The Field of Clover
By Laurence Housman.
ENGRAVED BY
CLEMENCE HOUSMAN
This Dover edition, first published in 1968, is an unabridgedand unaltered republication of the work originally published byKegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co. in 1898.
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 68-30802
Manufactured in the United States of America DoverPublications, Inc. 180 Varick Street New York, N. Y. 10014
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
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THE BOUND PRINCESS
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THE BOUND PRINCESS
I
THE FIRE-EATERS
long time ago there lived a man who had thebiggest head in the world. Into it he had crammed all theknowledge that might be gathered from the four corners of theearth. Every one said he was the wisest man living. "If I couldonly find a wife," said the sage, "as wise for a woman as I amfor a man, what a race of head-pieces we could bring into theworld!"
He waited many years before any such mate could be found forhim: yet, at last, [pg 4] found shewas—one into whose head was bestowed all the wisdom thatmight be gat