The Falconer and the Whorlton Elves

Prepare to be delighted and delectated by another tale from that master wordsmith of the North Riding of Yorkshire: Richard Blakeborough (1850-1918), writer, poet, and dramatist. Now, I did have a notion to modernize this story for you, but I quickly found myself struggling by how to handle some of the terms, such as "dark-faced" and "drawf," which are no ...

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