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Title: A child's book of warriors
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Canton, William, 1845-1926
Subjects: Legends
Publisher: London : J.M Dent & sons, ld New York, E.P. Dutton & co. London, J.M. Dent
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
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or on the mistymoors, had folk stopped to gaze after such strangewanderers as the blind hermit, bare-headed and bare-footed, with the wolf by his side, and the childflitting like a gleesome elf of the apple-trees. Some-times they met with but cold comfort, but for themost part their very strangeness won them all theyasked for. When the minster was built it was a world ofwonder how anything so beautiful could have beenwrought by a blind man; and long afterwards, whenaged people told how Herve used to sing and playto the workmen as they laboured, it became a legendthat long ago, on a summer night, the minster hadsprung up to the music of an angel. Who so happy as Christina when Herve gave hercharge of the church, to keep it clean, and to havefair white linen and flowers on the altar ? Sometimeswhen she was singing at her task, he would open thedoor softly, and stand to listen; but she would hearhim, and call, Uncle, I see you; and he wouldquickly steal away, strangely light-hearted. 64
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Jind to /jave/hir w/)Ue (men andf/owers on iheaftar Herve and Christina One stern and thrilling scene entered into Hervesgentle life before the end. The savage chief Canaohad slain his brother Hoel; and setting aside Hoelslittle son Judual, had made himself High Princeinstead. Treacherous and cruel, he oppressed thepeople, ravaging their fields and burning their home-steads. Their holy men alone could help them.But when the Bishops of the Nine Churches hadwarned Canao in vain, they sat in council and foundthere was but one way to check the tyrant. They assembled on the solitary hill, Menez-Bre,from which one looks over leagues of country, andalong the crinkled shores and the grey sea of Cornouaille. Upon that hill-top was a dolmen of ancientdays, and beside it the bishops kindled a torch, andgiving it to Herve, whom they had summoned tothem, they bade him utter against Canao the greatcurse which casts a man forth from all Christianheritage. And Herve mounted the old stones, andcried

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