From the legends of creation to a stray cricket ball Jack Haynes' tales, often humorous, often sad, have an unmistakable charm of their own.

Through the pages roam kings and queens, warriors and highwaymen, phantom horsemen and gallant dragoons. perhaps the story that best typifies the spirit of the collection is that of Ned, the dying countryman, in whose veins runs as much tree sap as red blood.

CONTENTS : The beginning; How th Land Took Shape; Lord of the Far Distances; Siessa; The Valley of Shadows; How the Kingdom Was Saved; The Eternal Walker of the Hills; The Mighty Slain; The Serving Girl; The Phantom of Owl-Hoot Hollow; Tom O' the Road; the Bakehouse; The Two Portaits; The Last Tenant of Willenden Manor; The Village Band; The Grey Hunter; The Lost Heritage; The Return; Poetic Justice; The Bet; The Passing of Old Ned; Through All the Changing Scenes...; The Green Cloak; Jack Rawlings in London.

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