The Bookshelf for boys and girls Children's Book of Fact and Fancy (1912)
University Society, New York · New York. : University Society · leaf 142
nswer to his words, the bird left hisperch and flitted farther into the wood. Nowit tarried upon one tree, now upon another,Blondel always following, until it led him closeto the walls of a gloomy fortress flanked by onesquare tower, set in the very heart of the greatforest. There was no longer… … BLONDEL BEFORE RICHARD S TOWER. a short prelude and began to sing a mournfullittle melody that he and Richard had oftensung together while the English monarch wascrusading in the land of the Saracen. Scarcely had he completed the first stanzawhen a voice far up in the tower, the voice heknew and…
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