By Abbie Farwell Brown
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THE BOOK OF SAINTS AND
FRIENDLY BEASTS
ST. BRIDGET & THE KING'S WOLF
THE BOOK OF SAINTS
AND FRIENDLY BEASTS
BY ABBIE FARWELL
BROWN. ILLUSTRATED
BY FANNY Y. CORY
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND CO.
BOSTON AND NEW YORK
BOSTON AND NEW YORK
COPYRIGHT 1900 BY ABBIE FARWELL BROWN, ALL RIGHTS
RESERVED
RESERVED
IN LOVING MEMORY OF A
FRIENDLY BEAST
FRIENDLY BEAST
BROTHER, HAST THOU NEVER LEARNED INHOLY WRIT, THAT WITH HIM WHO HASLED HIS LIFE AFTER GOD'S WILL THE WILDBEASTS AND WILD BIRDS ARE TAME?
SAINT GUTHLAC OF CROWLAND
IN the old legends there may be thingswhich some folk nowadays find it hardto believe. But surely the theme ofeach is true. It is not hard to see howgentle bodies who had no other friends shouldmake comrades of the little folk in fur andfins and feathers. For, as St. Francisknew so well, all the creatures are our littlebrothers, ready to meet halfway those whowill but try to understand. And this is atruth which every one to-day, even tho' hebe no Saint, is waking up to learn. Thehappenings are set down quite as they readin the old books. Veritable histories, likethose of St. Francis and St. Cuthbert, askno addition of color to make them real. Butsometimes, when a mere line of legend remainedto hint of some dear Saint's relationwith his friendly Beast, the story has beenfilled out in the way that seemed most likelyto be true. For so alone could the old talebe made alive again. So all one's best isdressing old words new.
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