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Moonshine & Clover

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Housman Laurence

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MOONSHINE & CLOVER

This selection of fairy-tales is reprinted from the following original editions, now out of print:

A Farm in Fairyland	(1894)
The House of Joy	(1895)
The Field of Clover	(1898)
The Blue Moon	(1904)

MOONSHINE & CLOVER

BY LAURENCE HOUSMAN

ENGRAVED BY
CLEMENCE HOUSMAN

NEW YORK
HARCOURT, BRACE & COMPANY

Made and
Printed in Great Britain by Hazell, Watson & Viney, Ld.,
London and Aylesbury.

	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

"Eight white peahens went down to the gate:
'Wait!' they said, 'little sister, wait!'
They covered her up with feathers so fine;
And none went out, when there went back nine."

A LONG time ago there lived a King and a Queen, who had an only son. As soon as he was born his mother gave him to the forester's wife to be nursed; for she herself had to wear her crown all day and had no time for nursing. The forester's wife had just given birth to a little daughter of her own; but she loved both children equally and nursed them together like twins.

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

قراءة كتاب Moonshine & Clover