Category: Children & Young Adult Reading
Page Introduction xi The Adventures of a Piskey in Search of his Laugh 1 The Legend of the Padstow Doombar 51 The Little Cake-bird 71 The Impounded Crows 99 The Piskeys' Revenge 113 The Old Sky Woman 125 Reefy, Reefy Rum 131 The Little Horses and Horsemen of Padstow 139 How Ja...
When she had gone, the little Piskey turned his face towards the east, where the Tors rose up dark and shadowy against the moonlit sky. Then he looked back at the great keep, an...
7. Part 7When he reached the bottom of the town and the house where the little men and their horses usually stood, he glanced up, and to his surprise saw them standing on the tile-ridge,...
5. Part 5When the day had gone, and night had come, Tamsin banked up the fire on the hearthstone, and then she and Phillida went to bed. The old woman knew that the Piskeys would not com...
3. Part 3'He hasn't tried to lift his sand-ropes yet, and he won't begin his howl of rage till he finds how brittle they are,' said the Little Bargeman.' And a very good thing for you,'...
4. Part 4'Is it?' cried the beautiful maid, taking up another tress of her golden hair, and slowly combing its silken length with her sea-green comb. 'But let me tell you once and for ev...
6. Part 6'The people who came flocking to church when they heard that the crows were safe in the Crow Pound were almost as astonished as St. Neot to see such a big congregation of birds.
1. Part 1Page Introduction xi The Adventures of a Piskey in Search of his Laugh 1 The Legend of the Padstow Doombar 51 The Little Cake-bird 71 The Impounded Crows 99 The Piskeys' Revenge...
8. Part 8She was a little quick woman, with twinkling dark eyes, and whenever she went over to Newtrain to watch the Piskeys, she wore a black cottage-bonnet over her neat jinnie-guick c...