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Title: The Trumpeter of Krakow
Date of first publication: 1928
Author: Eric Philbrook Kelly (1884-1960)
Date first posted: Feb. 6, 2020
Date last updated: Feb. 6, 2020
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Copyright, 1928,
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.
Twenty Seventh Printing, 1957
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
TO
EDWARD LOWELL KELLY
LOUVILLE HOWARD MERRILL
| CONTENTS | ||
| PAGE | ||
| The Broken Note | [3] | |
| CHAPTER | ||
| I | The Man Who Wouldn’t Sell His Pumpkin | [9] |
| II | Krakow | [18] |
| III | The Alchemist | [36] |
| IV | The Good Jan Kanty | [51] |
| V | In the Street of the Pigeons | [63] |
| VI | The Tower of the Trumpeter | [76] |
| VII | In the Alchemist’s Loft | [85] |
| VIII | Peter of the Button Face | [96] |
| IX | Button-Face Peter Attacks | [113] |
| X | The Evil One Takes a Hand | [123] |
| XI | The Attack on the Church | [133] |
| XII | Elzbietka Misses the Broken Note | [147] |
| XIII | The Great Tarnov Crystal | [161] |
| XIV | A Great Fire Rages | [179] |
| XV | King Kazimir Jagiello | [192] |
| XVI | The Last of the Great Tarnov Crystal | [209] |
| Epilogue. | The Broken Note | [214] |
| ILLUSTRATIONS | ||
| The Trumpeter of Krakow | Frontispiece | |
| (This Illustration was Missing from Book when scanned) | ||
| Page | ||
| Guild Towers in the Old City Wall | [19] | |
| The Church of Our Lady Mary and the Cloth Hall | [27] | |
| Joseph Caught at the Dog’s Collar | Facing | [30] |
| The Court of the University of Krakow | [53] | |
| St. Katherine’s Church | [99] | |
| The Romanesque Towers of St. Andrew’s Church | [103] | |
| The Florian Gate | [135] | |
| The Tower of the Town Hall | [165] | |
| The Royal Palace of the Kings | [189] | |
| He Hurled the Crystal Into the Air | Facing | [193] |
| The Court of the Royal Palace | [205] | |
Ancient Oath of the Krakow Trumpeters
“I swear on my honor as a Pole, as a servant of the King of the Polish people, that I will faithfully and unto the death, if there be need, sound upon the trumpet the Heynal in honor of Our Lady each hour in the tower of the church which bears Her Name.”