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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ing of the bridal party until they entered the forest. The Baroness then descended in sorrow from the tower, put on mourning apparel, and wept three live-long days in concert with her He found a hundred-weight of gold, all in doubloons. husband and remaining daughters. On the fourth day the Baron quitted the mourning chamber to breathe a little fresh air, when behold, as he passed through the court, he perceived a strong box of ebony, locked, and very heavy to lift. He readilyguessed the contents; instinctively putting his hand into his pocket he was surprised to find a key which turned the lock, when to his further amazement he found a hundred-weight of gold, all in doubloons, and of one coinage. In his joy at this accession to wealth he forgot his sorrow, and in a few days bought horses and falcons, also fine clothes for his wife and daughters, hired servants, and began to renew his old course of riotous carousals, and which he continued till the last doubloon had made itself wings and flown out of the strong box. He then ran into debt, and when he had exhausted the patience of his creditors, the sheriffs seized upon the castle and sold everything the Baron possessed, except a few domestic articles and an old hawk. The Baroness and her daughters again took charge of the kitchen, while the Baron traversed the fields day after day withhis hawk on his hand, glad to escape the discomforts of his house. One day he loosed his hawk: and the bird rose high in the air, nor would it return to its master's hand, although he called it back. The Baron followed it in its flight as far as he could over the spacious plain. The bird flew towards the enchanted wood, which the Baron was afraid to enter, and so gave up his old hawk for lost. On a sudden a mighty eagle arose from out o...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217717854 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217717853 |
| Weight | 0.21 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.13 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 56 pages |
| Publisher | |
| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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