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Title: The Field of Clover

Author: Laurence Housman

Illustrator: Clemence Housman

Release Date: July 19, 2006 [EBook #18872]

Language: English

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[Illustration: MERCURY GOD OF MERCHANDISE LOOK ON WITH FAVOURABLE
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[Illustration:

THE FIELD OF CLOVER

By Laurence Housman

DOVER PUBLICATIONS, INC., NEW YORK

ENGRAVED BY CLEMENCE HOUSMAN

BE KINDLY TO THE WEARY DROVER & PIPE THE SHEEP INTO THE CLOVER]

This Dover edition, first published in 1968, is an unabridged and
unaltered republication of the work originally published by Kegan
Paul, Trench, Truebner & Co. in 1898.

_Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 68-30802_

Manufactured in the United States of America
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Contents

THE BOUND PRINCESS (_in six parts_) PAGE
I THE FIRE-EATERS 3
II THE GALLOPING PLOUGH 13
III THE THIRSTY WELL 23
IV THE PRINCESS MELILOT 33
V THE BURNING ROSE 45
VI THE CAMPHOR WORM 57
THE CROWN'S WARRANTY 69
THE WISHING-POT 81
THE FEEDING OF THE EMIGRANTS 111
THE PASSIONATE PUPPETS 119

TO MY DEAR WOOD-ENGRAVER

THE BOUND PRINCESS

[Illustration]

THE BOUND PRINCESS

I

THE FIRE-EATERS

A long time ago there lived a man who had the biggest head in the
world. Into it he had crammed all the knowledge that might be gathered
from the four corners of the earth. Every one said he was the wisest
man living. "If I could only find a wife," said the sage, "as wise for
a woman as I am for a man, what a race of head-pieces we could bring
into the world!"

He waited many years before any such mate could be found for him:
yet, at last, found she was--one into whose head was bestowed all the
wisdom th