Wood Magic: A FableCassell, Petter, Galpin, 1882 - 263 pages |
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... KING'S DESPAIR 325 XIII . THE COURTSHIP IN THE ORCHARD 347 XIV . THE GREAT BATTLE XV . PALACE SECRETS XVI . THE NEW KING 380 407 442 XVII . SIR BEVIS AND THE WIND • 474 WOOD MAGIC . CHAPTER I. SIR BEVIS . ONE morning.
... KING'S DESPAIR 325 XIII . THE COURTSHIP IN THE ORCHARD 347 XIV . THE GREAT BATTLE XV . PALACE SECRETS XVI . THE NEW KING 380 407 442 XVII . SIR BEVIS AND THE WIND • 474 WOOD MAGIC . CHAPTER I. SIR BEVIS . ONE morning.
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... King Pippins , the Creepers and the Grindstone Pippins ( which grew nowhere else ) , divided from the next sort by a little fence of hay . The most of them were gone now , only a few of the keeping apples remained , and from these Bevis ...
... King Pippins , the Creepers and the Grindstone Pippins ( which grew nowhere else ) , divided from the next sort by a little fence of hay . The most of them were gone now , only a few of the keeping apples remained , and from these Bevis ...
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... king over everything and everybody - over the fly and the wasp , and the finches , and the heron , and the horse , and the rabbit , and the flowers , and the trees . Kapchack , the great and mighty Magpie , is the king , " and the Toad ...
... king over everything and everybody - over the fly and the wasp , and the finches , and the heron , and the horse , and the rabbit , and the flowers , and the trees . Kapchack , the great and mighty Magpie , is the king , " and the Toad ...
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... king ? " said Bevis . " Because he is , " said the Toad ; " and as he is king , nobody else can be . It is true be is very wise at least everybody says so - wiser than the crow or the rook , or the Weasel ( though the Weasel is so ...
... king ? " said Bevis . " Because he is , " said the Toad ; " and as he is king , nobody else can be . It is true be is very wise at least everybody says so - wiser than the crow or the rook , or the Weasel ( though the Weasel is so ...
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... king was not so beau- tiful as her husband . Next he pecked a thrush to death , because the thrush dared to come into his orchard without special permission . " But it is no use my trying to tell you all the shameful things he has done ...
... king was not so beau- tiful as her husband . Next he pecked a thrush to death , because the thrush dared to come into his orchard without special permission . " But it is no use my trying to tell you all the shameful things he has done ...
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