Lud-in-the-Mist
                                   
                           by Hope Mirrlees





                         First published 1926

                    Preview electronic edition 1992

                     Full electronic edition 1993
  

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                      To the Memory of My Father





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                           Table of Contents



              I.  Master Nathaniel Chanticleer
         
             II.  The Duke Who Laughed Himself Off a Throne and Other
                    Traditions of Dorimare
         
            III.  The Beginning of Trouble
         
             IV.  Endymion Leer Prescribes for Ranulph
         
              V.  Ranulph Goes to the Widow Gibberty's Farm
         
             VI.  The Wind in the Crabapple Blossoms
         
            VII.  Master Ambrose Honeysuckle Chases a Wild Goose and
                    Has a Vision
         
           VIII.  Endymion Leer Looks Frightened, and a Breach Is Made
                    in an Old Friendship
         
             IX.  Panic and the Silent People
         
              X.  Hempie's Song
         
             XI.  A Stronger Antidote than Reason
         
            XII.  Dame Marigold Hears the Tap of a Woodpecker
         
           XIII.  What Master Nathaniel and Master Ambrose Found in
                    the Guildhall
         
            XIV.  Dead in the Eye of the Law
         
             XV.  "Ho, Ho, Hoh!"
         
            XVI.  The Widow Gibberty's Trial
         
           XVII.  The World-in-Law
         
          XVIII.  Mistress Ivy Peppercorn
         
            XIX.  The Berries of Merciful Death
         
             XX.  Watching the Cows
         
            XXI.  The Old Goatherd
         
           XXII.  Who Is Portunus?
         
          XXIII.  The Northern Fire-Box and Dead Men's Tales
         
           XXIV.  Belling the Cat
         
            XXV.  The Law Crouches and Springs
         
           XXVI.  "Neither Trees Nor Men"
         
          XXVII.  The Fair in the Elfin Marches
         
         XXVIII.  "By the Sun, Moon and Stars and the Golden Apples of
                    the West"
         
           XXIX.  A Message Comes to Hazel and the First Swallow to
                    Dame Marigold
         
            XXX.  Master Ambrose Keeps His Vow
         
           XXXI.  The Initiate
         
          XXXII.  Conclusion
         
         








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                    The Sirens stand, as it would seem, to
                    the ancient and the modern, for the
                    impulses in life as yet immoralised,
                    imperious longings, ecstasies, whether
                    of love or art, or philosophy, magical
                    voices calling to a man from his "Land
                    of Heart's Desire," and to which if he
                    hearken it may be that he will return no
                    more -- voices, too, which, whether a
                    man sail by or stay to hearken, still
                    sing on.
                    
                                            Jane Harrison.