Tales from silver lands

by Charles Joseph Finger

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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TO THE GOLDEN HEARTED

CARL SANDBURG

AND HIS FRIENDS, MY CHILDREN

HELEN AND HERBERT

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CONTENTS
CHAPTER		PAGE
I	A Tale of Three Tails	[1]
II	The Magic Dog	[14]
III	The Calabash Man	[23]
IV	Na-Ha the Fighter	[35]
V	The Humming-Bird and the Flower	[43]
VI	The Magic Ball	[48]
VII	El Enano	[59]
VIII	The Hero Twins	[69]
IX	The Four Hundred	[79]
X	The Killing of Cabrakan	[92]
XI	The Tale of the Gentle Folk	[99]
XII	The Tale that Cost a Dollar	[107]
XIII	The Magic Knot	[122]
XIV	The Bad Wishers	[134]
XV	The Hungry Old Witch	[143]
XVI	The Wonderful Mirror	[156]
XVII	The Tale of the Lazy People	[170]
XVIII	Rairu and the Star Maiden	[188]
XIX	The Cat and the Dream Man	[197]

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WOODCUTS

One day there came to their house a man in a torn poncho

[Frontispiece]

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When the first snow commenced to fall she was always full of glee, standing on a rock, screaming like a wind-gale	[48]
He took flat pieces of wood and began cutting out figures like little men	[176]
Soon, to his astonishment he saw, close at hand, a beautiful city	[194]

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