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A Kidnapped Santa Claus by By L. FRANK BAUM

Santa Claus lives in the Laughing Valley, where stands the big, rambling castle in which his toys are manufactured. His workmen, selected from the ryls, knooks, pixies and fairies, live with him, and every...

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THE CLERGYMAN (REYNARD THE FOX, 1920) by JOHN MASEFIELD

A pommle cob came trotting up, Round-bellied like a drinking-cup, Bearing on back a pommle man Round-bellied like a drinking-can. The clergyman from Condicote. His face was scarlet from his trot, His white hair...

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THE PLOUGHMAN (REYNARD THE FOX, 1920) by JOHN MASEFIELD

At twenty past, old Baldock strode His ploughman’s straddle down the road. An old man with a gaunt, burnt face; His eyes rapt back on some far place, Like some starved, half-mad saint in...

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THE MEET (REYNARD THE FOX, 1920) by JOHN MASEFIELD

The meet was at “The Cock and PyeBy Charles and Martha Enderby,” The grey, three-hundred-year-old inn Long since the haunt of BenjaminThe highwayman, who rode the bay. The tavern fronts the coaching way, The...