Four-and-twenty blackbirds
By: Edward Thomas ; with illustrations by Margery Gill.
Contributors: Gill, Margery, ill.
Publisher: Bodley Head
Published: 1965
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 94
Subjects: Fairy tales -- England; Children's stories, English; Fairy tales; Short stories
Description: Twenty-four short stories set in the English countryside, which give new interpretations of the origins of such well-known proverbial sayings as "Never say die" and "Look before you leap."
Notes: "Four-and-twenty blackbirds was first published in a small edition by Duckworth in 1915. The order of the stories has been changed for this edition"--P. [4]