another wee
after the
man
first.
And
"By my
way
myself!
Faith there
is
no harm done
if
So he sang the
a wee
fairies'
air
dropped
but the next he was clapping the cap on his head and
crying:
"Spain!"
Then
fairies,
whistup
he
174
was standing
ail
about him.
He was
in a great city.
The doorways
air
of the houses
crowd of beggars.
"What's the meanin'
the
fairies.
o'
"They
When
to those that
have nothing, so on
And
then far
down
the street
of a
"Listen
all
ye,
'tis
Mind
"Curse
that ye keep
this
holy even."
"can a song
fly afther
ye?"
And
175
Outside
Teig saw
of a street.
"What
fairies.
the
to
him;
A
and
child
in her
came
window
hand was a
lighted candle.
down
and
"Open your door an' greet ye the stranger For ye mind that the wee Lord had naught but a manger. Mhuire as traugh!"
work!"
cried Teig,
and he
set the
had
But he
passed by
birds
He saw
and
heavy with
gifts;
76
Child.
"Now
ace!"
King
of England's pal-
Whist
and
first
after them;
and the
thing he
knew he was
in
London, not an
It
was a grander
had seen
in
The
was
filled entirely
great doors were open for the poor and the homeless
to
come
feast
in
fire
and
And many
own hands.
gave
it
a hungry
his
to give
in return.
might be a
it
bit of
or
was
fairies
that
was
fed,
But he heard a
bit of her
177
from
his head, he
threw
after her.
No
hall
saw him.
"Where
is
Bring him
along
him!"
it
moment
all
up and the
rang with:
"Aye,
him,
kill
him!"
fear put the leash
and
on
his tongue;
whisper:
"I have done evil to no one
no
one!"
"Maybe,"
Come,
night?
tell
us,
any one
this
If
ye have,
we
will
pardon ye."
for he
was knowing
night.
full
well there
was no good
to
him that
178
"Then ye must
"Will ye try
hanging or beheading?"
"Hanging, please, your Majesty," said Teig.
off.
"Your Majesty," he
me
last
request?"
"Thank
fond
with
of,
it
ye.
and
I lost it
a while ago;
if
could be hung
on, I
my
wish
Up and
flew,
and
whistand
still,
away out
of sight.
When
by
his
he
sitting close
own
The hands
of the
clock were
the bolt
was
The
fairies' lights
snatch of a sons::
179
"Tis well that ye mind ye who sit by the fire That the Lord he was born in a dark and cold byre. Mhuire as traugh!"
"Wait
ye,
to
He
filled his
hands
full of the
it.
shining
The
miller's
there, peering at
him
"Take those
to the
And
up
Ye
tell
Jamie
to bring
all
night.'
Hurry now!"
tramp of her
feet
hol-
"Hey
there,
Barney,
will
ye come over
for a
sup?"
GREEK LEGENDS
IN
fair
in
mountain-streams.
lightest
Among them
all
her.
So
if
ever any
hearts, they
to her:
sit
betale
it
Hera
in her bower,
that she
come not
forth
and
See thou
make
we
garland to
"What
asked.
will
tires of
my
tales?" she
"When
that time
comes we
away and
cast
Stokes, London.
186
herself
When Hera
looked
brow would
relax,
"What
hast tbou
come
for
would ask.
"I had a great longing to talk with thee, great Hera,"
a wondrous new
tale to
tell
thee."
"Thy
tales are as
many
"The day
is
mud which
is
I shall tell
"Go
to,
if it
pleases
me
I will
So Echo would
sit
at Hera's feet,
tell
and
her
gift of
into ro-
from them at
who can
lie,
some
187
own
experience.
and her
jealousies,
listen
entranced, while
the
hearts' content
But
at last
of reckoning
when
Hera found out the prank which Echo had played upon
her so long, and the
lightning.
fire
"The
gift
shall
be
be
if
dumb
thou
till
some one
else
wilt,
needs repeat once more the last words that have been
spoken."
"Alas! alas!" cried the "Alas! alas!" cried
nymphs
in chorus.
Echo
after them,
So did
it
come
or no.
Now,
strayed
it
away from
companions
in the hunt,
and
when he
tried to find
further,
188
and
way upon
in the
He was now
bloom
man-
who saw
But,
his
for him.
When
shall live
and be
And
neither
his
words came
man
own
pleasure;
loved
him
he found
what he would.
of grief;
unreturned,
Now, when
the
alone through the woods, they, too, loved him for his
But
189
trees
see
too.
them At
and amongst
last,
when he
"Where
art thou?"
answered Echo.
When
again.
Then he
called
"I
am
here in the
"Come
"Come
hither," he cried.
Wondering
he looked
all
at seeing no one, he
went
for-
when next he
But
let
he
called, she
had
and
so
show him
igo
her hiding-place.
down
of
nodding
the trees
she wrung her hands, and the salt tears dropped from
When
he saw
calls
me?" he
asked.
"Who
calls
me?"
she answered.
him.
"Who
"Who
"Have
cissus?"
still
hands beseechingly.
"Tell me," he cried,
"who
art thou
thou
call
me?"
dost thou call
"Why
At
me?"
said she.
this
he grew angry.
art,
me
a pretty
191
dance through the woods, and now thou dost nought but
said she.
word
At
last, tired
the pool, and would not look at her nor speak to her
again.
longing to speak to
him and
word
So at
last in
After
when
his anger
As he held out
his
hand
and
his heart,
by
With a
arms toward
it,
and
arms
to him,
When
192
down
thee."
the
"I
love
rock.
and
it
tried to
vanished
away.
ples,
The
breast.
and the
up
at
Once again he
and once again and
bent towards
it fled
and
tried to clasp
it,
Time
he gave
up
in despair,
and
sat looking
down
with the teardrops falling from his eyes; and the figure
in the pool wept, too,
The
more
till
burn
in his breast,
at
to
it
So for the
last
#
in tne
But he
193
knew not
that
it
was
his
own
face he
Thus were
the
fulfilled,
all
that
had
When
self
she found she could not save him, she cast hertill
and naught but her voice remained and the curse that
was on
her.
So to
this
day she
lives,
a formless voice
halls.
Herself
no man has seen since the day Narcissus saw her wringing her hands for love of
rushes,
bul-
But her
voice
we
now
she will
if
my
love,
come back
come
back
to
me!"
brown
pool, on the grass that
By
tears, there
sprang up a
94
crown of
And
to this
day
in
many
a land
men
own
was drowned
in the waters
AGAIN
HOW THE
ASS
ONCE upon
amuse
himself.
man who
night but
left
him plenty
of
money, but
was
fast vanishing,
and
when
the
money
come
see
to
of the youth)
He might have
soldier, or a scholar, or
a worker in gold,
so
it
had
all
day long
of learning
to
in the house
books of
spells.
of sorcery, he
to
pleasures
the
chariot-racing,
the art.
1 Reprinted by permission from The Red Book of Romance. Edited by Andrew Lang. Longmans, Green & Company.
197
ig8
ingly,
working of some
silver
mines in
the
home
of all magic.
So when Apuleius
man
Now,
if
Thessaly
it is
also
them.
Indeed, they
made
mean and
foolish ways.
farthing, refused to
in consequence there
was nothing
to the wall.
to sit
upon except
room
in these for
retire to her
man
en-
tered.
"It
money on moveable
would be sure
house."
They
to hear of
and
in
adding
form or another.
Sometimes he
HOW THE
sent
ASS
199
down a
Egypt, to
in sheep
sell it
Then he
dealt
and
cattle,
so with safety
made
was
for
lent large
sums
at high in-
terest to the
of the neighborhood,
else
and so
cunning was he
whoever
might be ruined,
Milo managed
to
make
large profits.
in his
way
he found
too
much
through the
to
It
was
full of statues of
famous men
whom Hypata
made up
be
his
it
had given
birth; but as
Apuleius had
mind
that
nothing
in
Thessaly
could
what
seemed,
he
supposed
who had
oxen
fallen
under
enchantment,
and
that
the
whom
he
met
men and
women.
200
bouse,
to force
an entrance.
''Here
an adventure at
last,"
stole softly
up behind them,
and drawing
the heart.
his short
would
befall,
by a door
He
said nothing of
Milo his
As has been
seen, Apuleius
his heart
Still,
he was
it,
know
that there
was no help
for
and
was
in his place.
The
first
witnesses against
At
two
When
blew another
blast,
Then
there
was not
HOW THE
was
city.
slight,
ASS
201
wound
nounced sentence.
demned
to death, but
he must
first
of all be tortured,
names
of the
abetted him.
By
But
to his surprise,
when he
he
none would be
his friend,
in-
women
demanded
to
The judge
assented to
and
in
wrap-
The
face of the
man whom
he
has murdered.
He
202
his
all
As soon
had
struck him.
"How was
it
you managed
to
make them
alive?"
"Oh, that
is
simple enough
sorceress
for a mistress,"
by.
spells
whom
the hairs
and
former dwelling."
is
"They may
the
home
of
would
let
me
work?
and you
also,"
he added.
name;
HOW THE
fall,
ASS
203
cannot
tell
to
own
shape."
stir
risen
"Come
hither,
said;
and without
Entering
Pam-
spells
nails
became claws, her eyes grew round and her nose hooked,
and a
little
brown owl
"Not
yet," he answered.
"I want to
know how
she
woman
again."
sure," replied Fotis.
"That
is
quite easy,
you may be
204
TWENTY-FOUR UNUSUAL STORIES "My mistress never runs any risks. A cup of
laurel leaves
water
floatit
and anise
all
thousand times."
"Turn me
you and
five
and
I will give
hundred
Fotis,
But
either Fotis
was not so
skilful as she
thought
herself, or in her
on one
shelf,
fearful
became
body.
gale,
she had done, and Apuleius, glancing at a polished mirror from Corinth which
hung on the
I will
seek for
to
do not want
be
an ass at
all;
HOW THE
if
ASS
205
am
I shall
match to-morrow."
So Fotis ran out to draw the water from the spring,
while Apuleius opened some boxes with his teeth, and
But
alas!
Fotis
for
had deceived
herself.
when Apuleius
tried to
else,
In despair the
girl
spells,
and began
who
was
still
man
in all
also.
eagerly
down them
long
scroll.
"Of course,
light.
remember now,"
"What a comfort
you
to
that nothing
more
is
needed
to restore
rose leaves!"
The mind
spirits
fell
of Apuleius
again
when
him that he
but must
lie in
own
horse,
206
and be tended,
servant.
he was tended at
all,
by
his
own
"However,
solingly.
it
will
little
shrine
placed before
will
it.
be yourself again."
who was
right
on the shoulder.
in a
shining brightly
It
he would
enough
to reach
till
So up he got, and
when with a
the
air.
up
Yes!
was
mouth
his balance
HOW THE
gave way, and
ASS
207
the floor.
in an-
The
"Oh,
I see
at,
he; "would you eat roses that I put there for the god-
dess?
I don't
master, or
how
you got
you do no more
mischief."
with his
tied
fists,
his neck,
him up
it
in
Now
some of
by any
one, took
all
money
some
was
managed
to
in
who
at
all.
Then they
money on
which they
all set
As
this,
dis-
tance
off, it
took then
manv hours
and on
208
the
grew
like weeds.
The
al-
man
in his present
he
left
his
way.
whom
he served.
After
soldier,
and by him
of pastry,
man who
those
This
man
did not
brothers lived in a tent on the other side of the garden, and the ass
was given
to
them
to send to
and fro
his brother
if
their lord
should
command them.
When
donkey
in
HOW THE
ASS
209
air.
it
On
their return,
of pastry
them,
for
not so
much
as a crumb.
that, im-
possible
it
by
of cakes at
to
for
it
it
but
took
make a
fresh supply.
And
so they did,
it.
and
"So
it is
cost us our
same myself,
nicer
And
more amused
210
Of course
who
him
instantly sent to
buy the
fresh tricks.
This the
this
man
wonder-
of the
And
many
chief
much
among
made
For
asus,
five
bare as of yore.
years Thyasus
proclaimed that a great feast would be held in his garden, after which plays would be acted, and in one of
them
his
and as
warm moonlight
when he
HOW THE
ASS
211
He was
my
a
feet.
I will
will
make me
feel like
man
would much have surprised any one who had seen him,
for asses do not in general care about washing.
When
himself
all
first
After that he
to sleep
felt
quite comfortable,
under a
tree.
He
voices singing a
hymn, and,
saw a
down
to the shore to
priest
roses.
At
this sight
in the heart of
Apuleius.
roses,
It
for
and
So
would not
any one
to
grow them
in the city.
him
so wistfully that,
and
212
held
it
feeling that
not understand.
Scarcely had Apuleius swallowed one of the roses,
when
ened
rosy.
fell
from him,
his
back
straightfair
and
more became
and
joined in the
all
hymn, and
there
with a sweeter
voice or
more thankful
spirit
LIFE
This story is part of a longer one called "Alexander the Son of Philip." Alexander, a little bootblack living in modern Athens, is befriended by a blind old schoolmaster, Kyr Themistocli, to whom he promises to come each day and read the daily newspaper. For this service the little
"Aleko"
they
is
By way
of get-
man
what do
"My
and the
mother
little
lives in
ones, but
my
father
there."
past tense.
is
his
name?"
is
Alexandros Vasiliou?"
Your master has taught you about him "Of course," said Aleko, frowning.
1 By permission from Under Greek Skies, by Julia Dragoumis. Copyright by E. P. Dutton & Company.
2U
216
The old man smiled. There is a story about him which you have not heard perhaps. Do you know how Alexander the King got the Water of Life?"
Aleko shook his head:
part."
"We
"Well, I will
tell
you about
it.
Listen:
WHEN
the
to them:
all
Kingdoms
and when
all
the
him
" 'Ye
who
who know
tell
all
that
is
writto
ten in the
live for
Book
me what
must do
many
thy power!
But what
no one
in
is
written in the
Book
of Fate
written,
it.
and
is
efface
There
one thing only, that can make thee enjoy thy kingdom
lives of
hills,
but
very hard to
'whether
it
was.'
!
we
command
Know
HOW THE
then that he alone
217
Water
of Life
this water,
must
fly
between
lie
The bones
in
who have
But
if
beyond them a
of Life.
sleepless
Him
also
"Then Alexander
the
his
who had
With one
like
a bird.
triumphant bound he was through the closing mountains so swiftly that only three hairs of his flowing
tail
were caught
in
closed.
Then Alexander
filled his vial
sleepless
dragon,
turned.
his palace, so
weary was he
and
left the
Water
of Life
unguarded.
And
it
so
happened that
away.
And
218
some
is
and that
why,
Now
to
hand
and
guarded his
sleep,
could not hide the truth, and she told him that, not
"Then
the king
waxed
and he
cast a curse
upon
his sister,
waist
live
and
tion of
man.
And
to this
happens that
sail
woman
and
Strange to say,
a ship passes
7
when
"And should
who
it is
that
maid
in her
great grief tosses her white arms and her long golden
hair wildly about, and troubles the water, and sinks
the ship.
But
if,
when
up with
'He
lives
and
reigns,'
then the
HOW THE
maid's heart
the ship
is
is
219
till
out of sight.
"And
sing
this is
how
sailors learn
new
them when
the old
When
"That
man
said slowly:
I like it."
not
true but
THE
FIRST
CORN
ALONG
day he played
lucky.
a young
a great gambler.
Every-
at sticks,
had
told
to stop
it.
and
his lance.
and when
he had ex-
When
"My
and
I I
this,
you about
it.
Now
You
You
have done.
live
cannot
here in
my
must go away."
1
By
special permission
226
make much
difference
where I am."
his spear
and
When
like
and had
gone some
sound
a strong wind
the
and
I
all
at once
him and
said:
"Well, I
am
here.
have
am
The
him was
the
the
the west.
They
traveled
many
days, and
prairies
The
A
it
up.
Wind and
the young
227
this bull.
When
on,
all
have
fallen the
will
come.
and
it
seemed as
if
water.
At
last
Here
The Wind
young man:
all
"These are
They went
and went
in.
on,
and at
came
When
down
the Father
man and
said to him:
"My
why
I
son, I
wanted
to see you,
sticks,
and that
I
is
and why
sent
my Wind
am
you here.
Your
hungry now
three
sacks.
The
first
con-
red, blue
and yellow.
The
When you
get
228
of the seeds
him
to put
them
in the ground;
make more.
but the
first
year do not
them
it
away and
put
of
in the ground.
seed.
also a buffalo
and said
to
"When you
give
them what
is
in this robe,
and
to
tell
them
all
these
things.
Now
your people."
back.
man
They
traveled
vil-
came
to the
Pawnee
the young
and
said:
"Father, I
am
here."
But
not you."
He had
here."
Then he
am
And
At
this
They had
229
very hungry.
The
little
children
the young
man
man
go through the
camp and
lodge.
When
it
spread
buffalo
out,
and
it
of fat
to each
meat
all
piled high.
person
the robe
He
the
was
all
own
lodge.
But
the
young man
said:
Do
There
is
enough.
5'
and explained
first
to
eat
any the
year,
some
to plant,
Then he
said to
them:
"I hear that you have no buffalo.
Come
out to-mor-
row and
I will
to
go for buffalo."
The
people wondered where this could be, for they had trav-
230
man
from
When
they
band
of buf-
When
they
all
buffalo
in the
was plenty
dried meat.
Four
days after this he again sent out the boys, and they
found buffalo.
Now
meat they
the
when
spring
came
young
first
man
When
the people
at
new and
different
from anything
They
young
stalks,
tasseled out,
They
good to
eat, for
the
The
rest
all
the
231
Later, this
He
told
them that
and
offer
them
to the Father.
He
taught them
about the sacred bundles, and told them that they must
put an ear of corn on the bundles and must keep a
piece of fat in the bundles along with the corn, and
that both
of sight.
In the
fall
they
should take the ear of corn out of the bundles and rub
the piece of fat over
it.
and
it
was a help
to
them
in their living.
WAUKEWA'S EAGLE
WAUKEWA'S EAGLE
ONE
a
cliff.
day,
when
Waukewa was
at the base of
The
had
fluttered
it
down
the
cliff
and injured
itself so
severely that
it
was
he was about
its
body, for
in him,
and the
many
ing-frame.
But a
gentler impulse
came
to
him as he
fright at
his
in his quiver,
For
fully
and
softer
Then
the strug-
eyes,
and
it
suffered
Waukewa
1
to pass his
its ruffled
and
in St.
Eagle, bv James
I.
236
draggled feathers.
fend
its
threatened
yielded to the
charm
of the
Waukewa and
home
the
eagle
were
Waukewa went
slowly
He
carried
pain,
still,
never offering to
it.
at the lodge,
Waukewa
bound
it
up with
Then he made a
nest of ferns and grass inside the lodge, and laid the
bird in
eyes.
it.
The
From
girlhood she
it
had loved
pleased
in the
own
gentle spirit
waking
When Waukewa's
neck.
eagerly, stoop-
"Keep
it,
then," he said,
WAUKEWA'S EAGLE
"and nurse
it it
237
let
until
will
it is
well.
go, for
we
So
Waukewa promised
and give
when
could
was
he would carry
forth
It
it its
freedom.
Indians say, a
fully
was a month
or, as the
moon
wing had
mended and
to fly.
it
And
daily,
and fed
and the friendship between the boy and the bird grew
very strong.
But at
must be
last the
freed.
So
Waukewa
carried
it
far
away from
young braves
might see
their
it
arrows at
and there he
sky
let it go.
The young
freedom and
its
strange,
to
new power
of flight.
But
the spot,
it
day long
followed
as he hunted.
At
dusk,
But
hid.
the
and
and
sweeping
238
away.
Summer
again, with
came
flowers
fish in
Then
it
was that
all
the Intheir
and corn!
falls
and leaping
else
full
spring
air.
Nowhere
among
at the
head
was
strong,
and should a
light
it
falls.
Very early
as the sun
in the
just
was
Waukewa
WAUKEWA'S EAGLE
rapids of the Apahoqui, and floated
in
239
downward, spear
hand,
among
the salmon-riffles.
He was
fish
the only
falls.
above the
But
his
watchful eye and his strong paddle suffered the current to carry his canoe
This
the sport.
The who
riffles
were
full
silver stream.
left,
Waukewa plunged
So absorbed
and
was he that
when
more
swiftly
among
the rocks.
But suddenly he
it
wildly in
sidewise, shiv-
own
inch
by
inch,
began
shore.
the paddle parted in the boy's hands, broken just above the blade!
Waukewa gave
to the
Then he bent
the
gunwale of
and with
shattered
blade
it
current.
But
was
The
2 4o
roared tauntingly in
Then
and folded
his arms.
lofty.
He had
lived like
now he would
The black
The
away on
phantoms.
became
like
But
still
his fate as
At
last
In a few
moments
all
would be over.
But
hymn upon
his lips.
fell
Suddenly a shadow
lifted his eyes
Waukewa
with dangling
out the sun.
and a spread
Once more
boy and
and now
was the
eagle
who was
master
in his canoe,
Now
WAUKEWA'S EAGLE
ract's edge,
241
lifted his
down
very verge.
down
and downwards
The
prey.
The spray
as they
fell.
upward
But
his
He
fought
way
His
whirlpool below.
At
and exhausted.
Then
took the air under his free wings, and soared away,
till
"T7ES,
ing
sir/' said
my
down
hung there
all
my
time,
and most of
my
father's.
till
another tenant
Whew!
coarse weather."
to the door,
He went
opened
it,
upon
The
him
into the
wreckwood
fire.
firelight
examined the
relics
my
knee.
The metal
of each
of knowledge.
and dusty,
still
hung
its
248
Ter-
ram
the
motto of
the
Marines.
parchment,
began
to tighten
up the
straps
with the
But as
idle
purpose of trying
yet.
if
on
my
drum
at-
The body
of
my
I
thumb,
six
had a
series of
letters
engraved around
the trick of
it,
knew
I thought.
of
only to be
spell a certain
word,
such
wind
east
by south
that
Back
the
rings,
year 'nine
it
was;
my
me
But
Parson Ken-
249
o'
and when
his time
came,
he went to his own grave and took the word with him."
"Whose
ghosts,
Matthew?"
sir.
"You want
tell it
My
father could
He
was a young
man
in the
I be.
That's
how he came
to get
tale."
lit
He
took a chair,
The storm
and
down by
it
Lowland
Point,
and he wanted
to
see
if
stood
He
Gun-
Meadow
afterward.
time,
me
this often)
250
hand.
But he made
he got to
me
that
it
fore-
The
fence
was gone,
it
show where
stood; so that,
when
first
My
father,
was a very
religious
man; and
if
he reckoned the
in
and
night,
among
the
it
moving stones
he was certain of
and,
with the same, saw a flame shoot up out of the darkness to windward, making a sudden fierce light in
the place about.
all
'The
Second Coming
The
Second
Coming!
The
He
and over.
squalls,
he made bold
light
his
251
he saw
off
all
away
to
It
was
she,
flare.
My
father could
see the white streak and the ports of her quite plain
as she rose to
it,
little
bower anchor
fell
off,
foot
by
foot,
and drifting
Cam
at
The rocks
lie
any
rate,
my
father
he turned then
back
well
for
Coverack
though
for-
ward
'like
ball,' as
homeward
ugly work,
the stones
As you know,
'tis
way among
252
there,
my
father
was
prettily
knocked about at
seven than
first in
the dark.
But by
six o'clock,
By
the time he
man
first
cottage
same
A
my
her
man named
Ede
in
wringing wet.
" 'Save the chap!
d' 'ee
'
means by crying
'tis
"'But
a wreck.
'tis,'
I've azeed'n!'
"'Why,
so
"
father's
"And with
my
saw another
like
and
fro
in
her,
he heard a trumpet
in
little
jerks,
253
though
this
had dropped a
little.
" 'She's
When
she
first to
had washed
an hour back.
"My
a light when
there.
me
an'
my man
down
away
know.
Anyway,
her and her bottom sagged and stove, and she had just
settled
down
like a sitting
hen
to starboard; but a
man
They
to bul-
from bulwark
holdclean
passed.
The
254
golden
if
'twas
King George
they expected.
fifty times.
And
beside
would
lift
his
call;
There
hark
and
I
'ee
now
But
few are
their voices
it
weak.
wind
is,
and
reckon
numbs
when
my man
dears,
if
sent
me home
Another
the Manacles.
'tis little
man
in alive while I
was
there.
The
when
my
cast
father got
down
to the point.
Six
up
alive, or just
breathing
seaman and
troopers.
had
breath to speak;
255
ship's
name was
homeward bound
had been
John
this
Moore.
time,
The
by
slope;
but
a dozen
men
still
by
Of these three
my
to
clung an officer in
full
his
name, they
last
heard
the
after,
came
fel-
tall
trumpeter; and
you'll believe
me, the
last, to
very
blow
off
the deck
and
The
man
as well as a tough
swimmer
ers,
rose
and came
in
third.
The
folks
256
downward on
men
him
forget
if
ever heard
it
jumped down
enough
to
them up
to grass.
ribs.
had him
in bed,
"Now was
the transport
the time
nothing
father to
being
tell
left alive
upon
for
my
And when he
got
few volunlook.
They
be seen on the
sea.
One
till
or two
was
to
for calling
my
father a
liar.
'Wait
we come
Dean
Point,'
said he.
side of
Dean
mainmast
to
it
men
in red jackets
every mother's
staring;
and a
257
and, near
M.
S.
Primrose' cut
on,
on the stern-board.
From
this point
the shore
was
littered thick
the most of
them marines
and among
full
it
of papers,
by which, when
it
made out
transports for
War,
(Mein was
name) did
and club-haul
his vessel
when he
if
But
'The Primrose,
size,
sir,
was a handsome
in
vessel
for her
and newly
So the boys
way
of brass-work,
258
ship's instruments,
rels of stores
not
much
spoiled.
selves with as
for
much
home, meaning
before
the preventive
men
doings
and
came
But as
my
father
was passing
and
'I
And, running
fore,
boy that
I told
you about.
The poor
little
chap was
and
his
eyes closed:
two, and was
breathing.
So
my
that
was
of Manilla rope
here, to this
He
lost
a good deal
by
this, for
to fetch his
it,
bundle the
preventive
men had
got hold of
;
by pay-
way
that he picked
you'll allow to to give
off:
which
first
man
news
259
my
to
and
for
had
was saved
in a fever,
was raving
fright.
And
the sea-
men and
of the Despatch.
The
tall
somehow
his
in
coming ashore,
and he talked
never be a proper
man
again.
The
up
to
their
ways;
but the
trumpeter stayed on
finding he
was
fit
him down a
to
trifle
enough
man
keep him
in
"Now
fer,
the
first
William
Talli-
he called himself
you please,
in full regimentals.
There never
suit
was a
soldier so
proud of
his dress.
His own
had
shrunk a brave
not
if
life;
26o
so
my
little
in this rig-out,
down by
The morning
was a
fine
one, early in
came
stroll.
the
cracked
trumpeter,
taking
you be
"
'I
doin' here?'
was
T had
a pair o'
drumsticks.
Our
much
as a
drum tapped
"'Phut!'
ground;
'a
says
the
trumpeter,
and
spat
on
the
parcel of Marines!'
or so, but answered
it
at
to
your
speak
The Marines
body
of
men
in
the service.'
the height
die well?'
261
There was a
of the
lot of run-
first,
and some
men began
But when
and a few
fell off
the ship
to
Major
Griffiths, the
command-
Major
called out to
me
alfell
ding, he sang
it
out so cheerful.
men
and decent as
if
One
moment.
One
to
me and
the wind
what
you remember
lashed
my
it
life
it's
afterward, a
stove.
I
drum being
as
every
man was on
deck;
British
the
boys standin'
in the
In ten minutes
died,
cavalry-
262
drummer
of the
Marines.
7th Light
Dragoons
the
Queen's Own.
played
me
to
sound a
call or
two,
them
in heart;
my
own.
he's not
much
is
tall;
Own
Hussars
foot
a question
o'
way
from Sahagun
the knocks
to
at
(The reason,
sir, I
that
my
father learnt
trumpeter,
Mayorga
rear-
all
was
to sit
about in
we whipped 'em
And when
it
came
263
Half-Hundred.
three.
decent regiments,
all
Own
Hussars
is
So you played on
was
goin'
down?
Drummer
o'
John Christian,
sticks for that.'
I'll
have
to get
drum-
"Well,
sir,
it
him a
this
pair of
box-wood drum-sticks
for
the boy.
And
of one of the
tell of.
Noth-
more than
to
borrow a boat of
where the Prim-
my
still
the
for they
and making
if
his
an angel.
But
be walking together and talking; leastwise, the youngster listened while the other discoursed
campaign
tle
in Spain
and Portugal,
telling
how
each
lit-
264
eral Baird
his
own commanding
were;
and
and
so forth, as
all
"But
this
had
come
to
an end
in
the late
summer,
Plymouth
(for
;
to report
'Twas
his
own wish
all
believe
King
about him)
As
my
as a
made an arrangement
left;
him on
was up
by
and
five
all
A Monfixed
day morning
to
it
My
father
to
left
them
pig,
at breakfast together,
meat the
sort.
When
the
at table,
in his
moment.
he says to
" 'Look at
this,'
my
father,
showing him
265
picked
it
it
up
off
a starving brass-worker in
Lisbon, and
is
common
locks that
one word of
There's
the ring
make
any
six-letter
word you
please,
the lock
upon
that,
and never a
until
soul can
that
knows
the
on.
Now, Johnny,
for,
here's goin',
the parch-
ment sags
getting at
in
it;
if
he carries
it
to
Plymouth,
they'll
only condemn
I shan't
And
as for me,
the trumpet
any
and,
by your
Maybe
if
Johnny'll
I'll
come back;
maybe
not.
Maybe,
he comes,
sake's sake.
But
for
if
arate 'em;
if
And
you can
tell
'em that
drummer,
of the Marines,
Talli-
266
fer,
Own
Hussars.
Amen.'
my
forth of
was
About three
in
the afterhill;
my
father
the fishing,
was
tidied
up and the
tea ready,
and the
like a
new
pin.
From
that time
my
father, looking
and
tilling
the garden;
and
all
the
My
father
And from
first to last
neither spake a
word about
"The
rest
of the tale
please.
you'm
free to believe,
sir,
or not, as
you
It stands
upon
my
father's
267
Book upon
it
He
said,
too, that
by any other
tale.
But you
shall
judge
for yourself.
"My
sitting here,
just as
you
sir,
My
father
had put on
by the
The
the
all.
Toward
at this min-
He was
dozing then
(my
when
a knock
man
bit,
in scarlet regimentals.
a brave
and
his face
was the
color of wood-ashes;
but
it
Christian.
Only
his
shone in brass
upon
his collar.
268
he never
said:
"And
drummer Johnny
tient.
Johnny
I
boy?
The men
you march,
are paI
'Til
you come,
count;
mark
come
drumstep-
is
Corunna no
longer;'
and
word aloud,
so
C-O-R-U-N-A.
I
When
he
had
opened
in his
hand.
" 'Did
came
to
Hussar,
still
T went back
right.
with them
from Sahagun
in
to
Corunna.
They
be-
haved
" 'But I'd fain see the Marines again,' says the
drumshall
you
Matthew,' he
269
on
my
father
and
when he
turned,
let
my
father
saw
'Matthew, we
shall
want your
boat.'
"Then
my
man
in
a dream, while they two slung on, the one his drum,
and
He
and
my
for
father pushed
off.
"
'Row you
So
first
mer.
my
father
And
the Revelly.
"
pull
The music
of
it
was
They
drummer.
'Matthew,
you now
"So
to
my
and came
an easy
Cam
du.
And
was
the
drummer
it
like a rolling
off;
'they will
270
follow.
now
for
the
shore
under
Gunner's
Meadow.'
"Then
my
and ran
his
And
they stepped
and walked up
to the
meadow.
By
the
gate the
drummer
"And
while the
drum
beat,
and
my
breath, there
came up out
of the sea
a troop of
many men,
among
the graves;
and formed up
horses,
all
lean
and
There was no
my
the while,
The drummer
stood upon a
little
him the
tall
my
roll.'
father, cling-
the
drummer
the end
man
and
called,
'Troop-Sergeant-Major Thomas
271
is
it
Thomas
Irons,
how
with you?'
it
be with me?
I
When
grown,
pay.
was young,
betrayed a
girl;
and when
was
But
died as a
man
ought.
God
save the
King!'
"The trumpeter
man, 'Trooper
is it
with you?'
'How should
I stole,
be with me?
was a drunkard,
I knifed
and
and
I
in
Lugo, in a wine-shop,
man.
King!'
But
died as a
man
should.
God
save the
line;
and when
dead Marines
his
in their order.
man ended
King!'
When
well.
all
back
"
to his
is
mound, and
'It
You
we
are con-
Wait yet a
little while.'
"With
this
my
father to pick
up the
lantern,
As
my
father
272
picked
men
cheer
and
call,
all
together,
and saw
a pane.
to
it
the kitchen,
my
seemed they'd
in
and
my
and
took
locked
together
again,
choosing
While he did
he
said:
is
"
The word
left
As
you
an "n"
lock,
Bayonne.'
And
"My
father
of following,
when he
sitting
273
If
it
my
father's heart
jumped
now.
jumped quicker
But
after a bit, he
to the
man
It
asleep
in the chair,
was the
but
though the
flesh
"Well,
at first
his
sir,
my
father
was minded
it).
to
funeral, he
heard
down
this mornin'?'
is
'What
agreed
news?' says
upon.'
my
father.
'None too
soon,' says
my
father.
'Not soon
enough
swered.
parson an-
'Bayonne!' cries
my
father,
all
with a jump.
about a great
know
if
the 38th
Regiment was
my
'I
father asked.
didn't
it
son Kendall,
up
in the
campaign.
But, as
was engaged,
and
274
"Still
later,
off
of the
Angel
enough, there
among
Drummer John
man
up
to
So
my
father went
The
par-
you
tried to
"
'I
says
my
father.
" 'Then
try.'
When
the parson
came
hook and
The word
has seven
" 'Not
letters.'
if
you
spell
it
did,'
says
my
father.
spelt
it
"The parson
out B-A-Y-O-N-E.
'Whew!'
says he, for the lock had fallen open in his hand.
"He
said,
stood considering
it
'I tell
you what.
if I
I shouldn't
blab this
all
round
the parish,
was you.
You
down
truth-telling,
But
if
you
like, I'll
275
me
shall
my
father.
then,
in their place.
He
is
gone long
is
since,
And
till
the lock
broken
by
force,
nobody
HOW
JAN BREWER
WAS PI5KEY-LADEN
HOW
THE moon
ing
broad-
shouldered
man
called
home
to Constantine
Bay
to his cottage
of the
cliff.
He was
along,
went
and he sang
common
near
the bay.
of this ancient
the
common, and
as they dashed
and he sang
a
field
when he
got there he
my
Tregarthen.
Enys
179
280
self.
common and
to
start
which he did;
not find
it
he
cried.
my
my
way
to
as pitch.
dark to-night;
Head
and yet
till
I can't see
my own
gate."
little
But
en't a-going to
be done; do find
I'll
this
common
my
the
common
where a
lot of
"The
he said
never
Little
Man
in the
Lantern
is
about to-night,"
to himself, as
"But
knew he was
iMad.
2 Jack-o'-Lantern. Will-o'-the-Wisp. The Piskey Puck. Some say he walks about carrying a lantern, others, that he goes over the moors in his lantern.
281
the grass, he
saw
to his astonishment
hundreds of
Little
Men and
giggled.
Little
Women
The
Little
Men
briar berries,
and grass-green
and the
Little
Women had
little
Wee Men's
coats,
scarlet hoods.
"I believe the great big chap sees us," said one of the Little
Men, catching
"He must be
"
Piskey-eyed, and
we
did not
know
2
it."
Dinky
Women.
Tis a
pity,
same."
"That we
Men
and
Little
Women
great
in
tall fellow,
ing, giggling
and flashing up
was
Men and
Little
Women
giggling
up
1-
Waving.
2 Little.
282
break
He was
at their
it;
and when
and they
brown
mon
so
many
they
Women
let
winked up
at
hoods.
The Piskeys
down
the
for they
were Piskeys
hurried him
all
the time;
mizzy-mazey with
bath of
"sweating perspiration
mop
his face,
He was
also in a
leaking," he said
1 In Cornwall, these "little Ancient People" are called Piskeys. In England and Ireland. Pixies.
283
when he would be
free at
And
in a
minute or
all
his coat-pockets
the
Little
Men and
in
the Little
Women
in a
cliff.
He
no time
opening
it,
and
on the
TIS grandson
of another
my own
the
father's father,
and not
man
altogether.
name
of
my
grandfather that
to all
me
call
him
so
my
grandfather, and
made
I don't
mind
telling
you about
My
grandfather,
Hendry Watty,
would row out
eggy-hot that he
the
Shivering
Grounds,
all in
trammel
night,
there.
To
find
by
TregaSt.
menna and
on
An-
there one time, with six hands on board; and they say
1
288
But
my
man
in Port Loe,
So one Christ-
mas Eve by
tilled
the trammel
down
to
my
grandfather's spirits
in earnest.
up and also
to
left
Oliver's
my
grandfather
He
has told
me
for as a rule
he didn't
much
of William
John Dunn.
hands with him several times, and just as he was stepping into the boat he says, "You'll take care of
Polly while I'm away."
Mary
Mary
But
my why my
set
it
if
he was bound on
tell;
he used to
down
to fate.
my
grandfather
and he
lit
Beer-house.
289
all into
the night.
He rowed and
rowed,
all in
of the night;
a line with
"Hendry Watty!
I told
Hendry Watty!"
you
my
man
be
in
Port Loe.
But he dropped
call-
in
night?
drop
My
little
But not a
trace of bait
had he on board.
ble to bait a hook.
If
drop
or
I'll
know why"
My
again,
like
mad to
knocks
on the bottom
of the
boat, just as
The
third
2 9o
his legs.
time
his
he baited
it,
his
and flung
it
the stern-notch.
felt
it
run before he
a long pull on
sucking of a dog-fish.
pull
fist,
me
in."
in
in
hand over
and
and
came
was
still
the line
all
out of
like
and on the
left of
was a
silver ring,
in the flesh.
If this
if
and
this
was worse
for
my
grandfather
down
in the stern-sheets,
his whiskers,
come across
That was
my
all
that
my grandfather
stayed to hear.
At
jumped
291
swam
till
by the
bit of the
moon he saw
lashin's of
Rock
close ahead.
There were
deal
way
down
and
their eyes
were
like garnets
my
here
"Hendry Watty!
can't land
"Bejimbers!
my
grandfather; so
mainland.
was as much
fell
on
his face
stones,
and there
lay,
taking breath.
in his
body before he
and passed
as she
close
by
to him.
He
and
seem
my
to herself,
"The hour
man
is
come."
292
He had
dropped.
wonder over
this
when he
had
him
that Sarah
'Twas the
ball she
ball
In
less
enough
to
wood and
teened a
straw,
and struck
fire.
like
and
up
to-
It
when
the
hanging, just as
if
'twas
above; but
it
made him
to climb
stare
it,
Rowett began
up
and away up
nothing
"HENDRY WATTY!
It wasn't sea.
Sarah
calling,
send
liner
grandfather was wondering what to do, when
My
295
"Hendry Watty!
where's
the
rocket
apparatus?
my
grandfather,
to
"and do you
think,
carry
a Boxer's rocket in
my
it
trousers pocket?"
"Throw
So
my
He
didn't see
where
it
how
is,"
far
it
went.
"Right
it
says the
woman
aloft.
But what
shall us
!
do for a cra-
Hendry Watty!
to
Hendry Watty
"Ma'am
"If
I'll
you"
said
my
grandfather.
feelings of a gentleman,
off
my
po-
stocking."
So
litely;
my
way very
it
Breeches buoy.
294
"Hendry Watty!
tumbling past his ear and scattered the ashes right and
left.
"Hendry Watty!
sunk
"Hendry Watty!
limbs!"
Hendry Watty!
warm them
My
up at him.
it
"Hendry Watty!
and
it,
my
grandfather
the
was
hands on
when
woman
called
down:
it
quick!
It's
my own
leg
The
And
reckon
it's
asleep he
for
what
29$
And
as he sprang for
his boat
was
let
out
and
and
hoisted
him up
and
in
on deck, safe
and sound.
to
be outward bound
and an-
my
grandfather
first
And who
should be the
man
Dunn.
"I'm very glad to see you," says William John Dunn.
"Thank you
how's
kindly," answers
my
grandfather; "and
Mary
Polly?"
"Why,
much
look-
her under
my
eye
till
my
"But
if
you was
why
didn'
you drop
us a line?"
Now when
it
came
to talk
about "dropping a
line,'
296
my
So he struck
William John
Dunn on
the nose
And
next day,
summons
against him.
istrates:
and
my
to
you.
And
and
fined
him
five
shillings.
And
ended.
Hendry Watty's.
CHILDL ROWLAND
CHILDE ROWLAND 1
Childe Rowland and his brothers twain
Were playing at the ball, And there was their sister Burd In the midst, among them all.
Childe Rowland kicked
it
Ellen
And caught
At
last as
it
made
it flee.
aisle
To
is
gone,
still,
But long they waited, and longer And she came not back again.
They sought her east, they sought her west, They sought her up and down, And woe were the hearts of those brethren,
For she was not to be found.
Courtesy of
299
SO
if
him
"The
fair
Burd
car-
by the
church 'widershins'
is
She
it
now
in the
Dark Tower
King
of Elfland;
Christendom
to bring
possible to bring her back," said her brother, or perish in the attempt."
it is,"
do
"Possible
to the
said the
man
he
is
not
what he
is
to do." to
The
off,
eldest brother of
be put
by any
fear of danger,
to get her
him what
And
after he
had repeated
But long they waited, and longer still, With doubt and muckle pain, But woe were the hearts of his brethren, For he came not back again.
300
CHILDE ROWLAND
Then
ing,
301
and he went
Burd
But long they waited, and longer still, With muckle doubt and pain, And woe were his mother's and brother's For he came not back again.
heart,
And when
Burd
Ellen's
and went
good
at
let
him
go.
for
if
he was the
last
and dearest
lost.
of her children,
and
he was
lost, all
till
would be
But he begged,
let
and he begged,
and gave him
in vain,
at last the
good queen
him
go,
his father's
girt it
it
and as she
spell that
would give
victory.
to the
good queen,
and went
Warlock,
how man
or mother's son
may
rescue
Burd
"Well,
my
may
302
are to do.
And
Burd
off
the thing to do
after
father's
And what
you've not to do
bite
no
bit,
thirsty
way.
still
And
he went
further along,
These he knew by
King
of Elfland's
Dark Tower
is?"
"I cannot
little
tell
on a
and
come
to the cow-herd,
he,
maybe, can
thee."
Rowland went on
CHILDE ROWLAND
the
303
same question.
little
"I can't
tell
on a
further,
and thou
wilt
come
to the hen-wife,
and she
is
sure to know."
And he went on
little
further,
he came to an old
if
woman
"Go on
to a
in a
gray cloak,
she
knew where
the
Dark Tower
further,"
hill,
King
of Elfland was.
"till
little
you come
round green
to the
go round
it
time say:
"'Open, door!
open,
in,'
door!
And
let
me come
will open,
And
when he
in vain,
and
off
went the
Then he went
round green
hill
on,
till
he came to the
And
let
me come
in."
304
And
and
in,
left in
It
of twilight or
gloaming.
came
There were
But though
always
till
it
air
it
is
in Elfland.
So he went through
passage
at last
which stood
them, there he
glorious sight.
it
large
and
to
be as long, and
roof
hill itself.
The
was sup-
ported by fine
pillars, so large
and
They were
all
and
silver,
composed of what
Why,
of
manner
of precious stones.
And
of the arches
had
for
and
all
rubies,
and
pearls,
stones.
And
just
these arches
met
in the
and
CHILDE ROWLAND
there,
305
hung by a gold
chain, an
And
in the
middle of
this
was a
big,
huge carbuncle,
this
was
what gave
seemed as
light
if
by
its
was shining on
it.
The
and
silk
hall
was furnished
end of
it
in
at one
was a
And when
she saw
"God
What have ye
"Hear ye
this,
here to do?
my
youngest brother,
Why
didn't ye bide at
home?
Then they
sat
down
together,
him how
306
dead.
And
and
talked a
longer Childe
Rowland began
hungry from
Ellen
Burd
food,
some
at Childe
Rowland
spell,
sadly,
and
and could
to his lips,
when he looked
had come
all
at his sister
that way.
"Not a sup
Burd Ellen
is
nor a
set free."
Just at that
the noise of
some one
fo,
fum,
blood of a Christian man,
I smell the
Be he
I'll
my
brand,
And
CHILDE ROWLAND
good brand that never yet did
they fought, and they fought,
the
fail.
307
fought, and
They
till
King
of Elfland
down on
to his knees,
and caused
him
said
to yield
and beg
for mercy.
Childe Rowland;
"release
my
life,
sister
from thy
us
all
spells
free,
and
raise
my
brothers to
and
let
go
and thou
and
shalt be spared."
rising
filled
Elfin King,
up he went
from which
he took a phial
this
With
and
finger-tips of the
into
life,
but had
now
The
Elfin
King then
some
words
they
to
Burd
all
Dark Tower,
good queen
their
again.
To go from
left
to
right,
instead of
folding
the
Sun's
left.
TAM
O'
5HANTLR
TAM
market-day
O'
SHANTER
in the
town of Ayr
in Scotland.
all
into
town from
the coun-
farm produce,
to take
home.
of
Amongst
Tarn
o'
these farmers
of person, but, I
am
drunkard.
Now
fear
making
it
Tarn
to
do wrong than
that
this
if
him more
kindly.
However
may
day
his
had escaped
mounted
fast as
off as
he
they went
telling
late at night.
3H
312
At
time came to go
the rain
loud.
It
torrents
was a
blinding
flashes
of
lightning;
but
Tarn
was well
mounted on
his
lest
him unawares.
At
last
Alloway.
this old
church had
it
been
roofless,
still
it
was
and
bell.
As Tarn was
hillside
above him,
and behold!
it
was
all
Now
leycorn,
fearless
by
TAM
saw the weirdest
sight
O'
SHANTER
313
in
mad
the bagpipes,
was an awful
sight;
in,
amazed
and
furious.
One
handsome
girl
that
Tarn had known called Nannie; Tarn sat as one bewitched watching her as she danced, and at last losing
his wits altogether, called out:
Sark!"
and
in
an instant
all
was dark!
Maggie round, when him
like
He had
all
swarm
As a crowd
runs,
when
the
many an
Hurry, Meg!
Do
thy utmost!
Win
them!
the key-
toss
your
tail at
But be-
fore
good
Meg
3H
rest,
she had no
to toss.
For Nannie
with fury.
But she
little
mettle.
With one
left
behind her
own gray
tail!
it
and
left
TAM
''Of
O'
SHANTER 1
is
brownys and of
bogilis full
this buke."
Gawin
Douglas.
When chapman
And
billies
While we
sit
We
The
stiles,
That
Where
sits
to
keep
it
warm.
Shanter,
o'
As he
frae
canter,
(Auld Ayr,
wham
ne'er a
town surpasses,
lasses.)
O Tarn
As
blethering, blustering,
drunken blellum;
315
316
That
November
till
October,
sober;
Thou
had
siller;
on Sunday,
Thou drank
till
Monday.
late or soon,
in Doon,;
By
it
gars
me
greet,
To
think
how mony
counsels sweet,
How mony
But
The husband
to our tale:
Ae market
night,
right;
finely,
And
Tarn
him
fou' for
weeks thegither!
TAM
The
O'
SHANTER
better
317
And ay
was growing
rair
and
rustle
made
to see a
man
sae happy,
the nappy!
amang
As bees
flee
hame
way
wi' pleasure:
may be
the
blest,
You
Or
bloom
is
shed;
like the
snow
white
falls in
the river,
for ever;
A moment
Or
That
flit
then melts
ere
their place;
Or
form
And
As
sic
was abroad
in.
318
The
on the
blast;
That
night, a child
might understand,
his hand.
The
De'il
had business on
his
Weel mounted on
Where
ghaists
cry.
By
this
Whare
And
And
Where drunken
and by the
cairn,
And
TAM
Before him
O'
SHANTER
319
Doon pours
When, glimmering
Kirk-Alloway seem'd
And
Inspiring, bold
John Barleycorn!
What
make
evil;
us scorn!
The swats
sae ream'd in
Tammie's noodle,
by
hand admonish'd,
light;
sight
in a
dance;
Nae
cotillion brent
jigs,
new
frae France,
But hornpipes,
Put
life
strathspeys,
in their heels:
and
reels,
and mettle
winnock-bunker
in the east,
There
shape
o'
beast;
320
To
his charge;
He
Till roof
and
curious,
fast
and furious:
they
set,
swat and
And
And
in her sark!
fu' brawlie,
walie,
That night
(Lang
after kenn'd
to
on Carrick shore;
dead she shot,
a bonnie boat,
And
perish'd
mony
Paisley harn,
That, while a
lassie,
was her
best,
TAM
Ah!
little
O'
SHANTER
wee Nannie,
a'
321
her riches),
Wad
But here
my muse
her wing
maun
cour;
To
sing
how Nannie
and
flang,
Strang),
Satan glowr'd,
and
And
Tarn
hotch'd and blew wi' might and main: ae caper, syne anither,
'Til first
tint his
reason
a' thegither,
And
And And
an instant
all
was dark:
rallied,
scarcely
had he Maggie
When
angry gyke,
When
As open
When "Catch
322
Ah, Tarn!
Ah, Tarn!
thou'll get
thy
fairin'!
Kate soon
will
be a woefu' woman!
Now
And win
of the brig;
tail
may
toss,
But
make,
The
tail
For Nannie,
And
But
flew at
little
Tammie
Ae
But
tail:
The
by
the rump,
And
a well-known fact that witches, or any evil spirits, have to follow a poor wight any further than the middle of the next running stream. It may be proper likewise to mention to the benighted traveler, that when he falls in with bogles, whatever danger there may be in his going forward, there is much more hazard in turning back.
1 It is
no power
TAM
Now, wha
Ilk
O'
SHANTER
323
man and
Whene'er
to drink
you are
in
inclin'd,
Or cutty-sarks run
Think! ye
your mind,
may buy
o'
Remember Tarn
Shanter's mare.
Robert Burns.
THE BOGGART
THE BOGGART
INhonest
gart
of trouble,
an old farm-house
in
had taken up
He
day
Sometimes
bread
their porringers
invisible
hand;
Boggart never
closet,
hole.
Into
this,
one
was thrown out again, and struck the boy on the head.
Of course
1
it
this,
and
it
soon beTales.
From
Fairy-Gold,
book
of
old
English
Fairy
328
came
let
him have
it all
This
up.
"Heigh, Johnny,
my
lad,
so,
I'm forced
to
it;
for that
we can
It
it
t'poor bairns,
my
ye
He
we're
scarce
ye see!"
"if I'd
known thou
would
flit
have
stirred
a peg!"
And
by the Boggart
in a
new
one.
THE END