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Legends That Every Child Should Know
Hamilton Wright Mabie
 
Table of Contents
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Hamilton Wright Mabie...........................................................................................................................1INTRODUCTION...................................................................................................................................1CHAPTER I. WIGWAM LEGEND OF HIAWATHA...........................................................................3CHAPTER II. BEOWULF......................................................................................................................5CHAPTER III.CHILDE HORN...........................................................................................................11CHAPTER IV.SIR GALAHAD...........................................................................................................19CHAPTER V. RUSTEM AND SOHRAB............................................................................................21CHAPTER VI.THE SEVEN SLEEPERS OF EPHESUS...................................................................36CHAPTER VII.GUY OF WARWICK.................................................................................................38CHAPTER VIII. CHEVY CHASE........................................................................................................47CHAPTER IX.THE FATE OF THE CHILDREN OF LIR.................................................................54CHAPTER X. THE BELEAGUERED CITY.......................................................................................63CHAPTER XI.PRESTER JOHN..........................................................................................................64CHAPTER XII.THE WANDERING JEW...........................................................................................68CHAPTER XIII. KING ROBERT OF SICILY.....................................................................................73CHAPTER XIV. THE BEATO TORELLO DA POPPI......................................................................78CHAPTER XV.THE LORELEI...........................................................................................................80CHAPTER XVI. THE PASSING OF ARTHUR..................................................................................81CHAPTER XVII. RIP VAN WINKLE.................................................................................................87CHAPTER XVIII. THE GRAY CHAMPION......................................................................................95CHAPTER XIX. THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW.................................................................99
Legends That Every Child Should Knowi
 
Legends That Every Child Should Know
Hamilton Wright Mabie
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INTRODUCTION
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CHAPTER I. WIGWAM LEGEND OF HIAWATHA
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CHAPTER II. BEOWULF
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CHAPTER III.CHILDE HORN
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CHAPTER IV.SIR GALAHAD
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CHAPTER V. RUSTEM AND SOHRAB
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CHAPTER VI.THE SEVEN SLEEPERS OF EPHESUS
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CHAPTER VII.GUY OF WARWICK
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CHAPTER VIII. CHEVY CHASE
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CHAPTER IX.THE FATE OF THE CHILDREN OF LIR
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CHAPTER X. THE BELEAGUERED CITY
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CHAPTER XI.PRESTER JOHN
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CHAPTER XII.THE WANDERING JEW
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CHAPTER XIII. KING ROBERT OF SICILY
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CHAPTER XIV. THE BEATO TORELLO DA POPPI
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CHAPTER XV.THE LORELEI
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CHAPTER XVI. THE PASSING OF ARTHUR
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CHAPTER XVII. RIP VAN WINKLE
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CHAPTER XVIII. THE GRAY CHAMPION
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CHAPTER XIX. THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW
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[Illustration: GUY EARL OF WARWICK]LEGENDS THAT EVERY CHILD SHOULD KNOWA SELECTION OF THE GREAT LEGENDS OF ALL TIMES FOR YOUNG PEOPLEEDITED BY HAMILTON WRIGHT MABIEILLUSTRATED AND DECORATED BY BLANCHE OSTERTAG
INTRODUCTION
If we knew how the words in our language were made and what they have meant to successive generations of the men and women who have used them, we should have a new and very interesting kind of history to read.For words, like all other creations of man, were not deliberately manufactured to meet a need, as are thevarious parts of a bicycle or of an automobile; but grew gradually and slowly out of experiences whichcompelled their production. For it is one of the evidences of the brotherhood of men that, either by the
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