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Title: The Three Mulla-mulgars

Author: Walter De La Mare

Illustrator: Dorothy P. Lathrop

Release Date: May 31, 2010 [EBook #32620]

Language: English

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THE THREE MULLA-MULGARS

[Illustration: "OH, BUT IF I MIGHT BUT HOLD IT IN MY HAND ONE MOMENT, I
THINK THAT I SHOULD NEVER EVEN SIGH AGAIN!"]

THE THREE
MULLA-MULGARS

BY
WALTER DE LA MARE

ILLUSTRATED BY
DOROTHY P LATHROP

[Illustration]

_New York_ ALFRED.A.KNOPF _Mcmxxv_

COPYRIGHT, 1919, BY
ALFRED A. KNOPF, INC.

_Published, December, 1919
Second Printing, February, 1925_

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

TO
F. AND D.
AND
L. AND C.

ILLUSTRATIONS

"Oh, but if I might but hold it in my hand one
moment, I think I should never even sigh again!" _Frontispiece_

"The Queen of the Mountains is in the Forest--with fingers
of frost" 42

The Wonderstone 75

Nod was never left alone 80

He jumped, he reared, he kicked, he plunged, he wriggled,
he whinnied 90

Nod danced the Jaqquas' war-dance, ... stooping and
crooked, "wriggle