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PEACOCK PIE A Book of Rhymes 
by Walter de la Mare
'He told me his dreams. . . ' 
Isaac Watts 
Table of Contents 
UP AND DOWN 
The Horseman
Up and Down
Mrs. Earth
Alas, Alack
Tired Tim
Mima
The Huntsmen
The Bandog
I Can't Abear
The Dunce
Chicken
Some One
Bread and Cherries
Old Shellover
Hapless
The Little Bird
Cake and Sack
The Ship of Rio
Tillie
Jim Jay
Miss T.
The Cupboard
The Barber's
Hide and Seek 
BOYS AND GIRLS 
Then
The Window
Poor Henry
Full Moon
The Bookworm
The Quartette
Mistletoe
The Lost Shoe
The Truants 
THREE QUEER TALES 
Berries
Off the Ground
The Thief at Robin's Castle 
PLACES AND PEOPLE 
A Widow's Weeds
'Sooeep!'
Mrs. MacQueen
The Little Green 
Orchard
Poor Miss 7
Sam
Andy Battle
The Old Soldier
The 
Picture
The Little Old Cupid
King David
The Old House 
BEASTS 
Unstooping
All But Blind
Nicholas Nye
The Pigs and The 
Charcoal Burner
Five Eyes
Grim
Tit for Tat
Summer Evening
Earth Folk 
WITCHES AND FAIRIES
At the Keyhole
The Old Stone House
The Ruin
The 
Ride-by-Nights
Peak and Puke
The Changeling
The Mocking 
Fairy
Bewitched
The Honey Robbers
Longlegs
Melmillo 
EARTH AND AIR 
Trees
Silver
Nobody Knows
Wanderers
Many a Mickle
Will