LEGEND LAND [Illustration: (cover art: fairies tending a garden)] Being a further collection of some of the Old Tales told in those Western Parts of Britain served by the Great Western Railway Volume Three Price Sixpence [Illustration: Map of central England and Wales, the area covered by the Great Western Railway. Title reads: G. W. R. The line to legend land. Various places mentioned in the book are identified: Glasfryn Lake (page 20), Craig-Y ddinas (page 12), Narberth Castle (page 4), Melangell (page 8), Harlech Castle (page 16), St. Govan's Chapel (page 24).] LEGEND LAND Being a further collection of some of the _OLD TALES_ told in those Western Parts of Britain served by the _GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY_, now retold by _LYONESSE_ [Illustration: The shield of the Great Western Railway.] VOLUME THREE _Published in 1923 by_ THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY [FELIX J. C. POLE, GENERAL MANAGER] PADDINGTON STATION, LONDON CONTENTS AND ILLUSTRATIONS Contents and Illustrations _Page_ 2 Foreword 3 A Prince who would hang a Mouse 4 St. Melangell and Her “Lambs” 8 Where King Arthur Sleeps 12 Bronwen and the Starling 16 The Swan of Glasfryn 20 The Wonders of St. Govan’s Chapel 24 The Fairy Gardens of Treen 28 How the Dodman was Named 32 The Charmer of Pengersick 36 How St. German left Cornwall 40 The Spectre of Rosewarne 44 The Legend of the Four Halls 48 “John Dory,” a “Three Man’s” Song (_Supplement_) 52 [Illustration: **** Decorative divider ****] This is a reprint in book form of the third series of _The Line to Legend Land_ leaflets, together with a Supplement, “John Dory,” an old Cornish “Three Man’s” Song. The Map at the beginning provides a guide to the localities of the six Welsh legends, that at the back to those of Cornwall and “John Dory.” [Illustration: **** Decorative divider ****] _Printed by_ KELLY & KELLY, _Moor Lane, London, E.C.2._ FOREWORD This third volume of Legend Land tells some more of the old stories of those peoples, kindred in origin, the Welsh and the Cornish. They are mostly the old tales that have survived--who shall say how many generations? If you look into them, with the eyes of imagination, you will see behind them the simplest romances of a very simple people; a people that explained some uncomprehended thing with some comprehensible story, or who would invest the memories of their great men and women with records of wonderful achievement often formerly attributed to some yet earlier hero.