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Title: King Arthur's Knights
The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls

Author: Henry Gilbert

Release Date: August 25, 2007 [eBook #22396]

Language: English

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KING ARTHUR'S KNIGHTS:

The Tales Re-Told for Boys & Girls

by

HENRY GILBERT.

With Illustrations in Color by Walter Crane

Thomas Nelson and Sons
New York, Edinburgh, London
Toronto, And Paris

In tholde dayes of the King Arthour,
Of which that Britons speken great honour,
All was this land fulfilled of faery.

_The Canterbury Tales._

Printed in the United States of America

PREFACE

This book is an attempt to tell some of the stories of King Arthur and
his Knights in a way which will be interesting to every boy and girl
who loves adventures.

Although tales of these old British heroes have been published before
in a form intended for young people, it is believed that they have
never been related quite in the same spirit nor from the same point of
view; and it is hoped that the book will fill a place hitherto vacant
in the hearts of all boys and girls.

No doubt many of you, my young readers, have at some time or another
taken down the _Morte D'Arthur_ from your father's bookshelves and read
a few pages of it here and there. But I doubt if any of you have ever
gone very far in the volume. You found generally, I think, that it was
written in a puzzling, old-fashioned language, that though it spoke of
many interesting things, and seemed that it ought to be well worth
re