by burnstyle | Dec 24, 2018 | American Version
THE SECRETPage 16 Tuscan wine, lay the Tyrrhenian, inmost sea of the Middle Kingdom. Upon its sleeping surface bobbed a motley flotilla of Folletti; aboard were the Mona- ciello, those rotund and randy Monks of Naples; the Linchetti, horse-teasing sprites from Lucca;...
by burnstyle | Dec 24, 2018 | American Version
THE SECRETPage 15 Silkies and Ke/pies, over the sea, beyond Skye, to a Nova Scotia …. Down ice green fjords of Scandinavia, and away to the Land of the Eagle, then sailed the Ellefolk, in their terrible-prowed lqngships: the Nissen and the Tom- tra, those hairy...
by burnstyle | Dec 24, 2018 | American Version
THE SECRETPage 14 servants, the Klabautermannikins, made ready theirbroad-bottomed boats, and away they sailed, tosettle peaceably, at length, among rolling hills by awide river richly lined with cliffs and trees.Clear, running creeks they found there, and wildcats...
by burnstyle | Dec 24, 2018 | American Version
THE SECRETPage 13 The French were the first to follow. (The tall,proud Hadas of Spain had already departed-however reluctantly-with their diminutive domes-tic relatives, the Duendes.) From France came thesturdy seafaring Korreds of Brittany; the...
by burnstyle | Dec 24, 2018 | American Version
THE SECRETPage 12 of the Iberian Hadas (that is, the Spanish Fays) toseek the fabulous Spice Islands. Once found, shehoped that they would become a foster homelandfor her subjects, and indeed, for all the Fair Peopleof the Middle Kingdom whose Era, she feared,...
by burnstyle | Dec 24, 2018 | American Version
THE SECRETPage 11 Not so awfully long ago, as the stars, who createdtime, tell it, the Fair People withdrew from the OldWorld (which they called the Middle Kingdom),migrating across the Ocean Sea to dwell in the hillsand forests of the New Found Land.The first to set...
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