Coward

^i^Jir Toby Jingle was a knight who had done every brave thing from jabbing giants to trouncing trolls. Year after year ghastly creatures would slink out of Grimghast Forest and terrorize the peaceful villages. And year after year Sir Toby would send them howling and limping back.

Jix WAS THE KIND of evening the little girl liked best. She stood at the window on this last night of October and looked out on the world shivering on the edge of winter. Cold wind rattled the dead flower stalks in the garden and scraped the maples' naked branches, sending the last of their dry...