# A creel of Irish stories

Author: Barlow, Jane, 1856-1917

Genre: Category: Short Stories

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/75587

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=A+creel+of+Irish+stories+Barlow&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

could recover himself, the unwieldy weight slid down with a crash, and was shattered into three fragments on the floor. Nobody heeded, however, for the light that broke out of the open chest drew all eyes thither. It was like a cistern filled with crystalline fire. “Empty it, my son,” said the old Sultaness, and the Prince began to lift out one by one the treasures it contained. Silver goblets there were and flagons, great gilt bowls and ewers, filigree caskets set with diamonds, chains of red gold, and ropes of milk-white pearls, diadems and necklaces, armlets and girdles, whose pendant gems dripped a many-coloured brilliance, as of flower-distained dew. At the bottom of the chest lay a...

## Chapters

- [lid. As they did so, the foot of one of them slipped, and before he](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-creel-of-irish-stories-75587/chapters/1/index.md)
- [letter I’ve wrote to him, nor he to me. But now there’s the young](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-creel-of-irish-stories-75587/chapters/2/index.md)