Legends for Lionel, Walter Crane
Legends for Lionel
Walter Crane
Category: Children
Genres: Fairytale,Poetry,Fantasy
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This fun story is about a boy named Lionel who goes on a magical adventure in winter. As he explores, he meets Jack Frost and sees a big turkey opening a door, with sausages, plum pudding, and mince pies following behind! With each step, Lionel discovers more wonders and has a lot of fun in this exciting, make-believe world.

Legends for Lionel

In pen & pencil

by
Walter Crane

Legends for Lionel

Preface

ALL Lions have tails: some — like the one here — remarkably long ones. Some Lionels I know have “Legends” instead. The Lionel for which these were made is a great devourer of them, and he also has an appetite for pictures to paint. This book of sketches, the offspring of the odd half hours of winter evenings, was originally intended strictly for home consumption. One thing, however, leads to another, just as the sketches did, following one by one as fancy led, till they filled the book, and this book falling under the eye of Messrs Cassell (through the voluntary offices of a sympathetic and enthusiastic friend) “Legends for Lionel” may become legends for legions of Lionels.

That both Lionels and others may get as much fun out of the book as did its own father — and Lionel’s — is the wish of both, at any rate.

Walter Crane.
Aug: 1887

Jack Frost sends his Herald

Legends for Lionel

without their leaves,

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and just as the World is thinking of skating —

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comes Thaw;

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followed by Fog, in which Lionel begins to look out for Xmas.

Legends for Lionel

He sees dim and cloudy outlines,

Legends for Lionel

across a white expanse, dotted with sugar-plums,

Legends for Lionel

which led him to a little house in a garden of Xmas-Trees.

Legends for Lionel

The door was opened by a stately Turkey,

Legends for Lionel

supported by attendant sausages

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and followed by Plum pudding

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Mince-pies,

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and a regiment of Crackers

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and a rain of Bon-bons,

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also a Snap-dragon

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St. George after him.

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but Lionel gets through them all at last, and is invited by Jack Horner

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to a seat in the chimney corner,

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and a share of the celebrated pie,

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and when the pie was opened

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it stood and flapped its wings!

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A pretty dish to set before two hungry things

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King Frost was in his Freezing House:

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Nipping toes and noses!

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Green Spring was in her sleeping car,

Legends for Lionel