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tofight,so they eventually wander off arm in arm ...Excellent new illustrations by Peggy Fortnum.'  \nBooks and Bookmen  \nMiss Fortnum's drawings are delightful and childrenwill thoroughly enjoy this first-rate presentation of anold story.The School Librarian  \nThis story will give great pleasure both to children andparent.'Birmingham Post  \nAlso available in Fontana Young Lions  \nBorn FreeJoy Adamson  \nJeremiahin the Dark Woods Janet and Allan AhlbergThe Witch of Monopoly Manor Margaret Stuart BarryThe King ofthe Copper Mountains Paul BiegelHurry Home Candy Meindert DeJongThe Donkey Rustlers Gerald DurrellThe Magician Who Kept a Pub Dorothy EdwardsPrivate,Keep Out!Gwen GrantFollow That Bus!Pat HutchinsMy Best Fiend Sheila LavelleThe Demon Bike Rider Robert LeesonChallenge in the Dark Robert LeesonMind Your Own Business Michael RosenThe Ice Palace Robert SwindellsRabbiting On Kit Wright  \n# The ReluctantDragon\n\nIllustrated by Peggy Fortnum  \nThe Reluctant Dragon is anextract from Dream Dayfirst published by The Bodley Head in 1898First published in Fontana Young Lions 19728Grafton Street,London W1X3LAEighthimpression January 1986  \nFontana Young Lions is an imprint ofFontana Paperbacks,a divisionof the Collins Publishing Group  \nAllrights reservedIllustrations copyright ◎ The Bodley Head 1959  \nMade and printed in Great Britain byWilliam Collins Sons&Co.Ltd,Glasgow  \nConditions ofSale  \nThis book is sold subject to the conditionthat it shall not,by way oftrade or otherwise,be lent,re-sold,hired out orotherwise circulatedwithout the publisher's prior consent in any form ofbinding or cover other than that in which it ispublished and without a similar conditionincluding this condition being imposedon the subsequent purchaser  \n瘦兰)■声  \n# The Reluctant Dragon\n\nLong ago-might have been hundreds ofyears ago-in a cottage half-way between thisvillage and yonder shoulder of the Downs upthere,a shepherd lived with his wife and theirlittle son.Now the 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