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    The Gold Of Fairnilee
    The Gold Of Fairnilee
    The Gold Of Fairnilee
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    The Gold Of Fairnilee

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 25, 2013
    The Gold Of Fairnilee
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    Andrew Lang

    Andrew Lang (1844-1912) was a Scottish editor, poet, author, literary critic, and historian. He is best known for his work regarding folklore, mythology, and religion, for which he had an extreme interest in. Lang was a skilled and respected historian, writing in great detail and exploring obscure topics. Lang often combined his studies of history and anthropology with literature, creating works rich with diverse culture. He married Leonora Blanche Alleyne in 1875. With her help, Lang published a prolific amount of work, including his popular series, Rainbow Fairy Books.

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      The Gold Of Fairnilee - Andrew Lang

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Gold Of Fairnilee, by Andrew Lang

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      Title: The Gold Of Fairnilee

      Author: Andrew Lang

      Release Date: June 25, 2007 [EBook #21934]

      Last Updated: November 26, 2012

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE GOLD OF FAIRNILEE ***

      Produced by David Widger

      THE GOLD OF FAIRNILEE

      By Andrew Lang

      TO JEANIE LANG, LARRA

      Dear Jeanie,

      For you, far away on the other side of the world, I made this little tale of our own country. Your father and I have dug for treasure in the Camp of Rink, with our knives, when we were boys. We did not find it: the story will tell you why.

      Are there Fairies as well as Bunyips in Australia? I hope so.

      Yours always,

      WHUPPITY STOORIE'S SONG IN THIS TALE

      IS BY THE AUTHOR'S FRIEND, F. De Q. M.

      CONTENTS

      THE GOLD OF FAIRNILEE

      CHAPTER I.—The Old House

      CHAPTER II.—How Randal's Father Came Home

      CHAPTER III.—How Jean was brought to Fairnlee

      CHAPTER IV.—Randal and Jean.

      CHAPTER V.—The Good Folk

      CHAPTER VI.—The Wishing Well

      CHAPTER VII.—Where is Randal?

      CHAPTER VIII.—The Ill Years

      CHAPTER IX.—The White Roses

      CHAPTER X.—Out of fairyland

      CHAPTER XI.—The Fairy Bottle

      CHAPTER XII.—At the Catrail

      CHAPTER XIII.—The Gold of Fairnilee.

      Illustrations

      Frontispiece

      Chapter One

      Chapter Two

      Page 240

      Chapter Three

      Page 248

      Chapter Four

      Tracks of Hare and Fox

      Page 254

      Chapter Five

      Chapter Six

      Page 265

      Page 267

      Chapter Seven

      Chapter Eight

      Page 281

      Page 282

      Chapter Nine

      Page 287

      Chapter Ten

      Page 290

      Page 291

      Page 293

      Chapter Eleven

      Page 298

      Chapter Twelve

      Chapter Thirteen

      Page 308

      Page 309

      Page 311

      THE GOLD OF FAIRNILEE

      CHAPTER I.—The Old House

      YOU may still see the old Scotch house where Randal was born, so long ago. Nobody lives there now. Most of the roof has fallen in, there is no glass in the windows, and all the doors are open. They were open in the days of Randal's father—nearly four hundred years have passed since then—and everyone who came was welcome to his share of beef and broth and ale. But now the doors are not only open, they are quite gone, and there is nobody within to give you a welcome.

      So there is nothing but emptiness in the old house where Randal lived with Jean, three hundred and sixty years or so before you were born. It is a high old house, and wide, with the broken slates still on the roof. At the corner there are little round towers, like pepperboxes, with sharp peaks. The stems of the ivy that covers the walls are as thick as trees. There are many trees crowding all round, and there are hills round it too; and far below you hear the Tweed whispering all day. The house is called Fairnilee, which means the Fairies' Field; for people believed in fairies, as you shall hear, when Randal was a boy, and even when my father was a boy.

      Randal was all alone in the house when he was a little fellow—alone with his mother, and Nancy the old nurse, and Simon Grieve the butler, who wore a black velvet coat and a big silver chain. Then there were the maids, and the grooms, and the farm folk, who were all friends of Randal's. He was not lonely, and he did not feel unhappy, even before Jean came, as you shall be told. But the grown-up people were sad and silent at Fairnilee. Randal had no father; his mother, Lady Ker, was a widow. She was still quite young, and Randal thought her the most beautiful person in the world. Children think these things about their mothers, and Randal had seen no ladies but his mother only. She had brown hair and brown eyes and red lips, and a grave kind face, which looked serious under her great white widow's cap with the black hood over it. Randal never saw his mother cry; but when he was a very little child indeed, he had heard her crying in the night: this was after his father went away.

      CHAPTER II.—How Randal's Father Came Home

      RANDAL remembered his father's going to fight the English, and how he came back again. It was a windy August evening when he went away: the rain had fallen since morning. Randal had watched the white mists driven by the gale down through the black pine-wood that covers the hill opposite Fairnilee. The mist looked like armies of ghosts, he thought, marching, marching through the pines, with their white flags flying and streaming. Then the sun came out red at evening, and Randal's father rode away with all his men. He had a helmet on his head, and a great axe hanging from his neck by a chain, and a spear in his hand. He was riding his big horse, Sir Hugh, and he caught Randal up to the saddle

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