THE THREE
MULLA-MULGARS
BY
WALTER DE LA MARE
ILLUSTRATED BY
DOROTHY · P · LATHROP

New York ALFRED · A · KNOPF Mcmxxv

COPYRIGHT, 1919, BY
ALFRED A. KNOPF, Inc.
Published, December, 1919
Second Printing, February, 1925
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

TO
F. and D.
and
L. and C.

ILLUSTRATIONS

"Oh, but if I might but hold it in my hand one moment, I think I should never even sigh again!"[Frontispiece]
"The Queen of the Mountains is in the Forest—with fingers of frost"[42]
The Wonderstone[75]
Nod was never left alone[80]
He jumped, he reared, he kicked, he plunged, he wriggled, he whinnied[90]
Nod danced the Jaqquas' war-dance, ... stooping and crooked, "wriggle and stamp"[129]
He felt a sudden darkness above his head, and a cold terror crept over his skin[132]
With sticks and staves and flaring torches they turned on the fierce birds that came sweeping and swirling out of the dark[189]
"What is it, brother? Why do you crouch and stare?"[218]
"For there stood as if frozen in the moonlight the monstrous silver-haired Meermuts of Mulgarmeerez, guarding the enchanted orchards of Tishnar"[224]
They feasted on fruits they never before had tasted nor knew to grow on earth[232]
A Mulgar of a presence and a strangeness, who was without doubt of the Kingdom of Assasimmon[274]