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Tales
Volume 2

KENDER, GULLY DWARVES, and GNOMES

Edited by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman

featuring "Wanna Bet?"
by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
Interior Art by STEVE FABIAN
PENGUIN BOOKS

Foreword

"Tas? Tasslehoff Burrfoot!" we shout sternly, peering
down the road. "Come back with our magical time-traveling
device, you doorknob of a kender!"
"I'll come out," shouts Tas, "if you tell me some more
stories!"
"Promise?" we ask, peering behind bushes and into
ravines.
"Oh, yes. I promise!" says Tas cheerfully. "Just let me
get comfortable." There is a tremendous sound of rustling
and tree-branch cracking. Then, "All right, I'm ready. Go
ahead. I love stories, you know. Did I ever tell you about
the time I saved Sturm's life - "
Tas goes on to tell US the first story in this new
anthology set in the world of Krynn. "Snowsong," by
Nancy Varian Berberick, relates an early adventure of the
companions. Sturm and Tanis, lost in a blizzard, have only
one hope of being rescued - Tasslehoff Burrfoot!
"The Wizard's Spectacles," by Morris Simon, is a "what-
if" story. Tas always SAID he found the Glasses of Arcanist
in the dwarven kingdom. But what if ...
A storyteller tells his tales not wisely but too well in
"The Storyteller," by Barbara Siegel and Scott Siegel.
"There's a lesson you could learn from that!" we yell to
Tas, but he ignores us and goes on to relate "A Shaggy
Dog's Tail," by Danny Peary. It is a kender favorite,
undoubtedly passed down from generation to generation
although Tas, of course, swears that he knew EVERYONE
involved PERSONALLY!
Next, we hear the TRUE story of the demise of Lord
Toede in "Lord Toede's Disastrous Hunt," by Harold Bakst.
The minotaur race is the subject of "Definitions of Honor,"
by Rick Knaak. A young knight of Solamnia rides to the
rescue of a village, only to discover that his enemy
threatens more than his life.
"Hearth Cat and Winter Wren," by Nancy Varian
Berberick, tells another of the Companions' early