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First published in 1960 by William Collins Sons & Company Ltd
This edition published by HarperCollins Children’s Books in 2010
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CONTENTS
12. In the Cave of the Svartmoot
13. “Where No Svart Will Ever Tread”
In every prayer I offer up, Alderley, and all belonging to it, will be ever a living thought in my heart.
REV. EDWARD STANLEY: 1837
At dawn one still October day in the long ago of the world, across the hill of Alderley, a farmer from Mobberley was riding to Macclesfield fair.
The morning was dull, but mild; light mists bedimmed his
