Beyond the Giant Mountains

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BEYOND THE GIANT MOUNTAINS
TALES FROM BOHEMIA
By Adolf Wenig
Translated by Lillian P. Mokrejs

In Bohemia it seems that the Devil is a rather delightful old fellow, a little slow to be sure, a little ill-natured, but far different from the arch fiend of the more western parts of Europe, and a far more agreeable companion for boys and girls. The simple peasants outwit him at every turn and the stories of the amazing pranks they play on him will delight young and old.

The volume is illustrated with bold black and scarlet pictures and decorations which are the work of a Cech illustrator of note. The spirit of the stories and the gay, bold temperament of the people are admirably interpreted by the artist.

Beyond the
Giant Mountains

Tales From Bohemia

BEYOND THE
GIANT MOUNTAINS

TALES FROM BOHEMIA

By
ADOLF WENIG

Translated by
LILLIAN P. MOKREJS

With Illustrations by
JOSEF WENIG

BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The Riverside Press Cambridge
1923

COPYRIGHT, 1923, BY LILLIAN P. MOKREJS

The Riverside Press
CAMBRIDGE · MASSACHUSETTS
PRINTED IN THE U.S.A.

CONTENTS

How the Devil contended with Man		1
How a Soldier punished the Devils		9
About the Real and the Unreal Devils		23
The Devil’s Gifts		31
About the Devil and the Blacksmith		43
How the Devil became afraid of a Woman		53
How a Young Man served in Hell		63
The Devil’s Mill		75
How an Old Woman cheated the Devil		83

LUCY FITCH PERKINS TWIN SERIES

“I do wish all foreign children were twins!” said a little girl, lifting a happy face from a volume of Lucy Fitch Perkins’s Twin Series. “I just love them!” Since the appearance of “The Dutch Twins” some ten years ago, over a third of a million copies of the Series have been sold, and it is safe to say that more than a million children have been made happy by the doings of Kit and Kat, Taro and Take, Pierre and Pierrette, and the other small members of this famous international family that now comprises:

The Swiss Twins
The Puritan Twins	The Cave Twins
The Italian Twins	The Mexican Twins
The Spartan Twins	The Eskimo Twins
The Scotch Twins	The Irish Twins
The French Twins	The Japanese Twins
The Belgian	The Dutch Twins

The “Twins” have an honored place in every list of recommended juveniles. They have been praised by librarians, teachers, and parents. But even more important,—the children themselves love them and eagerly await every new volume.

Each volume is profusely illustrated by the author

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The thrilling adventures of three young Americans, first in a derelict steamer in the North Sea, then in a Chinese junk. Frontispiece.

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Thrilling journeys from the pages of history, introducing fresh material and told with Buchan’s customary vividness.

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“Arthur Stanwood Pier’s boys’ boarding-school stories are always good,” wrote Lewis Perry, Headmaster of the Phillips Exeter Academy. Illustrated.

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These adventures of Tom Fox and Pitamakan on their search for a lost horse make one of the best stories which the author has yet written. Illustrated.

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This new story of the American Revolution by Mr. Tomlinson is thrillingly interesting and historically accurate. Frontispiece.

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The intrepid pinto pony which has borne Bill Hart through many of his most brilliant film successes now tells the story of its dangerous and exciting life in the movies. Illustrated by James Montgomery Flagg.

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Myths and legends of Ireland retold from the ancient Gaelic.

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This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published in 1907, before the cutoff of January 1, 1931.

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This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published in 1923, before the cutoff of January 1, 1931.

The longest-living author of this work died in 1970, so this work is in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 55 years or less. This work may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

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