Memoirs of a Midget
BY THE SAME AUTHOR
THE THREE
MULLA-MULGARS
Illustrated by Dorothy P. Lathrop.
"The story concerns the adventures of three monkeys of royal blood ... atale of strange creatures and strange landscapes, of adventures andmisadventures in faery forests. One of those rare books that everyonewill love.
"Miss Lathrop's illustrations have placed her, at a bound, in the firstrank of American imaginative illustrators."
—Chicago Evening Post.
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NEW YORK: ALFRED A. KNOPF
COPYRIGHT, 1922, BY
WALTER DE LA MARE
Published, January, 1922
Set up and printed by the Veil-Ballon Co., Binghamton, N. Y.
Paper furnished by W. F. Etherington & Co., New York, N. Y.
Bound by the Plimpton Press, Norwood, Mass.
MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
TO THE MEMORY OF MY MOTHER
A wild beast there is in Ægypt, called orix, which the Ægyptians say,doth stand full against the dog starre when it riseth, looketh wistlyupon it, and testifieth after a sort by sneesing, a kind of worship....
Philemon Holland.
'Did'st thou ever see a lark in a cage? Such is the soul in the body:this world is like her little turf of grass; and the heaven o'er ourheads, like her looking-glass, only gives us a miserable knowledge ofthe small compass of our prison....'
John Webster.
'Provoke them not, fair sir, with tempting words; the heavens aregracious....'
Thomas Kyd.
Contents
| Introduction | 13 |
| Lyndsey | 19 |
| Beechwood | 71 |
| Wanderslore | 155 |
| Lyme Regis | 239 |
| London | 263 |
| Monks' House | 355 |
| Wanderslore | 399 |
| Lyndsey | 433 |
Memoirs of a Midget
Introduction
A few introductory and explanatory remarks are due, I think, to thereader of the following Memoirs. The Memoirs them