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Produced by Al Haines.





[Illustration: "PERCIVALE SAW A SHIP COMING TOWARD THE LAND."]




                             THE KNIGHTS OF
                            THE ROUND TABLE

                        _STORIES OF KING ARTHUR
                          AND THE HOLY GRAIL_


                                   BY

                          WILLIAM HENRY FROST



                ILLUSTRATED BY SYDNEY RICHMOND BURLEIGH



                                NEW YORK
                        CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
                                  1897




                          COPYRIGHT, 1897, BY
                        CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS



                             TROW DIRECTORY
                    PRINTING AND BOOKBINDING COMPANY
                                NEW YORK




                           BY THE SAME AUTHOR

                Each 1 vol., 12mo, Illustrated by SIDNEY
                       R. BURLEIGH. Price, $1.50

                     THE KNIGHTS OF THE ROUND TABLE
                        THE COURT OF KING ARTHUR
                         THE WAGNER STORY BOOK

                                   To
                               MY FATHER
                           John Dudley Frost




                               *CONTENTS*


                              *CHAPTER I*

On Glastonbury Tor


                              *CHAPTER II*

How We Discovered Camelot


                             *CHAPTER III*

The Boy from the Forest


                              *CHAPTER IV*

The Queen's Robing-Room


                              *CHAPTER V*

"Camelot, that is in English Winchester"


                              *CHAPTER VI*

The Boat on the River


                             *CHAPTER VII*

The Giants' Dance


                             *CHAPTER VIII*

On the Edge of Lyonnesse


                              *CHAPTER IX*

The Siege Perilous


                              *CHAPTER X*

Gawain


                              *CHAPTER XI*

Lancelot


                             *CHAPTER XII*

Bors


                             *CHAPTER XIII*

Percivale


                             *CHAPTER XIV*

Galahad


                              *CHAPTER XV*

The City of Sarras


                             *CHAPTER XVI*

Stories of Strange Stones


                             *CHAPTER XVII*

"And on the Mere the Wailing Died Away"


                            *CHAPTER XVIII*

The Abbess and the Monk


                             *CHAPTER XIX*

"Rexque Futurus"




                        *LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS*


"Percivale saw a ship coming toward the land."... _Frontispiece_

Glastonbury Tor

"As he played a storm began to rise"

The abbot's kitchen

"The city and the fortress of the rabbits"

"Kay's horse galloped back alone" (missing from book)

The Tower of London

The Round Table at Winchester

Winchester Cathedral

Stonehenge

St. Michael's Mount

The Land's End

"The bright spot on the road grew smaller and smaller" (missing from
book)

"A pasture where a hundred and fifty bulls were feeding"

"Through woods where there were scarcely any paths to follow"

"He saw the water before him and a ship"

"'Knight,' she said, 'what are you doing here?'"

"'It was King Evelake's shield'"

"'I cut off my hair and wove it into a girdle'"

The Dove with the golden censer

The Cheesewring

St. Joseph's Chapel, Glastonbury Abbey

"The two great waves broke upon each other"

The Choir, Glastonbury Abbey

"On toward the gold and the purple in the west"




                       *SOME OLDER STORY-TELLERS*


There is really no need, perhaps, for me to tell you that all these
stories have been told before.  But, though you know it already, I like
to say it again, because I can never say often enough how grateful I am
to those who told the world first of Arthur, of Guinevere, of Lancelot,
and of Gawain; of Galahad, of Percivale, and of Percivale's sister; of
the Siege Perilous and of the Holy Grail.  If you do not now count Sir
Thomas Malory a dear friend, as I do, learn to do it, and you will be
the better for it. I do not know who made those wonderful tales the
Mabinogion, but I know who gave them to us in our own language--Lady
Charlotte Guest.  I wish that I knew whom to thank for "The Romance of
Merlin" and for the story of "Gawain and the Green Knight." And there
were many other noble story-tellers of the old time who passed away and
left us no knowledge of themselves and not even their names to call them
by.  But they left us their stories, and if anything from us can reach
them where they are, surely gratitude can, and that they must have from
every one of us who loves a