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The Book of Saints and Friendly Beasts

The Book of Saints and Friendly Beasts

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THE BOOK OF SAINTS AND
FRIENDLY BEASTS


ST. BRIDGET & THE KING'S WOLFST. BRIDGET & THE KING'S WOLF

One flower THE BOOK OF SAINTS
AND FRIENDLY BEASTS
BY ABBIE FARWELL
BROWN. ILLUSTRATED
BY FANNY Y. CORYTwo flowers

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HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND CO.
BOSTON AND NEW YORK


IN LOVING MEMORY OF A
FRIENDLY BEAST

BROTHER, HAST THOU NEVER LEARNED IN HOLY WRIT, THAT WITH HIM WHO HAS LED HIS LIFE AFTER GOD'S WILL THE WILD BEASTS AND WILD BIRDS ARE TAME?
SAINT GUTHLAC OF CROWLAND

IN the old legends there may be things which some folk nowadays find it hard to believe. But surely the theme of each is true. It is not hard to see how gentle bodies who had no other friends should make comrades of the little folk in fur and fins and feathers. For, as St. Francis knew so well, all the creatures are our little brothers, ready to meet halfway those who will but try to understand. And this is a truth which every one to-day, even tho' he be no Saint, is waking up to learn. The happenings are set down quite as they read in the old books. Veritable histories, like those of St. Francis and St. Cuthbert, ask no addition of color to make them real. But sometimes, when a mere line of legend remained to hint of some dear Saint's relation with his friendly Beast, the story has been filled out in the way that seemed most likely to be true. For so alone could the old tale be made alive again. So all one's best is dressing old words new.

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Saint Bridget and the King's Wolf 1
Saint Gerasimus and the Lion 11
Saint Keneth of the Gulls 30
Saint Launomar's Cow 42
Saint Werburgh and her Goose 53
The Ballad of Saint Athracta's Stags 69
Saint Kentigern and the Robin 77
Saint Blaise and his Beasts 88
Saint Cuthbert's Peace 95
The Ballad of Saint Felix 108
Saint Fronto's Camels 114
The Blind Singer, Saint Hervé 126
Saint Comgall and the Mice 148
The Wonders of Saint Berach 156
Saint Prisca, the Child Martyr 166
The Fish who helped Saint Gudwall 176
The Ballad of Saint Giles and the Deer 183
The Wolf-Mother of Saint Ailbe 190
Saint Rigobert's Dinner 199
Saint Francis of Assisi 211
A Calendar of Saints' Days 226

The legend of Saint Fronto's Camels originally appeared in The Churchman.


THE BOOK OF SAINTS AND
FRIENDLY BEASTS


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