Ballads

By Stevenson, Robert Louis

Book Id: WPLBN0000661772
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Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	Ballads
Author:	Stevenson, Robert Louis
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Language:	English
Subject:	Fiction, Literature, Literature & drama
Collections:	Classic Literature Collection, Penn State University's Electronic Classics Series Collection
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Publisher:	Penn State University's Electronic Classics


Citation APA MLA Chicago Louis Stevenson, B. R. (n.d.). Ballads. Retrieved from http://self.gutenberg.org/

Excerpt
Introduction: This tale, of which I have not consciously changed a single feature, I received from tradition. It is highly popular through all the country of the eight Tevas, the clan to which Rahero belonged; and particularly in Taiarapu, the windward peninsula of Tahiti, where he lived. I have heard from end to end two versions; and as many as five different persons have helped me with details. There seems no reason why the tale should not be true.

Table of Contents
Contents THE SONG OF RAHERO ............................................................................4 I. THE SLAYING OF TAMATEA .............................................................................................................................. 5 II. THE VENGING OF TAMATEA ......................................................................................................................... 13 III. RAHERO ............................................................................................................................................................. 22 THE FEAST OF FAMINE ..........................................................................29 I. THE PRIEST?S VIGIL.......................................................................................................................................... 29 II. THE LOVERS ...................................................................................................................................................... 32 III. THE FEAST ........................................................................................................................................................ 37 IV. THE RAID............................................................................................................................................................ 43 TICONDEROGA..........................................................................................47 TICONDEROGA....................................................................................................................................................... 47 I. THE SAYING OF THE NAME ............................................................................................................................. 48 II. THE SEEKING OF THE NAME ........................................................................................................................ 54 III. THE PLACE OF THE NAME ........................................................................................................................... 57 HEATHER ALE ...........................................................................................60 CHRISTMAS AT SEA .................................................................................64