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Title: The Dragon Tamers
Author: E Nesbit (1858-1924)
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Language: English
Date first posted: May 2007
Date most recently updated: May 2007



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"The Dragon Tamers" originally appeared in the Strand Magazine for August
1899. It was collected in The Book of Dragons (1900).


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The Dragon Tamers
by

E Nesbit
There was once an old, old castle--it was so old that its I walls and towers and turrets and gateways and
arches had crumbled to ruins, and of all its old splendour there were only two little rooms left; and it was
here that John the blacksmith had set up his forge. He was too poor to live in a proper house, and no one
asked any rent for the rooms in the ruin, because all the lords of the castle were dead and gone this many
a year. So there John blew his bellows, and hammered his iron, and did all the work which came his way.
This was not much, because most of the trade went to the mayor of the town, who was also a blacksmith
in quite a large way of business, and had his huge forge facing the square of the town, and had twelve
apprentices, all hammering like a nest of woodpeckers, and twelve journeymen to order the apprentices
about, and a patent forge and a self-acting hammer and electric bellows, and all things handsome about
him. So that of course the townspeople, whenever they wanted a horse shod or a shaft mended, went to