Category: North America

November 23, 2017

THE ORIGIN OF THE ROBIN (The Indian Fairy Book, 1869) BY CORNELIUS MATHEWS

An old man had an only son, named Iadilla, who had come to that age which is thought to be most proper to make the long and final fast which is to secure through...

November 21, 2017

THE TOAD-WOMAN (The Indian Fairy Book, 1869) BY CORNELIUS MATHEWS

Great good luck once happened to a young woman who was living all alone in the woods with nobody near her but her little dog; for, to her surprise, she found fresh meat every...

November 19, 2017

GRAY EAGLE AND HIS FIVE BROTHERS (The Indian Fairy Book, 1869) BY CORNELIUS MATHEWS

There were six falcons living in a nest, five of whom were still too young to fly, when it so happened that both the parent birds were shot in one day. The young brood...

November 10, 2017

THE CLERGYMAN (REYNARD THE FOX, 1920) by JOHN MASEFIELD

A pommle cob came trotting up, Round-bellied like a drinking-cup, Bearing on back a pommle man Round-bellied like a drinking-can. The clergyman from Condicote. His face was scarlet from his trot, His white hair...

November 8, 2017

THE PLOUGHMAN (REYNARD THE FOX, 1920) by JOHN MASEFIELD

At twenty past, old Baldock strode His ploughman’s straddle down the road. An old man with a gaunt, burnt face; His eyes rapt back on some far place, Like some starved, half-mad saint in...

November 5, 2017

THE MEET (REYNARD THE FOX, 1920) by JOHN MASEFIELD

The meet was at “The Cock and PyeBy Charles and Martha Enderby,” The grey, three-hundred-year-old inn Long since the haunt of BenjaminThe highwayman, who rode the bay. The tavern fronts the coaching way, The...