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...Excerpt: Phase the First; The Maiden -- I -- On an evening in the latter part of May a middle-aged man was walking homeward from Shaston to the village of Marlott, in the adjoining Vale of Blakemore or Blackmoor. The pair of legs that carried him were rickety, and there was a bias in his gait which inc...

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..................8 THE BOY HUNTING LOCUSTS ..................................8 THE COCK AND THE JEWEL ....................................8 THE KINGDOM OF THE LION ...................................9 THE WOLF AND THE CRANE ...................................9 THE FISHERMAN PIPING .......................................10 HERCULES AND THE WAGONER ...............................

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