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LAUGHING, lucky Four-Leafed Clover
Is a most atrocious rover;
Doesn’t stay long in one place,
Goes and never leaves a trace.

Marion T. Ross (1881-1937)

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Happy St. Patrick’s Day🍀

Sharing some leprechaun images from my beloved and worn copy of FAERIES by Brian Froud and Alan Lee that I’ve had since I was 12.

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The nursery rhyme, Mary Had a Little Lamb was a true story. In 1815, nine-year-old Mary Sawyer had a little lamb that followed her to the one-room schoolhouse, Redstone.

Fellow student, John Roulstone, wrote the famous poem about the event for Mary.

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When Celtic Finn Mccool sailed with his men their ship reached a mysterious island that was as beautitul as dangerous.

Birds were singing and in the dark forest was a well with a curiously wrought drinking-horn.

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'Out with you upon the wild waves, children of the king!
Henceforth your cries shall be with the flocks of birds.'
-Joseph Jacobs, The Fate of the Children of Lir.

🎨P.J. Lynch

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She goes from Saint to S-ain't real quick.

Ascendance of a Bookworm/Honzuki no Gekokujou Fanart

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Darklings!

Sam, one's other favourite cat, chose Frank Dean's "Irish Coast" (c 1890) for Conrad the Crow's background in this week's wallpaper to fly over while we collect tales from the insular Celts together with & this week!

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"There's my little dog! I always thought he was real. Fancy him being here, when I've looked all over the sands and called and whistled every day for him!"

On Roverandom, a story wrote in 1925 to console his son who lost his toy dog on the beach.

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A about my palace guard, soon to be awake and on duty, so watch out. Illustration by Complete poem, "Three at link: https://t.co/QZkHPKVWVD

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"Fear and flee the wolf; for, worst of all, the wolf may be more than he seems.” (Angela Carter)

🎨 Mori Raito

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‘There is a vast melancholy in the canticles of the wolves, melancholy infinite as the forest, endless as these long nights of winter and yet that ghastly sadness, that mourning for their own…’
—Angela Carter

🎨 Susan Seddon Boulet

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After seeing drawing Streber with glasses and watching the thing spread like oil I couldn't help but appreciating this little bookworm too 🪱

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Thank you so much for the the support and starting the bid 🙏

Bookworm Fish is now at live auction

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