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THE TRUE STORY BOOK. Edited by ANDREW LANG. With
Plates and Illustrations in the Text by H. J.
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[Illustration: MONTEZUMA GREETS THE SPANIARDS]

THE TRUE STORY BOOK

Edited by

ANDREW LANG

With Numerous Illustrations by L. Bogle, Lucien Davis, H. J. Ford,
C. H. M. Kerr, and Lancelot Speed

[Illustration]

London
Longmans, Green, and Co
and New York: 15 East 16th Street
1893

All rights reserved

_DEDICATION_

_TO FRANCIS McCUNN_

_You like the things I used to like,
The things I'm fond of still,
The sound of fairy wands that strike
Men into beasts at will;_

_The cruel stepmother, the fair
Stepdaughter, kind and leal,
The bull and bear so debonair,
The trenchant fairy steel._

_You love the world where brute and fish
Converse with man and bird,
Where dungeons open at a wish,
And seas dry at a word._

_That merry world to-day we leave,
We list an ower-true tale,
Of hearts that sore for Charlie grieve,
When handsome princes fail,_

_Of gallant races overthrown,
Of dungeons ill to climb,
There's no such tale of trouble known,
In all the fairy time._

_There Montezuma still were king,
There Charles would wear the crown,
And there the Highlanders would ding
The Hanoverian down:_

_In Fairyland the Rightful Cause
Is never long a-winning,
In Fairyland the fairy laws
Are prompt to punish sinning:_

_For Fairyland's the land of joy,
And this the world of pain,
So back to Fairyland, my boy,
We'll journey once again!_

INTRODUCTION

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