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قراءة كتاب Moonshine & Clover
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MOONSHINE & CLOVER
| A Farm in Fairyland | (1894) |
| The House of Joy | (1895) |
| The Field of Clover | (1898) |
| The Blue Moon | (1904) |
MOONSHINE & CLOVER
ENGRAVED BY
CLEMENCE HOUSMAN
NEW YORK
HARCOURT, BRACE & COMPANY
Printed in Great Britain by Hazell, Watson & Viney, Ld.,
London and Aylesbury.
CONTENTS
| PAGE | |
| The Prince with the Nine Sorrows | 13 |
| How Little Duke Jarl Saved the Castle | 27 |
| A Capful of Moonshine | 37 |
| The Story of the Herons | 47 |
| The Crown's Warranty | 70 |
| Rocking-Horse Land | 83 |
| Japonel | 95 |
| Gammelyn, the Dressmaker | 103 |
| The Feeding of the Emigrants | 113 |
| White Birch | 119 |
| The Luck of the Roses | 129 |
| The White Doe | 138 |
| The Moon-Stroke | 153 |
| The Gentle Cockatrice | 164 |
| The Green Bird | 177 |
| The Man who Killed the Cuckoo | 187 |
| A Chinese Fairy-Tale | 198 |
| Happy Returns | 211 |
THE PRINCE WITH THE NINE SORROWS
'Wait!' they said, 'little sister, wait!'
They covered her up with feathers so fine;
And none went out, when there went back nine."
One night the Queen had a dream that made the half of her hair turn grey. She dreamed that she saw the Prince her son at the age of twenty lying dead with a wound over the place of his heart; and near him his foster-sister was standing, with a royal crown on her head, and his heart bleeding between her hands.
The next morning the Queen sent in great haste for the family Fairy, and told her of the dream. The Fairy said, "This can have but one meaning, and it is an evil one. There is some danger that threatens your son's life in his twentieth year, and his foster-sister is to be the cause of it; also, it seems she is to make herself Queen. But leave her to me, and I will avert the evil chance; for the dream coming beforehand shows that the Fates mean that he should be