Transcriber’s Note:
The cover image was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain.
A Dreamer’s Tales
WE WOULD GALLOP THROUGH AFRICA
A Dreamer’s Tales
BY
Lord Dunsany
With Illustrations by
S. H. SIME
BOSTON
JOHN W. LUCE & COMPANY
Preface
I hope for this book that it may come intothe hands of those that were kind to myothers and that it may not disappoint them.
To the Editor of the Saturday Review mythanks are due for permission to republishhere those of the following tales whichhave appeared in his columns, and, morethan that, for the opportunity afforded meby his review of reaching a wider publicthan my books have attained to yet.
Contents
| PAGE | |
|---|---|
| Poltarnees, Beholder of Ocean | 1 |
| Blagdaross | 23 |
| The Madness of Andelsprutz | 32 |
| Where the Tides Ebb and Flow | 40 |
| Bethmoora | 50 |
| Idle Days on the Yann | 59 |
| The Sword and the Idol | 93 |
| The Idle City | 105 |
| The Hashish Man | 116 |
| Poor Old Bill | 127 |
| The Beggars | 138 |
| Carcassonne | 144 |
| In Zaccarath | 168 |