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This beguiling tale has everything: runaway orphans, kings, knights, an evil witch, and a lovable, table-high Snerg named Gorbo who leads children from one fantastic adventure to another. Tolkien called this forgotten classic a "sourcebook" for The Hobbit — and it's a must for any Rings ... read more
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First Sentence edit
If any seafaring person, such as a yachtsman, were to sail around the corner of Watkyns Bay in the morning, he would find large numbers of children playing in the water, and would be either pleased or depressed at the sight according to the way his nature was originally formed.
Table of Contents edit
PART I
1. A Place apart
2. Miss Watkyns
3. Ways and Means
4. The Snergs
5. Sylvia
6. Joe
7. Vanderdecken and his Men
8. How the Adventure started
9. How it really began
10. The Turret Chamber
11. How Joe bore Captivity
12. The Forest Land
13. The Dawn
14. Gorbo the Snerg
15. THe Town
16. The Royal House
17. THe King of the Snergs
18. The Feast
19. A Morning Walk
20. The Twisted Trees
PART II
21. Trouble at Watkyn's Bay
22. Beyond the Door
23. The Mushroom Cavern
24. The other side of the River
25. Golithos the Ogre
26. Dinner with Golithos
27. Golithos explains
28. The Upstairs Room
29. Gorbo's Doubts
30. Golithos is tempted
31. Beyond the Tower
32. The Knight Errant
33. Sir Percival's Job
34. The Mysterious Castle
35. Sir Percival's Annoyance
36. The Castle Kitchen
37. Breakfast
38. A Terrible Moment
39. More Trouble
40. The Sorrows of Baldry
41. The Dark Woods
42. Mother Meldrum's House
43. More Sorrow for Baldry
44. A Change of Tone
45. Disaster with a Witch
46. The Spare Bedroom
47. What happened in the Night
48. The Green Ride
49. Captives
PART III
50. The Doings at Home
51. The Ingenuity of Vanderdecken
52. How they passed over the River
53. Boot and Saddle
54. The First Day's March
55. The Mysterious Castle again
56. How Gorbo gathered Mandrakes
57. The Cozening of Gorbo
58. A Fearful Bargain
59. Captives on the Road
60. King Kul I
61. A Change in Clothes at last
62. Another Meal with Royalty
63. A Stinger
64. The Morning after
65. The Invation
66. An Historic Meeting
67. Necessary Explanations
68. Baldry's Sentence
69. Royal Clemency
70. The Next Day
71. And the Day after that
72. Captives again
73. The Barren Rocks
74. How Gorbo found the Way
75. The Reform of Golithos
76. Mother Meldrum goes
77. All Troubles over
78. Back across the River
79. Back to the Town
80. Back to Watkyn's Bay
81. To finish up
Authors & Contributors edit
Other Contributors:
- Douglas A. Anderson (Editor)
- George Morrow (Illustrator)
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