Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne with Illustrations by MILO WINTER

Milo Winter (1888 – 1956) was a well-known book illustrator, who produced works for editions of  Aesop's Fables, Arabian Nights, Alice in Wonderland, Gulliver's Travels, Tanglewood Tales (1913) and others.

The great rock stirred!

 

 

 

The  king, hearing the hiss of the serpents, scrambled as fast he could to the window.

 

 

 

They never once thought wether their  sails were black, white, or rainbow coloured.

They were constantly at war with the cranes.

The enemy's breath rushed out of his nose in an opstreperous hurricane and whirlwind.

It grieves me to think of them, still keeping up that weary pilgrimage.

The brindled cow never offered to lie down.

"Have you anything to tell me, little bird?"

It looked so intolerably absurd to see hogs on cushioned thrones.

 

The child besought them to go with her a little way into the fields. 

It was never extinguished by the rain or wind.

"It is the only one in the world," said the servant.

"I am going to Iolchos," answered the young man.

Jason was delighted with the oaken  image, and gave the carver no rest until it was completed.

 

She was one of these persons whose eyes are full of mystery.

Jason cought the fleece from the tree.