. Story-telling ballads, selected and arranged for story-telling and reading aloud and for the boys' and girls' own reading. impyi! nt^. BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY 1920 69024 COPYRIGHT, 1920, BY FRANCES JENKINS OLCOTTALL RIGHTS RESERVED •: ••• • • «• • ? <•• ,»• ••!• • • -••• *. CAMBRIOGB . MASSACHUSETTSU . S . A i* ^i _) TO MY SISTER VIRGINIA OLCOTT J THE FOREWORD Here are 77 story-telling ballads and narrativepoems, that will make the heart beat faster andthe pulse bound, of any boy or girl from twelve tofifteen years of age. They offer a feast of good things — romances,
. Story-telling ballads, selected and arranged for story-telling and reading aloud and for the boys' and girls' own reading. impyi! nt^. BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY 1920 69024 COPYRIGHT, 1920, BY FRANCES JENKINS OLCOTTALL RIGHTS RESERVED •: ••• • • «• • ? <•• ,»• ••!• • • -••• *. CAMBRIOGB . MASSACHUSETTSU . S . A i* ^i _) TO MY SISTER VIRGINIA OLCOTT J THE FOREWORD Here are 77 story-telling ballads and narrativepoems, that will make the heart beat faster andthe pulse bound, of any boy or girl from twelve tofifteen years of age. They offer a feast of good things — romances,hero-tales, Faerie legends, and adventures ofKnights and lovely Damsels. They sing of proudand wicked folk, of gentle and loyal ones, ofLaidley Worms, Witches, Mermaids with goldencombs, sad maidens, glad ones and fearless lovers,moss-troopers, border-rievers, and Kings in dis-guise. All their doings are related in the stirring,leaping, joyous — or at times martial and mourn-ful-ballad measure. The ancient ballads are here presented exactlyas when in days of old they were sung by min-s
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