MacMillan, Cyrus, 1880-1953 · London : John Lane · leaf 266
and said in greatsurprise, You should not be here. Why have you come ? And the boy said, I seek my sister. In the early spring-time she sickened and died, and I am going to the Landof Shadows in the Country of Silence in search of her. You must go far inland, said the skeleton, and theway is hard… … THEN THE OLD MAN GAVE THE BOY A LARGE PIPE AND SOME TOBACCO THE BOY IN THE LAND OF SHADOWS 199 he saw his strange companion with the pipe between histeeth. The skeleton smoked for some time and at last, asthe smoke rose from his pipe, it changed to a flock of littlewhite birds, which flew about…
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