More Tales of the Ridings
by
F.W.Moorman, 1872 - 1919
Contents
[Melsh Dick]
[Two Letters]
[A Miracle]
[Tales of a grandmother]
[ I. The Tree of Knowledge]
[II. Janet's Cove]
[The Potato and the Pig]
[Coals of Fire]
Melsh Dick
Melsh Dick is the last survivor of our woodland divinities. His pedigree reaches back to the satyrs and dryads of Greek mythology; he claims kinship with the fauns that haunted the groves of leafy Tibur, and he lorded it in the green woods of merry England when
The woodweele sang and wold not cease,