. Dream days . LONDON JOHN LANE THE BODLEY HEAD LTD THE NEW YORK PUBIJC LIPHARY . TIONS. First Published December, iSgg, 1904, igo8, igii, {M. Parrish) igo2, igog, igio, igij, igiy, igig, {L. Lenski) ig22. Printed in Great Britain atThe Mayflotier Press, Plymouth. William Brenrlon & Son, Ltd. CONTENTS PAGE The Twenty-first of October i Dies Ir^ 19 MuTABiLE Semper 37 The Magic Ring 57 Its Walls were as of Jasper . . .78 A Saga of the Seas 99 The Reluctant Dragon 122 A Departure 172 COLOURED ILLUSTRATIONS And the people are hayniakitjg ther^, and
. Dream days . LONDON JOHN LANE THE BODLEY HEAD LTD THE NEW YORK PUBIJC LIPHARY . TIONS. First Published December, iSgg, 1904, igo8, igii, {M. Parrish) igo2, igog, igio, igij, igiy, igig, {L. Lenski) ig22. Printed in Great Britain atThe Mayflotier Press, Plymouth. William Brenrlon & Son, Ltd. CONTENTS PAGE The Twenty-first of October i Dies Ir^ 19 MuTABiLE Semper 37 The Magic Ring 57 Its Walls were as of Jasper . . .78 A Saga of the Seas 99 The Reluctant Dragon 122 A Departure 172 COLOURED ILLUSTRATIONS And the people are hayniakitjg ther^, and playing games, and walking about .... Frontispiece To face page Coralie was in the midst of us, whining/past tvixt earth and sky . .72 The characters had a stupid way of not doing anything and apparently not wanting to do anything .... 80 A lightning movement of the Saints arm, and then a whirland confusion of spines, claws, tail, and flying bits ofturf 164. DREAM DAYS DREAM DAYS THE TWENTY-FIRST OF OCTOBER IN the matter of general culture and attain-ments, we youngsters stood on pretty levelground. True, it was always happening thatone of us would be singled out at any moment,freakishly, and without regard to his own pre-ferences, to wrestle with the inflections of someidiotic language long rightly dead ; while another,from some fancied artistic tendency which alwaysfailed to justify itself, might be told off withoutwarning to hammer out scales and exercises, andto bedew the senseless keys with tears of wearinessor of revolt. But in subjects common to eithersex, and held to be necessary even for him whoseambition soared no higher than to crack a whip ina circus-ring—in geography, for instance, arith-metic, or the weary doings of kings and queens— 2 DREAM DAYS each would have scorned to exceL And, indeed,whatever our individual gifts, a general doggeddetermination to shirk and to evade kept us all atmuch the same dead level,—a level
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