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“A keeper, intricate and entertaining . . . I read it straight through in one sitting!”?—Robert Jordan

“What a great, galloping wonder of a book?—deep and wide and witty and wise. And absolutely

impossible to put down.”?—Jane Yolen

When folk musician Janey Little finds a mysterious manuscript in an old trunk in her grandfather’s

cottage, she is swept into a dangerous realm both strange and familiar. But true magic lurks within the

pages ofThe Little Country , drawing genuine danger from across the oceans into Janey’s life, impelling

her?—armed only with her music?—toward a terrifying confrontation.

Come walk the mist-draped hills of Cornwall, come walk the ancient standing stones. Listen to the

fiddles, and the wind, and the sea. Come step with Janey Little into the pages of. . .The Little Country.

the LITTLE COUNTRY

“A must for all connoisseurs of high imagination.”?—Greg Bear

“A masterful blend of the sinister and the fantastic.”?—Julian May

“An intricately structured novel, full of a wealth of detail about music, Cornwall, and things

magical and arcane. I think it is one of de Lint’s best.”?—Patricia McKillip

Visit Charles de Lint athttp://www.cyberus.ca/~cdl

[website is now athttp://www.sfsite.com/charlesdelint/ ]

0-312-87649-1 / $15.95 ($21.95 CAN)

An Orb Book / Tom Doherty Associates, LLC

www.tor.com/ Printed in the USA

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Appendix I: A Selection of Janey Little’s

Tunes

{Page533}The following tunes were written on the fiddle, but have proved admirably suitable for a wide

ABSURD GOOD NEWS

ALL OF A MONDAY NIGHT

{Page534}BILLY’S OWN JIG

FELIXGAVIN’S REEL

THE GAFFER’S MOUZEL

THE GIRLS OF EDMONTON

HER TWO CHAIRS

{Page535}JOHN WOOD’S MAZURKA

THE MEIKLEJOHN JIG

THE MEN-AN-TOL WALTZ

THE NEW TASSELED SHOES

THE NINE BLIND HARPERS

{Page536}SHE’S TOO FAST FOR ME

STARGAZY PIE

THE STONESS BARN

THE TINKER’S BLACK KETTLE

Appendix II: A Brief Glossary of Unfamiliar

Terms

{Page539}I’m indebted to conversations with Phil and Audrey Wallis, as well as Douglas Tregenza’s

Departed Days: Mousehole Remembered (Dyllanstow Truran, 1984) and Ben Batten’sOld Newlyn

Speech (self-published, 1984) for the following terms:

agro?—short for aggravation

ansum?—handsome

bagle?—a troublemaker

brill?—short for brilliant

caboleen?—rounded stone used as an anchor

carker?—little cork boat with a slate or iron keel

come ‘pon that?—so far as that goes

dog in a tayser?—square peg in a round hole

emperent?—cheeky, pert

fore and after?—clergyman

garm?—expression of surprise, wonder

kitey?—a bit loony

la Ley!?—exclamation

making some crant?—creating a fuss

oh raw we?—exclamation

sparking?—courting

tatchy?—irritable

tee-ta-taw?—a vaguely critical or mocking comment

that do belong?—that’s unusual

{Page540}three scats behind?—too slow, late

tuck-net?—small net used to lift up pilchard in a seine

two-deckers?—any four-footed animal; sailors call them this rather than by their common names to

ward against bad luck

up country?—the rest of England

wam?—very finicky person

well, I go to sea?—surprise, astonishment

white choker?—clergyman

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Author’s Note

PART ONE – The Hidden People

The Quarrelsome Piper

Life Is All Chequered

The Sailor’s Return

The Creeping Mouse

The Hunt

What the Devil Ails You?

Off She Goes!

Pull the Knife and Stick It Again

The Dogs Among the Bushes

The Unfortunate Cup of Tea

The Wheels of the World

The Pipers Despair

The Moving Bog

Four Bare Legs Together

Silly Old Man

The Conundrum

PART TWO – The Lost Music

When Sick Is It Tea You Want?

Touch Me If You Dare

Border Spirit

The Bargain Is Over

Leppadumdowledum

Constant Billy

The Man Who Died and Rose Again

So There I Was

Tottering Hame

Fortune My Foe

Kick the World Before You

The Eagle’s Whistle

The Touchstone

Some Say the Devil Is Dead

Coda

Absurd Good News

Contentment Is Wealth

Appendix I: A Selection of Janey Little’s Tunes

Appendix II: A Brief Glossary of Unfamiliar Terms

This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are either fictitious or are

used fictitiously.

THE LITTLE COUNTRY

This book is printed on acid-free paper.

An Orb Edition

Published by Tom Doherty Associates, LLC

175 Fifth Avenue

New York, NY 10010

www.tor.com

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

De Lint, Charles.

The little country / Charles de Lint.?—1st Orb ed.

p. cm.

“A Tom Doherty Associates book.”

ISBN 0-312-87649-1

1. Cornwall (England : County)?—Fiction. 2. Fairies?—fiction. I.

Title.

PR9199.3.D357 L58 2001

813’.54?—dc21

2001016388

First Tor Edition: March 1993

First Orb Edition: April 2001

Printed in the United States of America

0 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

scan, conversion, proofing by scripter

v1.0 July 2004

Author’s Note

{Page11}The novel that follows is a work of fiction. All characters and events in this book are fictitious

and any resemblance to actual persons living or dead is purely coincidental.

The tune titles heading each chapter are all traditional, except for “Leppadumdowledum,” which was

composed by Donal Lunny; “So There I Was,” composed by John Kirkpatrick; and “Absurd Good

News.” Musicians interested in tracking down the tunes should look for them in the usual sources?

—tunebooks, old and new, but especially in the repertoire of musicians, whether recorded or in live

performance and sessions; those tunes credited to Janey Little have been transcribed and can be found in

the appendix at the end of the novel for the hopeful enjoyment of interested players.

A work such as this doesn’t grow out of a vacuum.The Little Country had its origin in sources too

exhaustive to list with any real thoroughness, but I can still pinpoint its original spark: many an evening in

the early seventies spent listening to my friend Don Flamanck telling stories of Cornwall as he

remembered it. When my wife, Mary Ann, and I finally went to Cornwall in October of 1988 to research

this book’s settings, we found it to be everything Don had promised it would be, and more.

Thanks are due to Don, first and foremost, for that inspiration, and also to Phil and Audrey Wallis of

Mousehole for more wonderful stories and their hospitality; to Bernard Evans of Newlyn for filling me in

on the local music scene; to Ben Batten, Christopher Bice, Des Hannigan, John Hocking, Robert Hunt,

John and Nettie Pender, Derek Tangye, Douglas Tregenza, Ken Ward, G. Pawley White, and a

multitude of others too numerous to list here for background material; to Colin Wilson for his logical

explorations of those things{Page 12}that defy logic; to those many, many traditional musicians, again too

numerous to mention, who keep the music alive and give it new life with each note they play; to those

musicians who attend the local music sessions here in Ottawa (“All of a Monday Night”) and by their

enthusiasm keep my own playing in right good fettle; and last, though not least, to my wife, Mary Ann, a

mean mandolin player in her own right, for her support, both musical and literary, and for her love that I

could not do without.

?—Charles de Lint

{Page13}myself, a brat who . . .

couldn’t figure numbers worth a damn

was always a chancer

and given three lines to add I’d put the middle row

down as the answer

but I could read all day if I could get away with it

and all night too with a flashlight under the covers

of that Green Man . . . or of Merlin of the borders. . . .

?—ROBIN WILLIAMSON,

from “Five Denials on Merlin’s Grave”

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