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THE WOOD BEYOND THE WORLD.
THE WOOD BEYOND THE
WORLD. BY WILLIAM
MORRIS.
LONDON: LAWRENCE AND BULLEN,
16, HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT
GARDEN. ^ MDCCCXCV.
CHISWICK PRESS: — CHARLES WHITTINGHAM AND CO.
TOOKS COURT, CHANCERY LANE, LONDON.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER PAGE
I. Of Golden Walter and his Father … I
II. Golden Walter takes Ship to sail the Seas 6
III. Walter heareth Tidings of the Death of his
Father 12
IV. Storm befalls the Bartholomew, and she is
driven off her Course 20
V. Now they come to a New Land … 25
VI. The Old Man tells Walter of himself.
Walter sees a Shard in the Cliff-wall. 33
VII. Walter comes to the Shard in the Rockwall 42
VIII. Walter wends the Waste 46
IX. Walter happeneth on the first of those
three Creatures 51
X. Walter happeneth on another Creature in
the Strange Land 57
XL Walter happeneth on the Mistress … 72
XII. The Wearing of four Days in the Wood
beyond the World 78
XIII. Now is the Hunt up 89
XIV. The Hunting of the Hart 99
XV. The Slaying of the Quarry 107
XVI. Of the King's Son and the Maid … ll3
XVII. Of the House and the Pleasance in the
Wood 121
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XVIII. The Maid gives Walter tryst … 128
XIX. Walter goes to fetch Home the Lion's
Hide 132
XX. Walter is bidden to another Tryst.. 141
XXI. Walter and the Maid flee from the
Golden House 148
XXII. Of the Dwarf and the Pardon... 153
XXIII. Of the peac…