The Wood Beyond the World
William Morris
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The Wood Beyond the World
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This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. WALTER HEARETH TIDINGS OF THE DI OF HIS FATHER. FAST sailed the Katherine over seas, and naught befell to tell either to herself or her crew. She cam one cheaping-town and then to anot and so on to a third and a fourth; am each was buying and selling after the n ner of chapmen; and Walter not ( looked on the doings of his father's 1 but lent a hand, what he might, to 1 them in all matters, whether it were in man's craft, or in chaffer. And the fur he went and the longer the time wore, more he was eased of his old trouble whe his wife and her treason had to do. as for the other trouble, to wit his de and longing to come up with those th The last of it yet flickered before him; and though he had noj gggjj them again as one sees people in the streets, and as if he might touch them if he would, yet were their images often before his mind's eye; and yet, as time wore, not so often, nor so troublously; and forsooth both to those about him and to himself, he seemed as a man well healed of his melancholy mood. Now they left that fourth stead, and sailed over the seas, and came to a fifth, a very great and fair city, which they had made more than seven months from Lang- ton on Holm; and by this time was Walter taking heed and joyance in such things as were toward in that fair city, so far from his kindred, and especially he looked on the fair women there, and desired them, and loved them; but lightly, as befalleth young men. Now this was the last country whereto the Katherine was boun; so there they abode some ten months in daily chaffer, and in pleasuring them in beholding all that there was of rare and goodly, and making merry with the merchants and thegates, and Walter was grown as bt gay as a strong young man is like and was as one who would fain be o account a...

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The Wood Beyond the World, by William Morris
THE WOOD BEYOND THE WORLD
CHAPTER I: OF GOLDEN WALTER AND HIS FATHER
CHAPTER II: GOLDEN WALTER TAKES SHIP TO SAIL THE SEAS
CHAPTER III: WALTER HEARETH TIDINGS OF THE DEATH OF HIS FATHER
CHAPTER IV: STORM BEFALLS THE BARTHOLOMEW, AND SHE IS DRIVEN OFF HER COURSE
CHAPTER V: NOW THEY COME TO A NEW LAND
CHAPTER VI: THE OLD MAN TELLS WALTER OF HIMSELF.  WALTER SEES A SHARD IN THE CLIFF-WALL
CHAPTER VII: WALTER COMES TO THE SHARD IN THE ROCK-WALL
CHAPTER VIII: WALTER WENDS THE WASTE
CHAPTER IX: WALTER HAPPENETH ON THE FIRST OF THOSE THREE CREATURES
CHAPTER X: WALTER HAPPENETH ON ANOTHER CREATURE IN THE STRANGE LAND
CHAPTER XI: WALTER HAPPENETH ON THE MISTRESS
CHAPTER XII: THE WEARING OF FOUR DAYS IN THE WOOD BEYOND THE WORLD
CHAPTER XIII: NOW IS THE HUNT UP
CHAPTER XIV: THE HUNTING OF THE HART
CHAPTER XV: THE SLAYING OF THE QUARRY
CHAPTER XVI: OF THE KING’S SON AND THE MAID
CHAPTER XVII: OF THE HOUSE AND THE PLEASANCE IN THE WOOD
CHAPTER XVIII: THE MAID GIVES WALTER TRYST
CHAPTER XIX: WALTER GOES TO FETCH HOME THE LION’S HIDE
CHAPTER XX: WALTER IS BIDDEN TO ANOTHER TRYST
CHAPTER XXI: WALTER AND THE MAID FLEE FROM THE GOLDEN HOUSE
CHAPTER XXII: OF THE DWARF AND THE PARDON
CHAPTER XXIII: OF THE PEACEFUL ENDING OF THAT WILD DAY
CHAPTER XXIV: THE MAID TELLS OF WHAT HAD BEFALLEN HER
CHAPTER XXV: OF THE TRIUMPHANT SUMMER ARRAY OF THE MAID
CHAPTER XXVI: THEY COME TO THE FOLK OF THE BEARS
CHAPTER XXVII: MORNING AMONGST THE BEARS
CHAPTER XXVIII: OF THE NEW GOD OF THE BEARS
CHAPTER XXIX: WALTER STRAYS IN THE PASS AND IS SUNDERED FROM THE MAID
CHAPTER XXX: NOW THEY MEET AGAIN
CHAPTER XXXI: THEY COME UPON NEW FOLK
CHAPTER XXXII: OF THE NEW KING OF THE CITY AND LAND OF STARK-WALL
CHAPTER XXXIII: CONCERNING THE FASHION OF KING-MAKING IN STARK-WALL
CHAPTER XXXIV: NOW COMETH THE MAID TO THE KING
CHAPTER XXXV: OF THE KING OF STARK-WALL AND HIS QUEEN
CHAPTER XXXVI: OF WALTER AND THE MAID IN THE DAYS OF THE KINGSHIP
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