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Title: The Trumpeter of Krakow
Date of first publication: 1928
Author: Eric Philbrook Kelly (1884-1960)
Date first posted: Feb. 6, 2020
Date last updated: Feb. 6, 2020
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Copyright, 1928,
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.
Twenty Seventh Printing, 1957
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
TO
EDWARD LOWELL KELLY
LOUVILLE HOWARD MERRILL
CONTENTS
PAGE
The Broken Note3
CHAPTER
IThe Man Who Wouldn’t Sell His Pumpkin9
IIKrakow18
IIIThe Alchemist36
IVThe Good Jan Kanty51
VIn the Street of the Pigeons63
VIThe Tower of the Trumpeter76
VIIIn the Alchemist’s Loft85
VIIIPeter of the Button Face96
IXButton-Face Peter Attacks113
XThe Evil One Takes a Hand123
XIThe Attack on the Church133
XIIElzbietka Misses the Broken Note147
XIIIThe Great Tarnov Crystal161
XIVA Great Fire Rages179
XVKing Kazimir Jagiello192
XVIThe Last of the Great Tarnov Crystal209
Epilogue.The Broken Note214
ILLUSTRATIONS
The Trumpeter of KrakowFrontispiece
(This Illustration was Missing from Book when scanned)
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Guild Towers in the Old City Wall19
The Church of Our Lady Mary and the Cloth Hall27
Joseph Caught at the Dog’s CollarFacing30
The Court of the University of Krakow53
St. Katherine’s Church99
The Romanesque Towers of St. Andrew’s Church103
The Florian Gate135
The Tower of the Town Hall165
The Royal Palace of the Kings189
He Hurled the Crystal Into the AirFacing193
The Court of the Royal Palace205
Ancient Oath of the Krakow Trumpeters
“I swear on my honor as a Pole, as a servant of the King of the Polish people, that I will faithfully and unto the death, if there be need, sound upon the trumpet the Heynal in honor of Our Lady each hour in the tower of the church which bears Her Name.”