THE FEATHER
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THE CHILDREN’S
LIBRARY
THE FEATHER
THE CHILDREN’S LIBRARY.
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  • THE BROWN OWL.
  • A CHINA CUP, and other Stories.
  • STORIES FROM FAIRYLAND.
  • TALES FROM THE MABINOGION.
  • THE STORY OF A PUPPET.
  • THE LITTLE PRINCESS.
  • IRISH FAIRY TALES.
  • AN ENCHANTED GARDEN.
  • LA BELLE NIVERNAISE.
  • THE FEATHER.
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(Others in the Press.)
girl carried off by  very large eagle
“BUT THE EAGLE HAD THE BEST OF ITAFTER ALL.”
THE FEATHER
BY
FORD H. MADOX HUEFFER
AUTHOR OF ‘THE BROWN OWL’



WITH FRONTISPIECE BY
F. MADOX BROWN




LONDON
T. FISHER UNWIN
1892
emblem: T, F, U entwined
TO JULIET
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‘True, I talk of dreams,
Which are the children of an idle brain,
Begot of nothing but vain fantasy,
Which is as thin of substance as the air.’
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THE FEATHER
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ONCE upon a time therewas a King who reignedover a country as yet,for a reason you maylearn later on, undiscovered—a mostlovely country, full of green dales andgroves of oak, a land of dappledmeadows and sweet rivers, a greencup in a circlet of mountains, inwhose shadow the grass was greenest;and the only road to enter the countrylay up steep, boiling waterfalls, andthereafter through rugged passes, thechannels that the rivers had cut forthemselves. Therefore, as you mayimagine, the dwellers in the land were[2]little troubled by inroads of hostilenations; and they lived peaceful lives,man                        
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