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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Tales from Many Sources, by Various
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Title: Tales from Many Sources
Vol. V
Author: Various
Release Date: August 2, 2005 [EBook #16415]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
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Tales
From Many Sources
Vol. V.
New York
Dodd Mead & Company
1886
CONTENTS.
PAGE.
LOB LIE-BY-THE-FIRE. BY JULIANA H. EWING. 1
WILD JACK. FROM TEMPLE BAR. 87
VIRGINIA. BY MRS. FORRESTER. 145
MR. JOSIAH SMITH'S BALLOON VOYAGE. FROM BELGRAVIA. 172
NUMBER 7639. BY MARY FRANCES PEARD. 137
GONERIL. BY A. MARY F. ROBINSON. 239
OUT OF SEASON. FROM TEMPLE BAR. 266
LOB LIE-BY-THE-FIRE
INTRODUCTORY.
Lob Lie-By-The-Fire--the Lubber-fiend, as Milton calls him--is a rough
kind of Brownie or House Elf, supposed to haunt some north-country
homesteads, where he does the work of the farm labourers, for no grander
wages than
"--to earn his cream bowl duly set."
Not that he is insensible of the pleasures of rest, for
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