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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Stories from the Ballads, by Mary MacGregor 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: Stories from the Ballads Told to the Children Author: Mary MacGregor Illustrator: Katharine Cameron Release Date: July 30, 2007 [EBook #22175] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK STORIES FROM THE BALLADS *** Produced by Robin Monks, Joseph Cooper, Sankar Viswanathan, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net [Illustration: She was off and away to the lone plain of Carterhaugh] STORIES FROM THE BALLADS TOLD TO THE CHILDREN BY MARY MACGREGOR WITH PICTURES BY KATHARINE CAMERON LONDON: T. C. & E. C. JACK NEW YORK: E. P. DUTTON & CO. * * * * * TO DORIS * * * * * ABOUT THIS BOOK Listen, children, for you will wish to hear where I found the tales which I have told you in this little book. It is long, oh! so long ago, that they were sung up hill and down dale by wandering singers who soon became known all over the country as minstrels, or ofttimes, because they would carry with them a harp, as harpers. In court, in cottage, by princes and by humble folk, everywhere, by every one the minstrels were greeted with delight. To such sweet music did they sing the songs or ballads which they made or perchance had heard, to such sweet music, that those who listened could forget nor tale nor tune. In those far-off days of minstrelsy the country was alive with fairies. Over the mountains, through the glens, by babbling streams and across silent moors, the patter of tiny feet might be heard, feet which had strayed from Elfinland. It was of these little folk and of their visits to the homes of mortals that the minstrels sang. Sterner songs too were theirs, songs of war and bloodshed, when clan fought with clan and lives were lost and
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