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Daylight folly revealed to the young man the character of his entertainer
When he lookeu apon him, he had the icy visage of Peboan.1 Streams began
to flow from hia eyes. As the sun increased, he grew less and less in statue
and anon had melted completely away. Nothing remained on the place of
his lodge-fire "but the miskodeed* a small white flower, with a pink border
which is one of the earliest species of northern plants, *
^The Undying Head'is a rather long tale, but it makes up in
weird conceits, fairy-tale prodigies, variety of incident, and energy of
movement, for what it lacks in brevity.3
1 Winter * The trailing M butus. 8 See Appendix D.