Project Gutenberg's The Boy Who Knew What The Birds Said, by Padraic Colum

This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or
re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included
with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org

Title: The Boy Who Knew What The Birds Said

Author: Padraic Colum

Illustrator: Dugald Stewart Walker

Release Date: February 2, 2008 [EBook #24493]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE BOY WHO KNEW ***

Produced by David Edwards, Diane Monico, and the Online
Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net. (This
file was produced from images generously made available
by The Internet Archive.)

[Illustration]

The Boy Who Knew What The Birds Said

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

NEW YORK :: BOSTON :: CHICAGO :: DALLAS
ATLANTA :: SAN FRANCISCO

MACMILLAN & CO., LIMITED

LONDON :: BOMBAY :: CALCUTTA
MELBOURNE

THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, LTD.

TORONTO

[Illustration: Round and round the Castle they went and the Giant with
his strength was wearing out Feet-in-the-Ashes.]

The Boy Who Knew
What The Birds Said

By Padraic Colum

_Illustrated by
Dugald Stewart Walker_

[Illustration]

The Macmillan Company, Publishers
New York Mcmxx

[Illustration]

COPYRIGHT, 1918
BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
Set up and electrotyped. Published October, 1918.

For The Boy In The Brocken

[Illustration]

Contents

PAGE

How he came to know what the birds said 13

The Stone of Victory.
And how Feet-in-the-Ashes, the Swineherd's Son, came to find it 21

The King of the Birds 51

Bloom-of-Youth and the Witch of the Elders 67

The Hen-wife's Son and the Princess Bright Brow 85

The Giant and the Birds 113

The Sea-Maiden who became a Sea-Swan 133

What the Peacock and the Crow Told Each Other 149

The Treasure of King Labraid Lorc 163

[Illustration]

[Illustration]

List of Full Page Illustrations