The Bookshelf for boys and girls Historic Tales and Golden Deeds part 4 (1912)
University Society, New York · New York. : University Society · leaf 208
fellows; I cant open the fairin person, but I will send my glove to do it.You all know my glove. Nobody has one like itin the country. It is the one my lady mother em-broidered for me in colored silks and silver wire, and it has a deep violet fringe. You can hang itabove the entrance of your fair… … AN EAKL S GLOVE OPENING A COUNTY FAIK. In the thirteenth century a powerful earl is saidto have delivered up a great tract of land to theKing of France by promising him the land andsending or giving his glove as pledge of good faith. In fact, now and then some stag-hunting lordwho, when a boy, had…
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