The Boy Apprenticed to an EnchanterIn peril of his life, Eean, the fisherman's son, must entertain the king with his tale of "narrow and close escape" overcoming the evil Zabulun with the help of the king's horses, Bird-of-Gold, the daughter of the bramble gatherer, and Merlin the Magician. |
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Page 104 - from the fourth to the third, and from the third to the second
Page 60 - I saw the hippopotami as they lay with their backs against the crimson wall of the palace. I saw the zebras stamp between the yellow wall and the blue wall, and ostriches run between the black and the white walls.
Bibliographic information
| Title | The Boy Apprenticed to an Enchanter |
| Author | Padraic Colum |
| Illustrated by | Dugald Stewart Walker |
| Publisher | Macmillan, 1920 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | Feb 7, 2007 |
| Length | 168 pages |
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