Labels:book | bulletin board | mountain | poster | reckoner OCR: CHAPTER IN WHICH WE LEARN OF THE VILI AGF OF WALL AND OF THE CURIOUS THING THAT OCCURS THERE EVERY NINE YEARS here was once a young man who wished tr gain his Heart' Desire And while that is, beginnings go not entirely novel (for every tale about every young man there ever wa or will be could start in a similar manner there was much about this voung man and what happened to him that wa unusu- although even he never knew the whole of it The tale started as many tales have started in Wall. The town of Wall stands today, it has stood for six hun- dred years on a high jut of granite amidst a small forest woodland The house of are square and old, built of grey stone with dark slate roofs and high chimneys; taking advantage of every inch of space on the rock the houses lean into each other, are ...
