The Dancing Druids

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‘And he ordered the stone figure to be taken up, and placed in his room near to his bed; and as often as he looked at it he wept and said, “O that I could bring thee back to life again… !” ’

The Brothers Grimm—Faithful John

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and to MY DEAR ELIZABETH STAMP

for whom it was written

‘I ain would I, Chloris, ere I die,

Bequeath you such a legacy,

As you might say, when I am gone,

“None has the like !” My heart alone

Were the best gift I could bestow;

But that’s already yours, you know.’

Anonymous—17th century

Chapter One

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‘The young man set out with this letter, but missed his way, and came in the evening to a dark wood.’

The Brothers Grimm (The Giant with the Three Golden Hairs)

A handsome young man in dirty white running-vest and shorts paused for a moment at the crossroads of a little market town in the south-west of England and then trotted on past the obelisk which commemorated the end of the Boer War. He turned down a narrow street and encountered a child of eight or nine years of age.

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