PART II

ADVENTURES OLD AND NEW

INTRODUCTION 89

THE DAYS OF CHIVALRY

KING ARTHUR STORIES Adapted from _Sir Thomas Malory_

THE COMING OF ARTHUR 91

THE STORY OF GARETH 105

THE PEERLESS KNIGHT LANCELOT 126

THE PASSING OF ARTHUR 149

NARRATIVES IN VERSE

SIR PATRICK SPENS _Folk Ballad_ 168

THE SKELETON IN ARMOR _Henry W. Longfellow_ 171

THE THREE FISHERS _Charles Kingsley_ 177

LORD ULLIN’S DAUGHTER _Thomas Campbell_ 178

THE PIPES AT LUCKNOW _John Greenleaf Whittier_ 181

SPANISH WATERS _John Masefield_ 184

KILMENY—A SONG OF THE TRAWLERS _Alfred Noyes_ 186

THE GUARDS CAME THROUGH _Sir Arthur Conan Doyle_ 188

STORIES OF THE SEA

A DESCENT INTO THE MAELSTROM _Edgar Allan Poe_ 191

THE WRECK OF THE GOLDEN MARY _Charles Dickens_ 210

TALES FROM SHAKESPEARE

AS YOU LIKE IT _Charles and Mary Lamb_ 259

THE TEMPEST _Charles and Mary Lamb_ 275