{"collection":"myth-cosmogony","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/gutenberg_66966/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/gutenberg_66966","id":"gutenberg_66966","license":"Public Domain (US)","rights_basis":"gutenberg_metadata_copyright_false","source":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/66966","summary":null,"tags":["Category: Children & Young Adult Reading","Category: Mythology, Legends & Folklore","Christmas stories","Fantasy fiction","Winter -- Juvenile fiction"],"text":"LEGENDS for LIONEL:\n\nin pen and pencil\n\nBY\n\nWALTER CRANE\n\n[Illustration]\n\n  CASSELL & COMP\u2019Y LIMITED\n  LONDON; PARIS; NEW YORK\n  & MELBOURNE\n  1887\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\n\n\nPREFACE\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\nAll Lions have tails: some\u2014like the one here\u2014remarkably long ones.\nSome Lionels I know have \u201cLegends\u201d instead. The Lionel for which these\nwere made is a great devourer of them, and he also has an appetite for\npictures to paint. This book of sketches, the offspring of the odd half\nhours of winter evenings, was originally intended strictly for home\nconsumption. One thing, however, leads to another, just as the sketches\ndid, following one by one as fancy led, till they filled the book,\nand this book falling under the eye of Messrs Cassell (through the\nvoluntary offices of a sympathetic and enthusiastic friend) \u201cLegends\nfor Lionel\u201d may become legends for legions of Lionels.\n\nThat both Lionels and others may get as much fun out of the book as did\nits own father\u2014and Lionel\u2019s\u2014is the wish of both, at any rate\n\n  Walter Crane.\n  [Illustration]\n\nAug: 1887\n\n\n\n\nJack Frost sends his Herald\n\n[Illustration]\n\nwithout their leaves,\n\n[Illustration]\n\nand just as the World is thinking of skating\u2014\n\n[Illustration]\n\ncomes Thaw;\n\n[Illustration]\n\n[Illustration]\n\nfollowed by Fog, in which Lionel begins to look out for Xmas.\n\nHe sees dim and cloudy outlines,\n\n[Illustration]\n\n[Illustration]\n\nacross a white expanse, dotted with sugar-plums,\n\n[Illustration]\n\nwhich led him to a little house in a garden of Xmas-Trees.\n\nThe door was opened by a stately Turkey,\n\n[Illustration]\n\n[Illustration]\n\nsupported by attendant sausages\n\nand followed by Plum pudding\n\n[Illustration]\n\n[Illustration]\n\nMince-pies,\n\nand a regiment of Crackers\n\n[Illustration]\n\n[Illustration]\n\nand a rain of Bon-bons,\n\n[Illustration]\n\nalso a Snap-dragon\n\n[Illustration]\n\nSt. George after him.\n\nbut Lionel gets through them all at last, and is invited by Jack Horner\n\n[Illustration]\n\n[Illustration]\n\nto a seat in the chimney corner,\n\nand a share of the celebrated pie,\n\n[Illustration]\n\n[Illustration]\n\nand when the pie was opened\n\nit stood and flapped its wings!\n\n[Illustration]\n\n[Illustration]\n\nA pretty dish to set before two hungry things\n\n[Illustration]\n\nKing Frost was in his Freezing House:\n\nNipping toes and noses!\n\n[Illustration]\n\n[Illustration]\n\nGreen Spring was in her sleeping car,\n\n[Illustration]\n\nTying up her posies\n\n[Illustration]\n\nThe spade was in the garden talking to the hose,\n\nAbout a little London-black that settled on the rose.\n\n[Illustration]\n\nBut Lionel takes to another branch of the black business,\n\n[Illustration]\n\n[Illustration]\n\nand, followed by his tinker\u2019s dog, he trundles his workshop.\n\nOn the common he meets a pot and a kettle in hot dispute:\n\n[Illustration]\n\n[Illustration]\n\nhaving mended their little difference with a bit of cracked looking\nglass,\n\n[Illustration]\n\nfurther on he meets with some keen customers,\n\n[Illustration]\n\nand a whole population of pots and pans,\n\nbesides sets of fire-irons\n\n[Illustration]\n\nwaiting to be set on their legs.\n\n[Illustration]\n\nFire-dogs, too, left the chimney corner,\n\n[Illustration]\n\nto follow the Tinker\u2019s dog:\n\n[Illustration]\n\nGood Luck flings her old horse shoe after him,\n\nand so, getting hold of all the old iron of the village, the Tinker\nturns Magician, transmutes it into gold and retires from business.\n\n[Illustration]","title":"Legends for Lionel: in pen and pencil","tradition":"myth-cosmogony","translated_text":null,"word_count":507}