THE WISDOM OF THE KING

The High?Queen of the Island of Woods had died in childbirth, and her child ut to h a woman who lived in a hut of mud and wicker, within the border of the wood. One night the woman sat rog the cradle, and p over the beauty of the child, and praying that the gods might grant him wisdom equal to his beauty. There came a knock at the door, and she got up, not a little w, for the neighbours were in the dun of the High? King a mile away; and the night was now late. Who is knog? she cried, and a thin voiswered, Open! for I am a e of the grey hawk, and I e from the darkness of the great wood. In terror she drew back the bolt, and a grey?clad woman, of a great age, and of a height more than human, came in and stood by the head of the cradle. The nurse shrank back against the wall, uo take her eyes from the woman, for she saw by the gleaming of the firelight that the feathers of the grey hawk were upon her head instead of hair. But the child slept, and the fire……(内容加载失败!)

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