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Title: Wood Magic
A Fable

Author: Richard Jefferies

Release Date: May 2, 2008 [eBook #25299]

Language: English

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WOOD MAGIC

A Fable

by

RICHARD JEFFERIES

Author of "The Gamekeeper at Home," "Field and Hedgerow," "The Toilers
of the Field," Etc.

[Illustration]

[Illustration]

New Impression

Longmans, Green, and Co.
39 Paternoster Row, London
New York, Bombay, and Calcutta
1907

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_BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE._

_First published, 2 vols., post 8vo, by Cassell & Co., in 1881; Reissued
by them in one volume in 1882._

_'Silver Library' Edition, June, 1883. Reprinted September, 1894;
January, 1899; February, 1903; April, 1907._

_Inscribed to Harold._

CONTENTS.

I. Sir Bevis
II. At Home
III. Adventures of the Weasel
IV. Brook-Folk
V. Kapchack
VI. The Squirrel
VII. The Courtiers
VIII. The Emperor Choo Hoo
IX. The Council
X. Traitors
XI. The Storm in the Night
XII. The Old Oak.--The King's Despair
XIII. The Courtship in the Orchard
XIV. The Great Battle
XV. Palace Secrets
XVI. The New King
XVII. Sir Bevis and the Wind