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The Unknown Quantity
Henry Van Dyke
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HALF-TOLD TALES THE KEY OF THE TOWERTHE RIPENING OF THE FRUIT
THE KING'S JEWEL
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THE KEY of the TOWERSo the first knight came to the Tower. Now his name was Casse-Tout, because wherever he came there was much breaking of things that stood in his way. And when he saw that the door of the Tower was shut (for it was very early in the morning, and all the woods lay asleep in the shadow, and only the weather-cock on the uppermost gable of the roof was turning in the light wind of dawn), it seemed to him that the time favoured a bold deed and a masterful entrance.
He laid hold of the door, therefore, and shook it; but the door would not give. Then he set his shoulder to it and thrust mightily; but the door did not so much as creak. Whereupo. . . Read More
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I want to call this a book of fables. As with Aesop (whom I read much too long ago to remember much) each has something of a lesson or moral in it, and they are all just a little magical--no powerful wizardry, but nothing less than a very fortuitous coincidence, and sometimes the involvement of some