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قراءة كتاب The Boy Who Knew What The Birds Said
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The Boy Who Knew
What The Birds Said
By Padraic Colum
Illustrated by
Dugald Stewart Walker
The Macmillan Company, Publishers
New York Mcmxx
Copyright, 1918
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
Set up and electrotyped. Published October, 1918.
For The Boy In The Brocken
Contents
| PAGE | |
| How he came to know what the birds said | 13 |
| The Stone of Victory. | |
| And how Feet-in-the-Ashes, the Swineherd's Son, came to find it | 21 |
| The King of the Birds | 51 |
| Bloom-of-Youth and the Witch of the Elders | 67 |
| The Hen-wife's Son and the Princess Bright Brow | 85 |
| The Giant and the Birds | 113 |
| The Sea-Maiden who became a Sea-Swan | 133 |
| What the Peacock and the Crow Told Each Other | 149 |
| The Treasure of King Labraid Lorc | 163 |
List of Full Page Illustrations
| Frontispiece | |
| Round and Round the Castle they went, and the Giant with his strength was wearing out Feet-in-the-Ashes | |
| PAGE | |
| "No bird will ever out-soar this flight of mine," said the Eagle | 61 |
| But just as the Witch was dragging her to the stone a robin began to sing | 79 |
| The Red Champion said, "Good is the Champion that the King of this Land has sent against me." | 97 |
| All flew from the mountain except one bird and he was the greatest amongst them all | 117 |
| I put it to my lips, I drank it when he took a step towards me | 141 |
| O most beauteous of all the birds, do you know of any arms by which a hero can slay a dragon? | 155 |
| "Ernan is Lord, is Lord of the Fair Islands" | 173 |
The Boy Who Knew
What The Birds Said
How He Came to Know
What the Birds Said
There is one thing that all the Birds are afraid of, and that is the thing that will happen when the Bird That Follows the Cuckoo flies into the Cuckoo's