The Horse Shoe The True Legend of St. Dunstan and the Devil, Showing How the Horse-Shoe Came to Be a Charm against Witchcraft
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The Horse Shoe The True Legend of St. Dunstan and the Devil, Showing How the Horse-Shoe Came to Be a Charm against Witchcraft - Edward G. Flight
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Title: The True Legend of St. Dunstan and the Devil
Author: Edward G. Flight
Release Date: November 8, 2004 [eBook #13978]
Language: English
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THE HORSE SHOE
THE TRUE LEGEND OF
ST. DUNSTAN AND THE DEVIL;
SHOWING HOW THE HORSE-SHOE CAME TO BE A CHARM AGAINST WITCHCRAFT.
BY EDWARD G. FLIGHT.
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS
BY GEORGE CRUIKSHANK,
ENGRAVED BY JOHN THOMPSON.
THIRD EDITION.
LONDON:
1871.
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION.
HE success of the first edition of this little work, compels its author to say a few words on the issue of a second. Expressive silence
would now be in him the excessive impudence of not acknowledging, as he respectfully does acknowledge, that success to be greatly ascribable to the eminent artists who have drawn and engraved the illustrations.
A man's worst wish for his enemy is that he might write a book,
is a generally-received notion, of whose accuracy it is hoped there is no impertinence in suggesting a doubt. To reflect on having contributed, however slightly, to the innocent amusement of others, without giving pain to any, is alone an enjoyment well worth writing for. But when even so unpretending a trifle as this is, can, besides, bring around its obscure author fresh and valuable friendships, the hackneyed exclamation would appear more intelligible if rendered thus: "Oh, that